Re: [melb] yearly met cards

[p.edwards@its.unimelb.edu.au (Paul Edwards)]

In article <3AD3AFB1.13D51205@iprimus.com.au>, railvic@iprimus.com.au wrote:

> Are you willing to pay $25 to have your damaged Metcard Xpress
> replaced?  Keep in mind these cards are not inserting into validators
> (instead read by the yellow external spot), therefore, if such request
> is made, it will most likely to $$$$ (Excuse of ticket damaged by
> validators will become irrelevant).  All M>Trains, Connex, M>Trams and
> Yarra Tram staff have been issued with Metcard Xpress and they have
> signed and agreed to such fee for replacement.  From what I have seen so
> far, some customers will have trouble keeping Metcard Xpress in working
> order, not to mention losing them ...
> 
> Peter

But surely in this era of user pays, this is not unacceptable. Denying
access to a particular service which has value to a significant proportion
of passengers because of the abovementioned issue seems like a rather
lightweight reason to me.

PE