Money Moral Dilemma: Someone forgot to take their train ticket - should I use it?

[Deleted User]

Jesus wept. really. these threads must be so made up.

In the last month I've been handed £20 in gratuities I've never needed to resort to being so low as to put the money in my own pocket. And that's before you wake up on payday to find it gets better, when you've also worked two weeks in hand which also escaped your new employers mind to tell you...
(Oh well least even the payslip say's I'm casual)

hope such wrong attitude gets you far.

Cimscate

darleydame wrote: »

Surely the ticket is out of date by the time you get these replies?

Love this, so true!

anotheruser

Technically, tickets are non-transferable.
However the railway doesn't really enforce this (it's an old rule).

Putting an ad in the local paper is a stupid, old fashioned idea.

If it fits with what you're doing like the first reply says, may as well use it.
Ignore all these moral high ground people suggesting it's stealing. No doubt they find other ways to save money.



After all, this is money SAVING expert, not moral saving expert!

glider3560

Those saying to hand it into the ticket office: what do you honestly think they'll do with the ticket? Knowing the woman at my station (which I use daily), I have no doubt she'd place it immediately in the bin.

SultanPepper

In the past i have bought the wrong ticket and left it in the machine for someone to pick up.

I often do this with parking as well. Pay for day, and provided it isnt linked to my car reg, I either hand it to someone at a machine or leave in or stuck to the machine.

stmartinsdiver

Hand it in at the ticket office or to a railway employee - if the person who left it gets caught without a ticket then at least their claim that they forgot to take the ticket could be verified.

rufford155

Well done admitting in public you have probably broken the law.
Tickets for parking are non-transferable.
Personally I hate those car parks - especially hospitals - where you have to decide in advance how long you'll be staying so inevitably the ticket is partly wasted, just another rip-off.

VT82

Hand it in to the ticket office.


I once accidentally left one of the tickets in the machine when picking up some tickets I had ordered online. By the time I got to Euston, I realised I didn't have my return ticket with me. Went to the ticket office, they rang Wolverhampton to be told it had been found and handed in at the ticket office, so they could reprint it for me at Euston. Whoever you are helpful stranger, you have my eternal thanks for handing my ticket in!

db2016

fair game for me!



as someone said it's money saving expert!



do you really think the police are gonna come after you for a ticket. when much bigger things like house break ins or cars being nicked get NFA'd!



see it as a nice lil life bonus!

Mark_Stephens

Easy to answer The ticket is a contract between the purchaser or the person for whom the ticket was purchased and the railway company If the ticket/contract is 'found' it is not valid, simple. Any person attempting to use the ticket is committing fraud, knowingly using and attempting to evade paying the correct fare. They are committing a criminal offence. The same applies to people using or attempting to use 'return portions' of such tickets even if it had been given to them