<html><head></head><body>I don't use these systems but would agree with Paul on this, there will be hundreds of things that can be paid at these terminals. <br><br>Beyond what has so far been mentioned you can pay road tolls or buy tickets for my local bus and probably many other local bus companies. Although I can imagine some confusion if I was in London asking for a bus ticket between Wem and Shrewsbury even though the machine will be exactly the same as the one in my local shop.<br><br>Phil (trigpoint) <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 26 December 2018 20:16:46 GMT, Paul Allen <pla16021@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, 26 Dec 2018 at 18:07, bkil <<a href="http://bkil.hu">bkil.hu</a>+<a href="mailto:Aq@gmail.com">Aq@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Please don't confuse top ups with refilling:</div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Refilling_a_purchased_drink" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Refilling_a_purchased_drink</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>I think "top up" is standard terminology in the UK for increasing the balance of prepaid mobile phone accounts.</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>That, amongst other things. Even when, strictly speaking, they're payments rather than top-ups.</div><div>Because language mutates that way, and what started out as being purely for topping things up</div><div>ended up also handling bill payments.<br></div><div><br></div>Since you mentioned the UK, then just to complicate matters...</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">A large number of outlets offer the services of PayPoint. With this system I can top up my phone</div><div class="gmail_quote">account with the UK's four main mobile network operators (and possibly some of the virtual operators),</div><div class="gmail_quote">pay some or part of my gas bill, top up my electricity meter key, pay some or part of my water bill, pay</div><div class="gmail_quote">some or part of my TV licence (those outside the UK may have no idea what that is or why we have one)</div><div class="gmail_quote">and pay many other different things.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">I'd like to be able to point you at a list of everything that can be paid/topped up using PayPoint. I really</div><div class="gmail_quote">would. Because, if I saw the list I might spot some other thing it would be preferable[1] for me to pay</div><div class="gmail_quote"> that way. But PayPoint's website appears not to have such a list. I might be able to find such a list</div><div class="gmail_quote">from the sitemap, but that is broken. So all I can do is give you this link and you can play</div><div class="gmail_quote">"guess the logo" for the 30+ logos of the claimed 300+ companies that can be paid this way:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><a href="https://corporate.paypoint.com/our-proposition/whatwedo">https://corporate.paypoint.com/our-proposition/whatwedo</a></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div>There's a hell of a lot of things that can be paid/topped up that way. I suspect it might be better (at least<div class="gmail_quote"> in the UK) to tag it topup:payment_network=paypoint or some such rather than have 300+ <br></div><div class="gmail_quote">topup:phone:ee=yes + topup:electricy:sse=yes + topup:water:dwr_cymru=yes +</div><div class="gmail_quote">topup:gas:eon=yes + topup:tv_licence=yes +...</div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">[1]Why would I ever find it preferable to pay anything (other than top up my electricity meter key) this</div><div class="gmail_quote">way? My bank has a scheme to encourage people to use online banking, whereby certain businesses</div><div class="gmail_quote">offer discounts (if you use online banking to select a particular discount currently on offer). One of the</div><div class="gmail_quote"> shops near me with a PayPoint terminal is part of a franchise that offers me a 5% discount every 3 or</div><div class="gmail_quote"> 4 months. It's supposed to entice me to buy their big-brand-only, sold-at higher-than-anybody-else's</div><div class="gmail_quote"> prices merchandise. I use it purely for PayPoint purchases where the price is exactly the same as I'd</div><div class="gmail_quote">pay anywhere else. I even get 5% off cashback under that discount scheme!<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote">-- <br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Paul</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div>
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