I have Google Pay using my Monzo Flex card for contactless. The Flex is registered with TFL so I can see my history/charges.
Last sunday I used a bus in london (£1.75). The next day I used a train (£5). Usually you’d expect to see the money taken the day after the journey (presumably so they can handle caps). Here, though, I can see an entry for sunday in monzo for £6.75. This includes the line "30 april - transport for london requested £5). 30th april was the day after the train journey, which is when the money would normally be taken, so I guess this is ok, if confusing. In google pay (actually google wallet!) I can see an entry for the bus journey but with no value. At the top if says "this is not a receipt of a ticket. Your payment may not have been taken or you might have reached a fare cap. see bank statement for details). Well…what statement? There’s no price - how do I tie them together? Obviously the £6.75 one though, right? So… where’s the £5 (in wallet) then? Well! There’s another entry in google wallet for £5, with a time 2 minutes after I tapped in on the bus, for a car park! a car park in the general area I took the bus from, but which I’ve never spent any more in, or actually physically set foot in for probably years.
I’ve sent a message to tfl about this and perhaps they’ll reply saying yeah, that was us. Maybe they won’t and they somehow forgot to collect their £5 AND I’ve been coincidentally scammed the same amount at the same time. Perhaps google wallet has a bug and it’s just picked the car park instead of a tfl location for the transaction.
Has anyone experienced anything like this? Is this just google being its usual “it’ll be great when its finished” self and I should just get used to it?