Whos fault?

[TooNice]

It's the principal of the thing though. I don't think he should have automatically assumed I was trying to cheat the system though. The fact that I offered to pay the difference before he even mentioned me having to buy another ticket shows that I wasn't trying rob them in anyway. It was just the cheek of him ripping up my ticket and throwing all kind of crimes I had apparently committed in my face.

Innocent till proven guilty and all that, sure, but the problem is that if they give the benefit of doubt to every person who -are- trying to pull a fast one, they would never get any fare dodgers (and you may as well not have any ticket inspectors).

In the end, while I've already said that your story is credible, it is one a fare dodger could've made on the spot. And given that they are not mind readers, they can only take your word for it, and why should he take yours and but not someone else's?

But as I've already said, and watforddude elaborated. Get a complaint form, explain the situation to them, and see you get some coupons back. I know you said it's more the principle than the money, but you can only change one, not the other.

[PeterStoba]

Well, every time I get off a busy train they check everyones tickets. Sometimes people don't have time to buy tickets before getting on the train, and the train is so busy that they don't get a chance to buy on the train, so they have to get it after they get off. Makes sense, right?

Must be different in Merseyside.

I get checked on the train and then when I get off, to get out of a major station I have to put the ticket through an automated barrier for it to open, then that's it.

[GoNz0]

should have told him to call the police and walked off, if he tried to stop you get him arrested for assault.

anyway, i would write a letter of complaint and you should get your money back.

[watforddude]

with 5 pounds i can get to college and back twice! so it helps and its better than nothing!

[TAKTAK]

with 5 pounds i can get to college and back twice! so it helps and its better than nothing!

Are you sure that you're getting on a real train? and not just someone chugging and you paying them for it and following them around?

(i almost asked where you were in the country, but then i realised it would be a disastrous mistake )

[Dareos]

Contact the rail company involved, speak to a CS agent there, ask for a refund of the child's ticket.

Explain the situation as fully and as succinctly as you did here, remembering to put the apostrophe in who's.... and you should come out a winner. No rail company wants bad press at the moment. Be professional and courteous, and see what happens.

If there is no joy at the end of this particular avenue, drop the Metro paper a line, stating which journey and train service you were on.

People do read it

[Blastuk]

Contact the rail company involved, speak to a CS agent there, ask for a refund of the child's ticket.

Explain the situation as fully and as succinctly as you did here, remembering to put the apostrophe in who's.... and you should come out a winner. No rail company wants bad press at the moment. Be professional and courteous, and see what happens.

If there is no joy at the end of this particular avenue, drop the Metro paper a line, stating which journey and train service you were on.

People do read it

pretty sure it's whose

[Dareos]

Quite correct! Serves me right for posting while intoxicated I was thinking it should have been who is at fault, therefore being shortened to who's and actually not reading it correctly in the first place.