Do you wait until immediately before departure to print them or do you print them in advance and store them?
Depends. If I’m passing a station I’ll drop in and get them early, if not I’ll get them on the day. I don’t travel in groups so it’s purely down to whatever I feel like/if I need an excuse to stop off at a station I’ve not been to yet.
Sounds like you have a complicated and difficult to use setup.
Short of setting up a mesh network it’s what I have to work with. Even without the connection troubles it‘s a pain trying to print it in a format more user friendly than a sheet of A4 that then needs to be folded and in a way that enables it to folded so that the key information is quickly visible and the code does not end up over the crease and at risk of getting rubbed away.
Ok; technically yes you need a PDF reader, which is standard these days, but it doesn't need to "connect" any apps, so I'm not sure what you meant by that.
I don’t recall using the word “connect”, I said cooperate. I end up with dozens of pdfs on my devices each week through work, they don’t always function nicely and I don’t want to have to deal with them in my spare time as well if I can help it. If I’m midway through reading one pdf I don’t want to have to suddenly stop, find the right ticket in the hundreds of pdfs I have, open it, and then try to get back to where I was. I could just wave a piece of card.
I accept that some people prefer to have paper tickets, but this is a minority. Will you accept that most people prefer e tickets?
Everyone has their preferences and that’s fine. I don’t give two hoots what format the person next to me has purchased their ticket in, it has absolutely no impact on me.
As for trying to convert people, I am only responding because reasons have been posted in favour of paper tickets; it's not me who is initiating this in some sort of crusade to convert people.
I’m not on some crusade either, and I’m not sure why you feel as though you have to try to dismiss any reason why people favour paper tickets. I was merely responding to a thread about why some people do like paper tickets. Whether you intend it to or not it does come across as rather abrasive when someone explains their preference and is then repeatedly told all the reasons why having that preference is wrong. If someone says that they find one way of purchasing tickets easier and less stressful
for them that should be the end of it.
If you like e-tickets then great, you buy them. I’m not to keen on them and I’ll stick with my cardboard until such a time that they are withdrawn or my feelings on the matter change.
What sort of weird wallets do people on here have that won't fit bog roll tickets or folded e-tickets in the notes slot?
I can fit A4 folded down to A6 size in my wallet, but then not all the key information is on one single side without unfolding and isn’t just there at a glance. It really doesn’t seem too much to ask to want one side of paper with the key information clearly available and not surrounded by swathes of wasted white paper.
