I couldn't find a better forum for this, and it's to do with buying tickets, but it's not specifically about fares.
Over the past month or so, I've been getting really weird charges for some of my tickets when buying on my Debit Card from Guildford train station's automated machines.
I buy tickets most weekdays (with 16-25, off peak, it's cheaper than getting any kind of season ticket), and most of the time, the charge is posted to my bank account the same day, or the day after. However, on a couple of occasions now, the difference between the transaction date and the bank posting date has been in excess of three weeks (my bank provides both the transaction date and charge date separately on statements). In one case, I bought a ticket, made a journey, claimed Delay Repay, and got refunded prior to the original pending charge actually being taken from my account.
While, when all is said and done, they end up charging me the correct amount, and there's likely no issue with any of this, what the heck is going on? It's very rare for retailers to keep charges pending for more than a couple of days before attempting to take the funds, and it makes it very peculiar from a budgeting standpoint when I have all these random pending charges accruing and being taken in different months to the actual spend dates...
Over the past month or so, I've been getting really weird charges for some of my tickets when buying on my Debit Card from Guildford train station's automated machines.
I buy tickets most weekdays (with 16-25, off peak, it's cheaper than getting any kind of season ticket), and most of the time, the charge is posted to my bank account the same day, or the day after. However, on a couple of occasions now, the difference between the transaction date and the bank posting date has been in excess of three weeks (my bank provides both the transaction date and charge date separately on statements). In one case, I bought a ticket, made a journey, claimed Delay Repay, and got refunded prior to the original pending charge actually being taken from my account.
While, when all is said and done, they end up charging me the correct amount, and there's likely no issue with any of this, what the heck is going on? It's very rare for retailers to keep charges pending for more than a couple of days before attempting to take the funds, and it makes it very peculiar from a budgeting standpoint when I have all these random pending charges accruing and being taken in different months to the actual spend dates...