Originally Posted by
GUWonder
And not everyone with a personal number has Bank-ID or any of those other "e-"ID things. Maybe they stop in in-person at an SJ office/counter/lounge (as appropriate per where they are or ticket type) and use a passport or Skatteverket ID to try to get the account access?
SJ does not have any ticket offices. SJ closed the ticket offices at Stockholm C, Göteborg C and Malmö C on 1 March 2021. I don't know if you can book tickets in the lounge. You can buy tickets from Pressbyrån and 7-Eleven, but I don't think that they sell tickets for night trains, or maybe they only sell seats but no beds. I don't think that there is a way to book redemption tickets other than by using the website.
Originally Posted by
GUWonder
At least last a couple of years ago, some people without BANK-ID/MobileID/whatever could use the SJ Prio accounts to use SJ points for train travel without any e-ID-type steps. Not sure how it was done, but I saw the results and confirmed that none of those ID things were required for at least some SJ points redemption.
You can log in to your account using a password, but some time ago there was a scandal where a lot of SJ Prio points were stolen and since then you need to use Bank-id to redeem points. Other things can still be done without Bank-id. You don't need to log in to book tickets. Just enter your card number on the website or in the vending machine.
Originally Posted by
GUWonder
SJ Prio points still expire pretty quickly IIRC. I don't know if there was any way to extend the point expiration dates for a sets of points expiring before more recently collected points expire, but it seemed to me that there wouldn't be any value in even many a 5-year old SJ account because of how SJ points seemed to expire.
There is no way to extend the validity, not even by reaching the highest tier. If a customer hasn't used the account for five years, then all points will have expired by now. If you can't use your points before they expire, then it's better to donate them to charity.