py_megapixel
Established Member
If you've been to London at all over the past few years, you'll have seen the "Watch out for card clash when using Contactless and Oyster" posters. This is nothing new, nor is it unique to ITSO. I don't suspect that a person taking diner's cards for payment in a restaurant would know which to use if handed several at once!Be careful if you ever travel on the Manchester Metrolink tram system as you might find that your contactless debit card has been accepted as payment for your journey and not your weekly ticket, TFGM even say that you must remove your card from your wallet thus separating it from other sources of charging. Shockingly ****e yes but that's the inferior cheap tech that they are deploying. But so long as the coins roll in TFGM aren't going to too much of a damn.
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I think one of the biggest flaws of the standard is that the cards contain information about their issuer, allowing tickets to be restricted to certain cards. If I could carry just one ITSO card around, that might convince me to use it for all modes of transport, but the inability to issue some tickets on some cards really puts me off.