Did everyone's eticket work?

[splott parker]

Re: Did everyone's eticket work?

Change is coming. Change is good.

Why do older people fight change so much?

We’re not fighting change per se, it’s change for change’s sake that’s annoying. Serious question.....do you agree that the season ticket card that we’ve had since the old season ticket book (now that was a change for the good) was/is ok? Mobile ‘phones are marvellous devices, yes, but they can be temperamental, they do occasionally fail. In fact I was on a train journey yesterday praying my ‘phone, which was on red, wouldn’t conk out should I need to show the tickets (schoolboy error, didn’t print them off).

Hopefully our new cards will be here shortly, to me it’s a much simpler way that doesn’t need changing. Cash has been around for centuries and has worked well, you go out with £100, your taxi home is a tenner, when you’ve spent £90 it’s time for home. Go out with just a card, the brakes are off, you don’t go home and could well up in tears checking your bank balance the next day.

I go down the City with the same two mates I’ve gone with for years, we have a cheaper few pints before and after the game but have one at half time in the ground. We drink in rounds but the one in the ground, due to the extra cost of a beer, we lob the cash in to whichever of us is going to the bar. Ok, one of us will soon have to use a card by the looks, say it’s a fiver a pint, we’ll give him a fiver each. Even though he’s had the tenner, it never goes back in the bank, so according to his account that pint has cost him £15. Or do we all queue individually, causing more congestion, to pay with our own cards? This loyalty card thing will mean everyone buying individually at every outlet, not a good idea.

[dembethewarrior]

Re: Did everyone's eticket work?

We’re not fighting change per se, it’s change for change’s sake that’s annoying. Serious question.....do you agree that the season ticket card that we’ve had since the old season ticket book (now that was a change for the good) was/is ok? Mobile ‘phones are marvellous devices, yes, but they can be temperamental, they do occasionally fail. In fact I was on a train journey yesterday praying my ‘phone, which was on red, wouldn’t conk out should I need to show the tickets (schoolboy error, didn’t print them off).

Hopefully our new cards will be here shortly, to me it’s a much simpler way that doesn’t need changing. Cash has been around for centuries and has worked well, you go out with £100, your taxi home is a tenner, when you’ve spent £90 it’s time for home. Go out with just a card, the brakes are off, you don’t go home and could well up in tears checking your bank balance the next day.

I go down the City with the same two mates I’ve gone with for years, we have a cheaper few pints before and after the game but have one at half time in the ground. We drink in rounds but the one in the ground, due to the extra cost of a beer, we lob the cash in to whichever of us is going to the bar. Ok, one of us will soon have to use a card by the looks, say it’s a fiver a pint, we’ll give him a fiver each. Even though he’s had the tenner, it never goes back in the bank, so according to his account that pint has cost him £15. Or do we all queue individually, causing more congestion, to pay with our own cards? This loyalty card thing will mean everyone buying individually at every outlet, not a good idea.

You can print your train tickets at the station, or charge your phone. That's not the phones fault is it?

Maybe the cards needed updating, I've not idea how long they can last, and as it goes they needed to upgrade them to introduce other features.

People don't have to use their phone to get in do they, but it is now a smart option for those that want to.

Its not changing for the sake of it, its keeping up with modern life.

As for the last bit, don't be so tight someone always catches an expensive round I've not heard any of my mates moan about that kind of thing tbh, not in a serious way anyway.
Does he have a tenner back?? Yes?? Right. What's it matter what his bank says :hehe:
If its that much bother transfer them the fiver.. From your mobile banking. Another change for changing sake that's made life easier.

[splott parker]

Re: Did everyone's eticket work?

You can print your train tickets at the station, or charge your phone. That's not the phones fault is it?

Maybe the cards needed updating, I've not idea how long they can last, and as it goes they needed to upgrade them to introduce other features.

People don't have to use their phone to get in do they, but it is now a smart option for those that want to.

Its not changing for the sake of it, its keeping up with modern life.

As for the last bit, don't be so tight someone always catches an expensive round I've not heard any of my mates moan about that kind of thing tbh, not in a serious way anyway.
Does he have a tenner back?? Yes?? Right. What's it matter what his bank says :hehe:
If its that much bother transfer them the fiver.. From your mobile banking. Another change for changing sake that's made life easier.

Mobile banking??? Mine's static, it’s in a building in Queen St:hehe::hehe: