Originally Posted by
Steve M
I still have my first Octopus card from the original batch in 1997. Wow - it's now over 20 years old! It still works, but makes a funny beep at the turnstile to tell me that I should trade it in for a newer one. I see now that they have a website where you can check the details of old cards (
https://www.octopuscards.com/onlinef...y/en/step1.jsp). It says that mine will stop working as of 21 July 2018.
A few of my friends still use their very old cards, which have their child pictures on them. Well, we change the Bank Cards what, every 5 years and Passport and IDs every 10 years, so I guess it's reasonable to change the Octopus after 21 years of service
I would keep the old one for memory and buy a new one if I were you