Worked for me yesterday with my Amex at Redmond, WA HD. They had the same new terminals as Target & Fred Meyer, neither of which had NFC enabled yet.
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what home depot the one on 82nd does not show the right terminal or am I missing something?
I went to the one on Murray right off US26. They had the newer terminals at the self check out, I pressed the debit/credit option and then held my phone up the terminal and it just worked.
I had it work today at Home Depot in Waltham, MA. It worked both at the self checkout and at a staffed checkout. The cashier had no clue what I was doing but it went through automatically. There was no NFC symbol on the POS terminal but after choosing pay by credit, it shows up on the screen. I used an Amex.
Amazing, that's the HD store where it didn't work for me this weekend
but my ApplePay is set up with a MasterCard, not Amex, and that seems to be a consistent theme for HD.
based on posting here that Amex and Visa work at HD but not Master card.
I went back to Jersey Mike's Sub that previously rejected my Apple pay using BoA Master card. This time I use Apple pay with Amex. it worked!!!
I will try HD with Amex when I get a chance.
I got an email from BoA that they support Apple Pay. what is wrong with Master card (Bank of America)?
I went back to Jersey Mike's Sub that previously rejected my Apple pay using BoA Master card. This time I use Apple pay with Amex. it worked!!!
I will try HD with Amex when I get a chance.
I got an email from BoA that they support Apple Pay. what is wrong with Master card (Bank of America)?
Home Depot isn't an official supporter of Apple Pay. It supports Apple Pay only unofficially so it isn't surprising that it works inconsistently among the various issuers.
does it matter if HD is not official suppoter when they have NFC? For retailer with NFC, paying using Apple Pay is the same as google pay or any CC card with NFC. even apple pay works at CVS and RiteAid before they disabled it.
The same happened to me at Jersey Mike's sub, only Amex worked.
I'm not sure why it isn't working with certain issuers such as BofA MC but it can't be just any NFC. It has to support tokenization, meaning it may not work on older NFC-enabled terminals that do not support tokenization. In this case, it's possible that BofA MC isn't set up to receive tokenization properly from retailers not on Apple's official list. Just a guess.
Retailer NFC is like a highway connecting between buyers and banks. it does not care what cars or trucks are going through. what matter is whether the bank (BoA) can take car (swipe) or truck (reading the tokens).
that is why Apple Pay works for at any readers that has NFC.
So something must be blocking the ability to read tokens, as BofA MC seems to work at official Apple Pay retailers but not unofficial ones like Home Depot and Jersey Mike's Sub.
again, officail retail or unoffical ones do not matter. what matter is 1) the Bank supports apple pay. 2) retail has NFC
as mentioned earlier, apple pay worked at CVS and RiteAid previsouly who were not on apple support list.
if HD blocks the apple pay, it would not work for any CC using apple pay, including Amex.
So using that logic, care to explain why BofA MC won't work with Home Depot and Jersey Mike's Sub despite 1) BofA supporting Apple Pay and 2) those retailers having NFC? Like I said, I don't have an answer myself and can only speculate.
For those where the MC isn't working, is your store listed in the MC Nearby app for contactless?
Mine is, which surprised me. I haven't had a chance to run and buy the switch I need, maybe I will do that today and try it. HD was my first hacked card, at the tail end of the window....
Mine is, which surprised me. I haven't had a chance to run and buy the switch I need, maybe I will do that today and try it. HD was my first hacked card, at the tail end of the window....
Good question. My local HD isn't listed in the MC Nearby app but I was able to use Apple Pay with my Amex card at the self-checkout.
I went and bought my switch, which is proving to have been the easy part of the ordeal. My ex took all the tools, and the kids ran off with my needle-nose pliers. Oh and one side of the breaker was labeled ?, and when we discovered it was the bathroom.... I had the teen go to write m. Bath on it. Only to have it flip over and say that..... Ye gads.
ANYWAY, my MC was a no go at my Home Depot despite showing contactless in the app. It read it, but the screen failed it 3 times (self-checkout).
The cashier was going to ask, and one of the managers came up to buy a soda and so she asked him about it.
All he knew was that it was Not supposed to work right now, his information had given him a roll out for the end of the month.
That would explain why it is hit and miss, and working with Amex. I'm assuming it is rolling out.
The nice thing was, they didn't say it would never work. Just not yet, and I was her first one to try it! lol,
In the end I swiped the card, which is new, and hope that when I go to buy paint next month it is working!
ANYWAY, my MC was a no go at my Home Depot despite showing contactless in the app. It read it, but the screen failed it 3 times (self-checkout).
The cashier was going to ask, and one of the managers came up to buy a soda and so she asked him about it.
All he knew was that it was Not supposed to work right now, his information had given him a roll out for the end of the month.
That would explain why it is hit and miss, and working with Amex. I'm assuming it is rolling out.
The nice thing was, they didn't say it would never work. Just not yet, and I was her first one to try it! lol,
In the end I swiped the card, which is new, and hope that when I go to buy paint next month it is working!