Hopefully no one minds if I post this in a seperate thread, but I think NICE Bus fareboxes are scratching up Metrocards, and causing Read Errors. After having my EasyPay Metrocard damaged by NICE in March, it took 3 weeks to get a new card, which I recieved just over a week ago.
2 buses gave me Read Errors today, and I took a photo of the card and noticed a very small scratch on it already. I store my card in a Metrocard holder so the scratch must have come from a NICE Bus farebox.
A close up photo of my NEW card.
Now look at the old card, it has marks in a similar place! It was only about a year old!
I'm going to be sharing these images with NICE as well.