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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Payments.
Do you use this with your bank card, or even phone ?
Or do you prefer cash for smaller payments ?
I'd be much to wary about how much I might be spending 
If I've got thirty quid in my pocket then I'll know how much I've got left   |
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"Payments.
Do you use this with your bank card, or even phone ?
Or do you prefer cash for smaller payments ?
I'd be much to wary about how much I might be spending
If I've got thirty quid in my pocket then I'll know how much I've got left "
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Payments.
Do you use this with your bank card, or even phone ?
Or do you prefer cash for smaller payments ?
I'd be much to wary about how much I might be spending
If I've got thirty quid in my pocket then I'll know how much I've got left . You're bored "
Watching breakfast tv |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I was in a pub recently with a girlfriend waiting at the bar to be served and the guy next to her was about to pay when the barman says don't worry its been paid, it seems my friends bag was next to the card machine with her contactless card in it and the machine had taken it from that, a bit more tweaking needed maybe  |
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"Payments.
Do you use this with your bank card, or even phone ?
Or do you prefer cash for smaller payments ?
I'd be much to wary about how much I might be spending
If I've got thirty quid in my pocket then I'll know how much I've got left . You're bored
Watching breakfast tv "
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"Payments.
Do you use this with your bank card, or even phone ?
Or do you prefer cash for smaller payments ?
I'd be much to wary about how much I might be spending
If I've got thirty quid in my pocket then I'll know how much I've got left . You're bored
Watching breakfast tv . Emmerdale omnibus is on, you might spit some birds "
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Always pay for everything on my card, won't have contactless though, I never carry cash unless I know I'm going to need it
I had to make a 20 min walk each way the other night to draw some money out because my daughter needed a quid for none uniform day at school  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Use both contactless and iPay all the time. Paying by phone is so much more convenient than rummaging through my bag to find my cash card.
I never carry cash around either. If someone doesn't take card, I'll just buy from somewhere else. |
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Card or contactless all the time, when I can ( or iPay).
After all, I can check my bank on my phone whenever I like; and if I wanted to, my bank has a system that can text me every time my card is used, ( though I don't bother)
There are loads of scares about them; but the maximum range is only 5 cm at the most;
Just don't put a card, or wallet or bag down right beside a reader .
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I was in a pub recently with a girlfriend waiting at the bar to be served and the guy next to her was about to pay when the barman says don't worry its been paid, it seems my friends bag was next to the card machine with her contactless card in it and the machine had taken it from that, a bit more tweaking needed maybe "
That's worrying actually. Accessing your stuff without your permission. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I was in a pub recently with a girlfriend waiting at the bar to be served and the guy next to her was about to pay when the barman says don't worry its been paid, it seems my friends bag was next to the card machine with her contactless card in it and the machine had taken it from that, a bit more tweaking needed maybe "
So the machine can pick your card up through your bag and purse? Any time you put your bag near the machine it can access it?  |
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By *oyce69Man
over a year ago
Driffield |
There was a thread on faceache the other day showing a guy with a card reader on a tube train, switched on and ready to go, how many cards could he read on a busy journey?
Invest in a card case which can prevent this. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"the previous reply said the range was something like 5cm, her bag must have been leaning against the reader, it was very close I know that."
how did the machine know it was supposed to be her paying for the stuff? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"the previous reply said the range was something like 5cm, her bag must have been leaning against the reader, it was very close I know that.
how did the machine know it was supposed to be her paying for the stuff?"
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Use contactless most of the time Coz I'm lazy. Most weeks don't even bother topping up my oyster card coz I can just use my card. Not good when I'm trying to keep am eye on things financially. |
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By *i1971Man
over a year ago
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Mainly use chip & PIN, but have been using contactless for the odd purchase. Not sure about the scare stories of charging cards by mistake - personally, I've only found the machines work if the card actually touches the top of the reader, not even 1cm away, and with one or two machines, really had to try to make it recognise the contactless chip |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Apple pay is pretty good on iPhone 6 as you have to put you're thumb over the home key for it to authorise.
I have been using it quite a bit now as always know where the phone is and don't have to carry loose change |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I ordered a new debit card just because my old one wasn't contactless and I didn't want to wait another 6 months It's really handy. Haven't used my phone much yet though, except the Starbucks app. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Hipster type in the pub the other week tried to pay with his smart watch, didn't work. Then tried his phone, didn't work! Then had to get his card out. He was gutted. I had a chuckle"
Why did you find that funny?
My Oyster stopped working on the buses and my contactless bank card wouldn't work either. This meant I had to walk to get my grandson from school and walk him home,which is a 45 minute walk. The next day they both started working again. Technology is a pain when it doesn't work,I could have been left stranded in the middle of London late at night |
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It's also untrue. The effective range is less than 1cm. So unless she put her bag on the machine, and it was at the bottom, and there were no other contactless cards, and...
(guess what I do for a living!) |
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Oyster cards use a different standard.
That's one reason why it took so long for tfl to take bank cards (the main reason being the cost of taking card transactions).
That said, it's probably not fishing for that. It's more likely a bluetooth attack. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Cash only for me...I don't have any credit cards or debit cards.The only card I have is just a basic cash card to use to get my wages out of the bank.
Plastic just doesn't have the same smell as real money.
And no overdraft either. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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If I've got thirty quid in my pocket then I'll know how much I've got left "
this sort of selfish attitude won't help the banks! Now get out there and spend!!  |
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By *ikeC81Man
over a year ago
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I actually was doing some work for an organisation that was part of a industry that were looking st contactless cards before they came in
Now when a company says no contactless I say ooohhhh - mainly a big well know supermarket |
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By *olgateMan
over a year ago
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"It's also untrue. The effective range is less than 1cm. So unless she put her bag on the machine, and it was at the bottom, and there were no other contactless cards, and...
(guess what I do for a living!)"
No idea what you do for a living but if what you say is true (it isn't) we wouldn't be instructed to keep our contactless cards in special card wallets. The machines that criminals use can read cards far in excess of 5cm |
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I don't know about "machines that criminals use" but i work in a shop and can tell you that the range of the card reader is very small, 5cm on a good day but usually about 1cm.
What i can't understand is the people whose cards are contactless but they adamantly refuse to use it as if they are protecting themselves from some terrible fate if they did.
Can someone who refuses to use it explain the reasoning? |
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