Re: [vic] anyone seen THIS Metcard behaviour?

["Paul Hambleton" <P.Hambleton@bom.gov.au>]

I have seen this quite a lot. The monthly tickets I buy and validate at
Ashburton frequently gain an extra day at Flinders St. or Parliament on the
way out.
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> I have a monthly ticket, due to expire on September the 16th.  That's
> that expiry date printed on the back, and that's the expiry date that
> validators always flash at me when I put the ticket in.
>
> Today at Box Hill the validator said "expires 17/9/00". Thinking I'd
> misread it, I put the ticket back in to go out again. Again it said
> the 17th.
>
> So I went up to the person checking tickets and said what had
> happened.  I put it in a different validator, right in front of him,
> and again it said the 17th.  He just said "well, at least it read it".
>
> When I arrived at my home station (St Albans line), I put it in the
> validator there. It said "expires 16/9/00", as normal.
>
> Has anyone else seen anything like this?
>
> I wonder if it would be possible to put the ticket in at Box Hill on
> the 17th, have it accepted as valid, then get caught on the way out at
> Flinders St.  What do you think my chances would be of them believing
> my story?
>
> And I wonder if new tickets being validated at Box Hill are getting an
> extra day on them.