02-26-2018, 06:44 PM
(02-26-2018, 04:48 PM)danbrotherston Wrote:(02-26-2018, 04:06 PM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote: Gross note on the fare card pilot, from what a friend told me: Funds expire (for the pilot only, I'm assuming) after one month. So either you take the risk that you're going to see money disappear if you want to load it once, or else you really need to know how much you're going to use it. Quite counterproductive for trying to encourage usage; even with the discount on fares, this will scare away a lot of their users and those users' trips.
"Funds disappear"...this would be a complete non-starter for me, I often hold onto tickets for months. And there's no reason for this, it doesn't happen on presto.
What kind of person thinks it’s acceptable for funds to just disappear (i.e., for them to confiscate your property) after a short period of time? I can understand after a long time, like several years of inactivity or the same rules as for unused bank accounts, but other than that it is my professional opinion that the cost of not making the funds disappear is so close to nil even the accountants will never see the difference.
Actually I wonder if this is even legal. I believe there is consumer protection legislation in place for retail cards; is there any significant legal difference between stored value at a store and stored value at a transit authority?