| I would like to share my bad experience when I was using my card. It was not the operation itself but from dishonest person I got on a taxi with a friend. As we used English throughout, I guess that gave myself away for the opportunistic driver to swap my fully charged transport card (over 900 RMB on the card) with his own (prepared earlier, with zero credit on). What made me angry was, not only he swapped my card, he also claimed the card was not working and demanded cash payment. Since I remembered using "my" card shortly before, I did not suspect otherwise but to blame the reliability of the card. At the transports card service center, I was told this is the usual trick unlicensed taxi drivers pull on foreigners. From then on, I insisted on not to hand over my card but to first to get off from the back seat to the front with my card wallet all the way in my hand. Well, that is Shanghai. |
Shanghai Public Transportation Card