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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2008 21:08:36 GMT
Went into lovely Plaistow station this morning, thought "oh I'd better get my pre-pay on" and walked up to the machine, couched my lobster card upon the reader only to be met with the following instruction and the option to start again. It worked when I tried a moment later though. Can anybody shed some light on what this means? |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2008 21:33:58 GMT
Maybe the Machine was in the end stage of being serviced by the clerk?
Known it to happen a few times, causing pax to panic!
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Post by cetacean on Feb 12, 2008 21:41:07 GMT
"Prestige" was the project name for Oyster, if that's what you're wondering about.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2008 1:52:55 GMT
For some reason (no doubt related to the original project name, as pointed out above), this is the message that occasionally comes up when a card cannot be read correctly. As you discovered, removing it and trying it again generally works unless the chip in your card is completely knackered!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2008 10:47:56 GMT
This is also the message you get when you swipe another RFID card that works on the same frequency as, but isn't actually an Oyster card!!! ( as i discovered when i accidentally tried to top up the door access card for my office...)  |
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Post by Tomcakes on Feb 15, 2008 11:00:02 GMT
Only yesterday I tried to put my Oyster card in a Chip & Pin reader, and about a week ago tried to use it on a bus! I've yet to try and top up my debit card though.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2008 11:54:15 GMT
Only yesterday I tried to put my Oyster card in a Chip & Pin reader, and about a week ago tried to use it on a bus! I've yet to try and top up my debit card though. Someone managed to get theirs into the paper ticket slot of a gate yesterday. Twit! We couldn't move it backwards so we had to keep moving it forwards, which nearly snapped it given how much it normally curves a paper ticket. |
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Post by railtechnician on Feb 15, 2008 12:03:12 GMT
Only yesterday I tried to put my Oyster card in a Chip & Pin reader, and about a week ago tried to use it on a bus! I've yet to try and top up my debit card though. Erm......why would you want to remove it from its wallet? keeping it in its wallet is probably the best way to protect it, and also to protect it from you ;D |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2008 12:33:08 GMT
Only yesterday I tried to put my Oyster card in a Chip & Pin reader, and about a week ago tried to use it on a bus! I've yet to try and top up my debit card though. Erm......why would you want to remove it from its wallet? keeping it in its wallet is probably the best way to protect it, and also to protect it from you ;D haha, its when people put it in the middle of their wallet so when they go to use it it dose not pick up then they end up paying HAHA makes me laugh |
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Post by Chris M on Feb 15, 2008 12:45:39 GMT
I keep my Oyster Card in my (now-expired) Young Persons Railcard wallet, along with my paper NR tickets. Sometimes I have so many tickets in there that it blocks the RFID signal until I turn it over so the tickets aren't between it and the reader. Are the hand readers less sensitive than the gate-mounted ones, as a couple of times I've had to take the card out of the wallet completely before it can be read? This is also the message you get when you swipe another RFID card that works on the same frequency as, but isn't actually an Oyster card!!! ( as i discovered when i accidentally tried to top up the door access card for my office...) Why bother with separate cards? My Oyster card is programmed to be my door access card for the SUCS* computer room. *Swansea University Computer Society, of which I'm a life member |
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Post by version3point1 on Feb 15, 2008 14:08:24 GMT
I keep my Oyster Card in my (now-expired) Young Persons Railcard wallet, along with my paper NR tickets. Sometimes I have so many tickets in there that it blocks the RFID signal until I turn it over so the tickets aren't between it and the reader. Kind of reminds me of how my Oyster card wallet was when I was still at school.   I ended up stitching mine up where the middle was because I didn't want to change it (sadly, attached because it was the first generation wallet with the red roundel on...  ) Probably. They only run on rechargeable batteries (when you can actually find a charger to charge them up with) wheras the gates obviously have a continuous power supply. This is also the message you get when you swipe another RFID card that works on the same frequency as, but isn't actually an Oyster card!!! ( as i discovered when i accidentally tried to top up the door access card for my office...) I get a lot of the same problem, what with all the bods from Canary Wharf keeping their keycards/Oyster cards/every sort of card you can think of in a plastic case dangling round their necks. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2008 14:59:19 GMT
The general abuse of Oyster cards I see disturbs me, really. The number of people who manage to press it on the reader and bend the card right back in the process... and the ones who slam it on harder and harder when it doesn't work the first time. You just know they're going to be the ones a few weeks down the line blowing up at a CSA who's telling them they need to get the card replaced, or buy a paper ticket, before they can travel, screaming that they paid £600 for it and why won't it *work*...!
My favourite was the bloke who couldn't get his card to read.. I opened up the wallet.. and the card was in three pieces. "Oh.." he said. "Won't it work like that?"
Er.... no.
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Post by suncloud on Feb 15, 2008 16:36:05 GMT
Same here, it's at the back of the middle section so I know where it is...
I was working at one of the commonwealth games venues in Manchester in 2002 and had a number of different I.D.s around our necks. On top of that I then had charts in an A3 poly pocket also around my neck for quick reference. Add to that the several layers of clothing that were either on me or around my waist (to cater for the vagaries of the Manchester summer) I must have looked a sight!
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Post by Tomcakes on Feb 15, 2008 16:56:21 GMT
I had transferred my Oyster card to my normal wallet (I managed to bring my Oyster wallet up north but not the card itself), and it was in the same pocket as my debit card, uni catering card and bus card. Hence I ended up sticking my Oyster card on top of the bus ticket machine...
Unfortunately, the fact that the system is screwy and built on the concept of "the passenger is always in the wrong" is always going to inflame tensions - and whilst I don't condone it I can understand how annoying it is to be told "You'll have to ring the helpline..." when people would prefer it if they could go to the ticket office and have it sorted on the spot.
A funny one is tourists who look confused, see some suits waving their Oysters at the readers, then try the same with their tickets ;D.
Overcrowded wallets... my old YPR one got to the stage where you needed tweezers to extract a ticket from it!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2008 18:50:51 GMT
When we first got our Oysters, I made the point of shoving mine up my sleeve, and snapping my fingers over the reader! Should have seen how many tourists tried the same action... ;D
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2008 22:59:35 GMT
When we first got our Oysters, I made the point of shoving mine up my sleeve, and snapping my fingers over the reader! Should have seen how many tourists tried the same action... ;D YES! I DID THAT! Glad I'm not the only one who got bizarre looks from SAs |
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Post by londonboy on Feb 21, 2008 15:14:33 GMT
Us London Underground Staff got our Oysters First about Summer 2001 IIRC the first time i used it on the bus the driver thought i was trying to dodge my fare,
The looks we used to get off of passengers when their magnetic tickets wouldn't work the gates and we waved our Staff oyster passes over the readers to let them out, LOL
some of then used to say "Oh are we meant to wave them over that yellow thing now"
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