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This sickens me. I paid the fine.
That is to say, I have decided not to spend hours arguing online or in court, or both, with a giant, unfeeling coorporation. I just don't have the time or the energy - neither do I have confidence in the system being fair.
I have been officially ripped...
Point (2): This is the tricky one. Neither of us was looking at the screen of the card reading machine. Maybe there was a red light. However, the sound was a normal beep sound. We would definitely have noticed warning beeps. We have used oyster machines thousands of times.
I am inclined to...
Thanks for your help, those who wrote.
I went to my Oyster page online and saw that the card was not in any way registered at Erith Station. The system failed to record the touch-in up.
Given that I have a witness who heard my card beep should I contest the fine, or would the sensible thing...
I was on my way into Erith Station a couple of days ago and I put my Oystercard on the reader and heard it beep in the usual manner. I have done this thousands of times and if the beep had sounded odd I would have noticed. There was no barrier. I did not look at the screen on the reader machine...
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