#77

Not mine, I clean it frequently… whenever I lick drugs off of it

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#78

The best thing about contactless cards is the additional scope for free drinks. We have an unsaid rule that if anyone we know leaves their card/wallet on the table and leaves the room during pints they’ll be getting rinsed. Sure, it’s fraud, but definitely fair game.

I can see why contactless speeds up transactions, but nobody’s ever really in a rush, and i’ve mislaid so many cards i wouldn’t trust myself not to lose another and not notice for a few hours. They probably have security stuff in place to ensure you get money back and all that, but i’m too busy to check.

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#79

don’t like it when the cashier / server / whatever takes your card and beeps it. I want to be the one who beeps.

#80

Do they have to ask? I’ve seen two or three numpties kicking off with cashiers. Their arguments appear to have been it’s not as safe as chip and pin (pretty sure this isn’t true, examples like mine above aside), and funds take longer to show as unavailable (which i’m guessing isn’t true either).

#81

Needs a neither option

#82

Cba to read replies

I’m not on Facebook (don’t have contactless card)

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#83

Very nearly lost it when a checkout person insisted that the card needed to be over ‘the lights’ on the reader to work. Tbf though if I didnt carry all my shit around loose in my pocket my cards would probably stay working for longer. 1-1 draw I think.

#84

I have one but I’m scared of contactless. Mostly because of the easy to spend it if the card ends up stolen. The other annoying think is that I have to keep my cards and oyster in separate wallets in case I double tap it tap the wrong one etc.

#85

Don’t know about you but that’s a lot of money for me. Enough to miss my bills and get ridiculous fines as a result

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#86

annoying when you’re in a bar/pub/shop and ask to pay by card and they take it off you and say ‘oh it’s contactless’ and doing it (touch/swipe/contact) without showing you the screen or anything. a few times I’ve asked to do it myself when given the chance.

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#87

Does she know her Oyster card also tracks her movements?

Also when you buy things from shops it shows the general location on your CC statement etc, etc.

#88

I only use cash, or chip and pin if I have exceeded my cash stash. (which is always small). I find I stop spending money like a fucker when
I have to hand over physical notes.

Contactless payments go directly against this ethos, hence nope.

#89

I’ve got into the habit of kinda smearing my contactless card on the machine. I think it’s because I’m kinda eager and slap the thing down before the machine is ready, and it seems to not recognise the card as easily when you do that, hence the _smear _.

My Oyster card is unregistered and not linked to a card or an account. Not planning on using a contactless card for TfL stuff. Mostly cos I don’t use it often enough for there to be any benefit.

Haven’t used Android pay yet. Google haven’t yet got my bank details (and won’t be getting then any time soon). It’s a futile resistance. Not particularly a trust/security thing. I just resent Google’s pervasiveness. (Actually, it is partially a trust/security thing - I don’t, in general, trust Android apps to not rinse me, so the badgering from Google Play about adding payment details always gets a ‘skip this’ response.)

I write like the tech and convenience of phone payments, though. Is there (or is there likely to be) any alternative to Apple/Google? I’d prefer to keep payments as a thing that’s between me and my bank rather than introducing bloody Google into the equation.

#90

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#91

Something like bPay from Barclays? https://www.bpay.co.uk/home#meet-the-bpay-family

I don’t know much about it but it appears to be a direct link between you and the bank without Apple, Google or whomever as an intermediary.

#92

agreed. Could not afford for that to unexpectantly disappear even if it was coming back

#93

Yeah, I use that shit. You may remember a classic thread on it?

#94

Are you in LDN these days wazzer?

#95

I absolutely do and will recommend its inclusion in the archive

#96

Ta. I’ll check it out.

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nebbie
September 16

Something like bPay from Barclays?
https://www.bpay.co.uk/home#meet-the-bpay-family

I don’t know much about it but it appears to be a direct link between you
and the bank without Apple, Google or whomever as an intermediary.

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I’ve got into the habit of kinda smearing my contactless card on the
machine. I think it’s because I’m kinda eager and slap the thing down
before the machine is ready, and it seems to not recognise the card as
easily when you do that, hence the _smear _. My Oyster card is unregistered
and not link…