Under 16's Oyster card - What happens now?

Amanha2010

Thanks for all your help. Just to be on the safe side, Il put a tenner on my oyster - just so I dont end up stuck at Liverpool St. (Incase they do charge me £6)

But one thing thats bugging me, Will that "Incomplete Journey" still stay on my oyster history? (As It says that when you check the history at the tube station)

dzug1

Unless you take steps to reclaim it then yes

Jeff_Bridges_hair

Amanha2010 wrote: »

Thanks for all your help. Just to be on the safe side, Il put a tenner on my oyster - just so I dont end up stuck at Liverpool St. (Incase they do charge me £6)

But one thing thats bugging me, Will that "Incomplete Journey" still stay on my oyster history? (As It says that when you check the history at the tube station)

Go to a ticket window and get it rectified and explain to them what happened and tey should take it off

Mizter_T

Don't worry about the incomplete journey at all - it doesn't need to be rectified, and it's not going to result in anything bad happening, I can assure you of that. It'll stop showing eventually but perhaps not for a year or something - but like I said it's not going to make any difference to what will happen in the future (indeed if you ask at a Tube station ticket office they will in all likelihood say just that - don't worry about it, nothing needs to be done).

There's no mechanism at all for charging Oyster cards after the event - all the charging happens there and then - basically, when using Oyster Pay-as-you-go, when you start a journey and touch-in they take a deposit (which can vary by station, but it's essentially based on what a long journey would cost), and when you touch-out they refund you a certain amount based on the journey you actually made.

As dzug1 says, that 70p appears to be the 'penalty' charge - as an adult it'd be rather more! (You could try and reclaim the 70p from Oyster customer services if you explain that you made a mistake - but is it really worth it?!)