Off Topic Contactless cards

Ok, so these have been around for a while now, but I still see people who actually HOLD the card pressed HARD against the device. The clue is in the name – CONTACTLESS – ie the card does NOT have to actually touch the device to be read and will, in fact, work approximately 1cm (½ an inch) or more away from the device, as they work on a system known as Near Field Communication (NFC).
Next time you use one, hold your index finger under the card and it will still work and if you have Google/Apple pay set up on your smartphone, they work even further away.

Rant over!!!

 

Good point. As one of the offenders I will now change my ways as I have always tapped my card on the reader, completely ignoring the meaning of contactless

 

Thank god you put "Off Topic" so I knew this had nothing to do with this forum, and could just ignore it and not click on it.

Saved me so much time and stress.

Edit- I agree with your view though, I do a little eye roll in the supermarket.

 

Thanks 1950. You and about 99% of the population - well in England anyway!!!

 

I have contactless on my phone but still hold it on the scanner thing as if you remove it too quickly or it's not close enough it doesn't work..


Brilliant for the underground too if your oyster runs low.

 

Use mine for the tube - saves having an Oyster card.

 

I only found out the other day, to my peril, that you can only use contactless 10 times in a row without having to enter your pin code.

Week away working while forgetting my pin was not the time to find this out

 

Is that specific to your bank? I've probably only been asked for my PIN on a contactless payment a handful of times.

 

My contactless limit is £30.00 even though I have several millions in my account

 

That is really annoying!

The amount of times it is 31 or 32 pounds. It never use to be an issue, but when you see it is so close to the swipe! It's frustrating!

 

My shopping one day last week came to £30.54 and I had to enter my pin

 

It makes you want to "GRRRRR" doesn't it. Which is a bit mad to think about.

with the increase in all prices, I wouldn't be against raising the £30 to £50 for contactless.

 

A quick shop for dinner, now can cost over £30. Which is mental, but happens.

 

And THAT Dave is WHY you need to set up 'Google Pay' on your smartphone. Then in MOST cases, there is no limit.

 

Card use in France is not as widespread as in the UK and contactless, whilst not rare, is not the norm on most terminals. They still like to use old fashioned cash and it will take longer here than in the UK before the inevitable cashless society arrives.

 

We obviously not got much to talk about today then!!??

 

Damn - you spotted my 'diversionary tactic!!!!'

 

Yep!! You so nearly got away with it.

 

I'm glad you added off topic I was all ready to get excited about a Neymar thread and it's about fricking bank cards!

Bah!

 

I have tried using my tablet as a contactless instrument but sad to say it just doesn't work.