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Check in and check out same station

It would be a nice idea if ns.nl/en would finally provide some contact information...

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Papieren kaartje wordt vanaf 9 juli vervangen door de eenmalige chipkaart

[quote=IskOV]This again is something you can only see when you are first in line. Which may not be much of a problem, but it IS annoying. Especially if you want to pay by credit card, have been waiting in line for some time to find out that 'your machine' does not accept credit cards and the nearest one that DOES accept them is at the other end of the hallway. . .[/quote] For what I understood from other topics and about a year ago on the forum of dutchnews.nl it's more that on selected stations, credit cards are accepted. On those stations, credit cards are accepted by all ticket vending machines. So it doesn't matter which tvm you use, as long as you are on one of those stations. By far most of the stations however do not have machines that accept credit cards.

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Gert-Jan G
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Papieren kaartje wordt vanaf 9 juli vervangen door de eenmalige chipkaart

[quote=IskOV][quote=Dennis]I cannot think of any reason for different machines . . . (apart from their ability to accept coins or credit cards)[/quote] I don't think the machines need to be replaced for that. Whether or not it accepts credit cards is just a matter of adjusting the payment terminal's firmware. Some machines already accept credit cards even.

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Gert-Jan G
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For all I remember, the machines with the obese look are the ones that accept coins and sells anonymous OV-Chipcards (plastic ones). The flat ones accept card only and don't sell plastic cards. The machine I photographed was one of the machines that accept coins. I found another one at the same station that wasn't converted to sell disposable chipcards, however apart from the firmware (which, on the converted machine, indeed shows only one button on the initial screen, named "I don't have an OV-Chipcard", wheras the original firmware features a second button saying "I want to travel abroad") there is no difference in the looks of these machines. In Amsterdam, standing in line for some time only to find out that the machine doesn't sell international tickets, shouldn't be that much of a problem. However, if the station you're at is somewhere very near the border, this can be an extremely unpleasant surprise for quite some people... Btw, out of curiosity, I topped up my personal OV-Chip

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Gert-Jan G
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Well, if you tick the option 'I don't have an OV-Chipcard' it shows the option to buy a disposable one, which says next to it that these include singles, returns and tickets abroad. However, when you tick that option, no tickets for abroad are available. Too bad, as that would have been a solution for easy acces through gates with an international ticket.

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Gert-Jan G
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Papieren kaartje wordt vanaf 9 juli vervangen door de eenmalige chipkaart

I thought the pink rectangle is actually to indicate that you can buy an anonymous OV-Chipcard from these machines, not to indicate that paper tickets are not available. Also, there was no pink rectangle on the machine I saw today. I took some pictures today which I enclose in this post, on which you can see no paper tickets are available and disposable tickets for discount price are also not for sale in these machines anymore.

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Gert-Jan G
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Not that I noticed, no... I have to take the train in an hour, I'll try not to forget to bring my camera and take a picture of one of the machines.

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Gert-Jan G
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Amsterdam Central, but I've seen the same on Amstel now. And of course there is no information about this whatsoever on ns.nl/en :@

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Gert-Jan G
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Papieren kaartje wordt vanaf 9 juli vervangen door de eenmalige chipkaart

Do I understand it correct that this thread is for asking questions about the new disposable OV-Chipcard? I read on http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2014/05/paper_train_tickets_set_to_van.php that paper train tickets were to vanish in July, but last Friday I approached a ticket machine which sold disposable chipcards only. What disturbed me the most was the fact that I couldn't buy a ticket with discount from that machine, but I wanted to take a friend with me who doesn't have an OV-Chipcard (I have a discount card) and obviously we wouldn't buy an anonymous card for just one trip, as the card costs actually more than three times the trip we were planned on making. Also, the article writes that a disposable ticket will be the fare price plus one euro. Alltogether, this just means that NS is abusing its power trying to raise the price significantly, in fact in our case far more than double it. I am very certain this is in fact not even legal, as the fare price can only rise once pe

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Gert-Jan G
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