On Wed, 26 Dec 2018 at 18:07, bkil <[email protected]> wrote: > Please don't confuse top ups with refilling: > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Refilling_a_purchased_drink > > I think "top up" is standard terminology in the UK for increasing the > balance of prepaid mobile phone accounts. >
That, amongst other things. Even when, strictly speaking, they're payments rather than top-ups. Because language mutates that way, and what started out as being purely for topping things up ended up also handling bill payments. Since you mentioned the UK, then just to complicate matters... A large number of outlets offer the services of PayPoint. With this system I can top up my phone account with the UK's four main mobile network operators (and possibly some of the virtual operators), pay some or part of my gas bill, top up my electricity meter key, pay some or part of my water bill, pay some or part of my TV licence (those outside the UK may have no idea what that is or why we have one) and pay many other different things. I'd like to be able to point you at a list of everything that can be paid/topped up using PayPoint. I really would. Because, if I saw the list I might spot some other thing it would be preferable[1] for me to pay that way. But PayPoint's website appears not to have such a list. I might be able to find such a list from the sitemap, but that is broken. So all I can do is give you this link and you can play "guess the logo" for the 30+ logos of the claimed 300+ companies that can be paid this way: https://corporate.paypoint.com/our-proposition/whatwedo 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 in the UK) to tag it topup:payment_network=paypoint or some such rather than have 300+ topup:phone:ee=yes + topup:electricy:sse=yes + topup:water:dwr_cymru=yes + topup:gas:eon=yes + topup:tv_licence=yes +... [1]Why would I ever find it preferable to pay anything (other than top up my electricity meter key) this way? My bank has a scheme to encourage people to use online banking, whereby certain businesses offer discounts (if you use online banking to select a particular discount currently on offer). One of the shops near me with a PayPoint terminal is part of a franchise that offers me a 5% discount every 3 or 4 months. It's supposed to entice me to buy their big-brand-only, sold-at higher-than-anybody-else's prices merchandise. I use it purely for PayPoint purchases where the price is exactly the same as I'd pay anywhere else. I even get 5% off cashback under that discount scheme! -- Paul
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