FabSwingers.com forum: Contactless?

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

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 *cduck and Blue eyesCouple
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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. You're bored

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Never used contactless or mobile payments, never will. Card or cash only.

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By *ourbonKissMan
over a year ago

a land up north..... of leicester

I was telling a mate yesterday that I've transcended physical cash as I rarely use it nowadays... I find I have an even handle on my how much I have in each of accounts this way

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"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

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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By *cduck and Blue eyesCouple
over a year ago

nr chester

"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 *cduck and Blue eyesCouple
over a year ago

nr chester

"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

"
. Obviously that was spot

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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

I used contactless payment in costa coffee the other day...

Only because I was 50p over what change I had in my purse so it came in very handy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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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By *enard ArgenteMan
over a year ago

London and France

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)
over a year ago

"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)
over a year ago

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 (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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.

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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

"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

"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

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

Cornwall

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

Tend to use my phone all the time, I can go days without having physical money in my pockets ....... Apple Pay is the way forward

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By *otblondewife hornyMrCouple
over a year ago

Cambuslang

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

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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 *iss_Samantha_LovecockTV/TS
over a year ago

bmth /poole sometimes blandford

i like it and use it alot ..i have a lil key fob thing but did lose it the other day .easy to use.. and lose .but it saves having to carry cash and a wallet

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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 *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

Love it, so much easier

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"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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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

"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."

You are now contactless

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By *ikeC81Man
over a year ago

harrow

I use my watch as contactless or my phone

It does freak people out at first but they get used to it

Yes I am flash lol

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By *estsideukMan
over a year ago

Hatfield area

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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I don't really trust it at all but it's so fucking handy I can't help but use it.

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By *estsideukMan
over a year ago

Hatfield area

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

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 *UNKIEMan
over a year ago

south east

Cash for me 99.9% of the time ..only time i ever use card is if purchasing online

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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

harrow

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 (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

you can use contactless cards on the underground...saves buying a ticket and a lot quicker

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By *olgateMan
over a year ago

on the road to nowhere in particular

"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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By *ighland_RoseCouple
over a year ago

Brigadoon

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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