Let me explain I don’t go to public school. I’m homeschooled I’m 13 and still they’re just a piece of cheap plastic that are easily breakable and peelable like they changed the layout a few times and they my parents keep getting new ones for me because it gets peeled a lot after you months the regular omny cards are much better than the student better make the student ones more durable
It literally works last week. But yesterday when I tapped nothing happened. Like nothing. Not even "card not accepted" and I tried at multiple turnstile gates aswell.
I needed to change form of payment for reduced fare disability on OMNY but still can't do it on their website. Called OMNY and they are confused but said they would escalate and fix.
They didn't and then OMNY said they can't do it even though they did it 3 times before! Was told to call 718-330-1234. They couldn't help me told to go to customer service center in person.
This has been going on since OMNY was introduced. Why?
I just want to start with that always pay my fare. So the other day, when I tapped the OMNY reader on a select bus it didn't pick up payment. I did have money on my card. The reader wasn't working for everyone else as well.
I'm thinking to myself, "you know what I'll just get on the bus." But then, I started to get the feeling that fare enforcers were going to be at the next bus stop. I was on the bus and the next stop is 10 blocks away. Again, I just a had a mf feeling they were gonna be there.
AND THEY WERE.
I panicked, tried to scan my OMNY but stupid reader didn't work. Bunch of other people were panicking and trying to scan. I couldn't get CLOSE to the reader. It wasn't the Eagle team but other fare enforcers. They stopped me because I just didn't have the balls to walk away. I was like shit.
They scanned my card and said to me I didn't pay. I tell them the reader in the back doesn't work. "Why did you enter through the back?" he asked. "It's a select bus." "So why didn't you try the front?" he followed up with. "I just didn't." "You should try all the readers." "Okay," I said.
"Let me see your ID."
"You know what forget it." I walked away and he was left with my OMNY card. ðŸ˜
I immediately transferred funds to another card and removed my contact info/payment that I had saved in my OMNY account.
Is there a possibility I will get mail saying I owe $3? 🫠I heard people get warnings and then collection mails.
Seriously, who was the fucking idiot that decided to make this OMNY shit?
I still can not make an account. Like wtf. Activation Link not working and then you got these dumb ass agents with no experience who just give you copy and paste answer.
And then you fucking idiots at the MTA wonder why we dont pay. Like bring back the fucking Metrocard.
This dumb ass OMNY shit steals your money and till this fucking day, I still can not make a damn account.
It was supposed to release Q4 2025 and it went and gone.. any news
Hopefully they bring back unlimited pass too
So double charging actually occurs especially if you accidentally tap twice when you have reached your fare cap for the week! OMNY’s system is extremely slow in processing taps, voids, and any modifications making it extremely difficult to keep up with the charging especially if one rides a lot. Since today was the last day of my fare cap, OMNY suggested loading money into the card to use it and then disputing all the rides from today! I have a spare OMNY card I will reload for $35 while they figure out that fiasco. Just wanted to warn people that it is extremely easy to get double/triple charged especially if you are not vigilant with monitoring the charges.
An old card I used for OMNY got flagged for fraud after I had commuted into work, and was immediately shut off.
Since I have an outstanding balance, OMNY won't let me use the replacement card from the same bank because I have a $2.90 outstanding balance that I can ONLY pay online with the old card, there is no option to use a different payment method. I have the $2.90 and will gladly pay the fare I owe, but I am not able to.
OMNY also sometimes refuses any other cards attached to my phone, since this device has the OLD card in my digital wallet. It works 50% of the time.
I have called customer service a dozen times, and each time, I have been put on hold and promptly hung up on.
OMNY card terminals are trash.
I skip fares 10x more now than I ever did under the old system.
Yes, I know I can just buy an OMNY card and I have one, but why spend as much money as MTA did for a worse system? Trains are still late, digital ad boards have been smashed, and it's a hassle even trying to give the MTA my money. Why?
*Edited to fix a typo
I lost a Fair Fares OMNY card and requested a replacement. I had a balance of $28 on my lost one that I put on in cash. How do I transfer it to my new replacement card? When I go to the drop down menu, the option to transfer the balance isn't there. It just says CLOSED. It seems like I have $28 just floating in the OMNY void. SOS.