(21 May 2022, 10:18 pm)F114TML wrote Ok, but, the ones Stagecoach use are noticeably faster, even when paying from the same stop. I think the trouble is that the Ticketer takes a few seconds to detect there's a card on the reader and change the 'issue ticket' button to 'take card payment', Stagecoach's (are they wayfarers?) seem to activate the card reader immediately, like the ones at most shops.
Aye possibly, don't Stagecoach use the old ones Arriva had? If so they used to be seriously unreliable when Arriva had them with the card reader broken half the time (believe it didn't work at all when there was no signal which when you go a bit rural is a big problem).