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date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:26:25 +0100,    group: uk.transport.london        back       
Re: How much was a ticket for the underground in the 60s?   
In message , at 17:40:44 on 
Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Nobody  remarked:
>exchanging the US quarters for Green Back paper.
>
>Any bank I approached, refused to accept the large numbers of coins as
>I wasn't/we weren't a customer.

15 years ago I was given $100 bills by a clueless Bureau de Change, and 
I couldn't find a bank in a large US city that would change them, even 
when I enlisted the support of one of their customers! As a result I now 
never accept notes larger than $20.
-- 
Roland Perry
date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:58:26 +0100   author:   Roland Perry

Re: Nice oyster scam   
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:06:57 -0700 (PDT), thagor2008@googlemail.com
wrote:

>On Jun 17, 1:11 pm, Thunderbug  wrote:
>> to reclaim, but I guess it isn't an accident that the loophole remains open.
>
>You bet it isn't. Anyway the whole Oyster system is just a scam to
>screw as much money out of people as possible 

Ah, Boltar's back.
date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:26:25 +0100   author:   James Farrar

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