The funny part for me is the fact that the original keycard was lo-co and lost its magnetism in a day of moving around and having it next to another magnetic strip, where as the cloned MetroCard remained perfectly functional. Not to mention that (with the vendor the hotel is using), an encoder capable of handling hi-co is twice the price of the standard encoder, or about 16x the price of the MSR805 used for the cloning (which does low- and hi-co).