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    Buying A Ticket Before You Travel?

    Tony Mac - thanks for the examples, however, all three of them a contract was entered into by payment being made. Island - I'm not sure how one can enter into a contract by walking. What I would say is that at no point did I refuse to make payment or would suggest that someone does that. If...
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    Buying A Ticket Before You Travel?

    Daily Mail reader by any chance, Jeff? It's certainly not astonishing. It's a debate. This thread is not about avoiding payment it's about what wrong you are doing by walking onto a train without a ticket and expecting to be served by a conductor. This is, however, in part, a fight back...
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    Buying A Ticket Before You Travel?

    I agree, you should pay for the service but if nobody asks you to pay before the end of the journey, what wrong have you done? Why should you go out of your way to buy a ticket after your journey just because a train operator doesn't employ enough staff? I'm turning this around. The train...
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    Buying A Ticket Before You Travel?

    I've noticed lots of rail operators now use IRCAS/ITAL to catch people without tickets/out of date tickets etc. Genuine question: what wrong are you actually doing by getting on a train without a ticket? I can almost hear most of you say "it's part of the terms and conditions you must buy...

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