Get me there and Contactless card payment

[Mayneway]

RE: Get me there and Contactless card payment

(14/01/2021 11:50)Mrboo Wrote:  Due to payments bouncing First / DNW / GNW / Arriva / Vision will only issue get me there tickets if you pay by cash.

They are saying it due to fraud but it more down to the payment system as often they take payment overnight and not at time you buy the ticket.

So people can endup spending the money then the bank would bounce the payment if customer would go into overdraft. I had it many times when I have got a first week on card and they ended up blocking my card due to they when to take the payment after I then spend the money on the card.

Due to the way the system is setup System one would still want payment if the payment was bounced.

But I also think they doing this also to push there own tickets.

As a driver I can 100% say it’s nothing to do with what you’ve written above.
When a group of lads board your bus and the first one wants an anybus weekly (£19.50), pulls out a big bundle of cards and wants to try every card until one goes through, then the lad behind wants to do the same etc etc.
Company’s have been asked to suspend taking the card payments while police investigate. It’s apparently a massive police operation, problem is the company I work for have now seen a swing towards our own weeklys being bought fraudulently with many flagging up as ‘hotlisted’ days after they were bought. I can see it going back to a cash only system.