Senior Railcard rip off

t0rt0ise

bouicca21 said:

Good grief if all you’ve lost over the pandemic is 30 quid for a railcard, you should be thanking your lucky stars.

You have no idea if that's all anyone has lost. Other companies are more keen to keep their customers onside. One has said the year long ticket to their museum has been extended because it was difficult to visit. The difference is that National Rail historically don't appear to care much about their customers.

Hasbeen

If people buy a service and do not use it.

And other people buy the same service and do use it.

Then it is not a Rip Off. It is personal choice.

By a regular every day rail user.    


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Shelldean

t0rt0ise said:

bouicca21 said:

Good grief if all you’ve lost over the pandemic is 30 quid for a railcard, you should be thanking your lucky stars.

You have no idea if that's all anyone has lost. Other companies are more keen to keep their customers onside. One has said the year long ticket to their museum has been extended because it was difficult to visit. The difference is that National Rail historically don't appear to care much about their customers.

I agree, we've visited a couple of heritage site where you pay once and your ticket is valid for a year. One site has extended their tickets to last 15 months to acknowledge that we couldn't visit as often.
Merlin annual passes have extended their passes, and I'm sure many others have too. 
I do agree to some extent with Bouicca21, worse things are going on.
But it is gaulng that the rail card companies don't seem to care that some of us haven't used our cards at all and won't refund not extend.

hartsdown

I bought a Senior Railcard in order to attend a family event at the beginning of January 2023. Strikes mean that I now have to buy a coachcard and coach tickets!!!

katejo

hartsdown said:

I bought a Senior Railcard in order to attend a family event at the beginning of January 2023. Strikes mean that I now have to buy a coachcard and coach tickets!!!

At least your card will be valid for the rest of the year as long as the strikes don't continue indefinitely! I will be eligible for the senior citizen card for the first time from March and hope to be able to use it.

giraffe69

hartsdown said:

I bought a Senior Railcard in order to attend a family event at the beginning of January 2023. Strikes mean that I now have to buy a coachcard and coach tickets!!!

I wouldn't have thought strikes were a huge surprise this month.

martindow

hartsdown said:

I bought a Senior Railcard in order to attend a family event at the beginning of January 2023. Strikes mean that I now have to buy a coachcard and coach tickets!!!

You could have delayed buying the railcard until the date you were due to travel and buy it at the ticket office or not get one at all if you had abandoned the idea of travelling by train. 

HillStreetBlues

martindow said:

You could have delayed buying the railcard until the date you were due to travel and buy it at the ticket office or not get one at all if you had abandoned the idea of travelling by train. 

Many stations are unmanned, so can not be bought at a ticket office.

Emmia

HillStreetBlues said:

martindow said:

You could have delayed buying the railcard until the date you were due to travel and buy it at the ticket office or not get one at all if you had abandoned the idea of travelling by train. 

Many stations are unmanned, so can not be bought at a ticket office.

If you have a smartphone, you can have the ticket in the app and then it is available instantly.

HillStreetBlues

Emmia said:

HillStreetBlues said:

martindow said:

You could have delayed buying the railcard until the date you were due to travel and buy it at the ticket office or not get one at all if you had abandoned the idea of travelling by train. 

Many stations are unmanned, so can not be bought at a ticket office.

If you have a smartphone, you can have the ticket in the app and then it is available instantly.

Bit puzzled on what's that to do with buying a railcard