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MCX CEO Touts Loyalty Perks of CurrentC, Says There Are 'Consequences' for Breaking Exclusivity Terms
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I scan airline tickets from passbook on the TSA scanner just fine. No certain angle needed. Starbucks and CurrentC need this system if they want me to remotely think about using it.
The "consequences" are meaningless since they'll be out of business within a year.no one will use this system.
Based on the history around this forum, when people here react like this to a product or a service, totally the opposite thing happens
How would coupons/loyalty work?
Surely you want to check a discount is being applied before you pay, rather than scan hope and pray.
This would probably add another QR code scan before you pay to apply the discount. Slowing the transaction down even more. What a great system!!!
/fail
Surely you want to check a discount is being applied before you pay, rather than scan hope and pray.
This would probably add another QR code scan before you pay to apply the discount. Slowing the transaction down even more. What a great system!!!
/fail
What I want to know is that when are they rolling CurrentC to the rest of the world........ I can't wait....we been ready for this system since long....
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Exactly.
You want my bank account number, driver's license number, social security number and address???
They can't keep the network secure and it isn't even rolled out yet.
At least with a debit card or VISA that is compromised there is a limit to liability.
What limits on liability do you have if the other person has direct access to your bank???
No thanks. Use a credit card to process where I have protections or I can shop somewhere else. Oh, and I'm not installing anything else on my phone.
If I had an iPhone -> Apple Pay.
Android is Google Wallet.
Nothing else really matters. AT&T and Verizon with Softpay might as well go home too.
Here QR Codes are used by the railway company to read mobile tickets and the same issues you describe happens. The app has to switch the display at max brightness when you open the code and the reader always requires multiple scanning attemps.
Talking with one of the clerks he stated that reading codes printed on paper is much quicker and usually requires only one attemp, so maybe the issue is that for some reason reading from displays is more difficult or requires specialized scanners.
They made them an offer they couldn't refuse... Wonder if the MCX consortium members found a dead horse in their bed?
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Display don't have the predictable contrast of well printed text on white paper under good lighting. When scanning contrast if very important. That'S why people that say people are able to read text at 600 ppi make me laugh because those studies are done with paper in good lighting, not a phone.
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Display don't have the predictable contrast of well printed text on white paper under good lighting. When scanning contrast if very important. That'S why people that say people are able to read text at 600 ppi make me laugh because those studies are done with paper in good lighting, not a phone.
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I have no problem with CurrentC as long as there were no exclusivity agreements.
This would provide an equal playing field and may the best product win.
This would provide an equal playing field and may the best product win.
In the UK I have a loyalty card with Tesco which is a supermarket. When we pay by debit card or cash we just hand over our loyalty card which is attached to our keys as a tiny keyring and they swipe it.
I don't really see the big deal of still doing that. Pull out my iPhone, pay, then have them swipe my Tesco card for the loyalty points.
I'm also pretty sure Apple will come up with loyalty stuff for Apple Pay 2.0 - Everything can be defined in Software.
I don't really see the big deal of still doing that. Pull out my iPhone, pay, then have them swipe my Tesco card for the loyalty points.
I'm also pretty sure Apple will come up with loyalty stuff for Apple Pay 2.0 - Everything can be defined in Software.
I don't get it. America FINALLY has NFC payments after all these years and it'll still need dragging into three years ago because of lousy and late solutions such as this.
I just don't get it. CurrentC is a complete waste of everybody's time and nobody could care less about its perks because nobody is going to use it in a world where NFC is already a standard and far far superior to using bloody QR codes.
I don't get it.
I just don't get it. CurrentC is a complete waste of everybody's time and nobody could care less about its perks because nobody is going to use it in a world where NFC is already a standard and far far superior to using bloody QR codes.
I don't get it.
Don't knock it mate..... they may roll out CurrentC in the UK as well..... they are going to take over the entire world with this payment system,,,,
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Paid
Paid for my beer at a Brooklyn Nets Game last night. Third time using Apple Pay. Each time has been very fast. It really works. You just have too look for existing POS with NFC. Not having to launch an APP and authenticating with my thumb which is already on the phone to hold it is going to be tough to beat.
Paid for my beer at a Brooklyn Nets Game last night. Third time using Apple Pay. Each time has been very fast. It really works. You just have too look for existing POS with NFC. Not having to launch an APP and authenticating with my thumb which is already on the phone to hold it is going to be tough to beat.
That's great. And one day I am going to invent a widget that turns base metal into gold.
Apple Pay is here now. It works. This QR code nonsense is at best on beta test somewhere.
It's no use telling us all how amazing this system is if we can't actually use it.
If it is really that good, stop blocking Apple Pay and offer them side by side, the consumer will decide which system they like the best.
If they had played nice and offered their product and not tried to mess with Apple Pay I would have happily evaluated both systems, or used whichever system happened to be available in whichever store. But the extreme dickishness of Apple Pay blocking, and lack of privacy simply makes me want to avoid both their app and stores that support it.
Apple Pay is here now. It works. This QR code nonsense is at best on beta test somewhere.
It's no use telling us all how amazing this system is if we can't actually use it.
If it is really that good, stop blocking Apple Pay and offer them side by side, the consumer will decide which system they like the best.
If they had played nice and offered their product and not tried to mess with Apple Pay I would have happily evaluated both systems, or used whichever system happened to be available in whichever store. But the extreme dickishness of Apple Pay blocking, and lack of privacy simply makes me want to avoid both their app and stores that support it.
I found it funny that whilst Tescos own bank issue NFC cards, they don't accept NFC at the checkout. (At least in my local stores)
I understand that the £20 limit makes NFC unusable for 99% of customers and therefore pointless to install, (Which Apple Pay should hopefully cure), but at the time I tried to use it they were running a promotion on their credit cards, and each checkout had an oversized dummy card display on it, carrying the 'contactless' symbol, which made me, (and several others according to my brief chat with the cashier) think contactless payments were now being taken.
The self service tills have the option for NFC payments, but at present it's greyed out (in a few stores i've been to in the Greater Birmingham Area). Probably just waiting for the chip and pin devices to be upgraded.
there's a point missed here: he forgets that using AP or GW speeds up queues at the registers, while his method is probably slower than using a CC, which would lead to frustrated customers. Nobody likes to wait in line, least of all people who are about to pay you for something