I remember when Visa was originally called BankAmericard.Meanwhile, my Visa debit card still has raised lettering.
I remember when Visa was originally called BankAmericard.Meanwhile, my Visa debit card still has raised lettering.
I work with someone who drives a Model Y. He says the only thing he doesn’t like about it is the quality of the body panels. Other than that he says it is a great car.1 - I've ordered the replacement for our final gas engine in my household - our ten year old Civic is getting replaced with a Model Y.
2 - Even when I had more gas engines, I was quick to switch to contactless... unattended credit card readers, like those at a gas station, are easily the most common to have card skimmers at them. Card only needs to get skimmed once to decide to stop using gas station card readers.
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I'm most surprised that I work at a credit card processing company and I heard this news from MacRumors before I heard it at work. This is probably a consequence of going all remote... I'm stuck in my corner that focuses on taking payments online, so I don't hear about other people in the office who deal with POS transactions. This kind of info naturally spreads via organic "water cooler" conversation around the office, but now that we're siloed off and only interact with people who are officially working on the same projects as us...
We brought all the Facebook silos and Google bubbles and brought them into the workplace by going remote, to make everyone even more clueless about what they don't know.
I always carry cash.And will be completely obsolete when the time does arrive. In 8 years I expect we won't be carrying cards any more than cash.
I know there's some history there with Bank of America, but was it really a credit card back then or when they spun off it was like a rebirth?I remember when Visa was originally called BankAmericard.
It took too long to happen, but almost every retailer I go to here in New York and New Jersey now use the chip, but there’s the very occasional exception. I guess in other parts of the US, there may be more exceptions. I remember seeing the first card with a chip in Germany over twenty years ago, wondering how long it would take to get to the US.WHAT? You still use magnetic stripes in the US? Haven't seen one of those in years, let alone used one.
All I saw in that post was Portillo’s!!!I was just thinking about this the other day when I was at Portillo's. The cashier swiped my card 'the old fashioned way' and got me thinking: when are we ever going to get rid of the mag stripe?
My go-to is always going to be Pay via my Watch, followed by chip and then tapping my card to the wireless reader. Hate swiping.
WHAT? You still use magnetic stripes in the US? Haven't seen one of those in years, let alone used one.
Had to use the magnetic strip reader for the first time in ages the other day. It was at a gas station/convenience store. Their chip reader wasn't working. Only other method via card was to use the magnetic strip method.
And yeah, very few gas stations around here anyway allow contactless payments. Some show it on the pump, but almost every time the contactless feature wasn't working. Sad.
Around here at least, CostCo (a membership-based “big box” store) uses a combined credit card / membership card that can be used contactless at their gas pumps (which both checks your membership and pays for the gas). it’s where I get gas most of the time, so I haven’t run a mag stripe card through at a gas pump in a long time.Oh yes. VERY common at gas stations. It's very uncommon for me to use contactless at the pump.
The gas pumps will use a pin if it’s a debit card, but will require your home zip code for a credit card, as a sort of very weak “did you just find this card laying on the ground” test - because the pump has only a numeric keypad and no way to accept a signature (and yes, that’s archaic from every angle).US gas pump readers are weird... the times I've used that as a tourist, the reader doesn't want a pin but a zip code. Which it then won't recognize, as it's not a US 5 digit zip code.
US gas pump readers are weird... the times I've used that as a tourist, the reader doesn't want a pin but a zip code. Which it then won't recognize, as it's not a US 5 digit zip code.
Around here at least, CostCo (a membership-based “big box” store) uses a combined credit card / membership card that can be used contactless at their gas pumps (which both checks your membership and pays for the gas). it’s where I get gas most of the time, so I haven’t run a mag stripe card through at a gas pump in a long time.
Banks have everything to do with it. Make all of the ATM's NFC accessible and sunset physical cards in 3 years. Done.Banks have nothing to do with it. All the cards in the US are already issued with chips. Each business decides what type of reader to use.
That was only Apple Card - hopefully Apple hired someone from Visa or MasterCard to go through their systems and figure out WTF they did wrong that such a thing could ever happen.Digital only works when there's no outage.
Good thing that's never happened before
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Great idea? Really?
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My experience as well. I have a different gas station to go to get the points with the card.Oh yes. VERY common at gas stations. It's very uncommon for me to use contactless at the pump.
The biggest slap in the face was a Racetrack with "we've installed the latest security measures" sticker on the pump. Then when you put in your credit card the screen asked you to remove the card quickly. Yay for swiping.My experience as well. I have a different gas station to go to get the points with the card.
I don't understand when you talk about fails because I've never experienced one. Are they due to old junk card readers?
Hard to say. Sometimes it won't register and you just shrug your shoulders and pay with a card.