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MCX CEO Touts Loyalty Perks of CurrentC, Says There Are 'Consequences' for Breaking Exclusivity Terms

Dear CurrentC spokesperson, bite me. Your system is a joke and you will out of a job inside a year. Spend less time polishing that turd of a system and more time getting your resume in order.
 
I'm sure their mobile payment method will be extremely successful...
whenever both Apple and Google decide to remove the app from their app stores.

Yay! Good job on shooting yourself in the foot before you even got out of the gate.
***This is what I hope will happen for their pettiness.
 
Well done by Meijer

As a Meijer customer in Michigan, I am quite happy they have enabled Apple Pay.

I don't care what other systems they support, and frankly, it shouldn't even matter. If a Droid user wants to use his/her phone to buy their groceries, more power to them too.

This whole idea of "you have to use our e-wallet, you can't use yours"... seriously?

If you make the easiest system to use, you'll win the market. No need for "exclusivity agreements", you'll get that anyway if your technology is good.

As for me, Apple Pay is it; and now that I can make my most common purchase using that, the battle is already over in my view.
 
Fine, the transaction is anonymous to the retailer. However, you are still using their app, which undoubtedly collects identifiable marketing information and submits it to the MCX servers for their exclusive use.
 
CB1234 said:
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,,,,

/s
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Don't be sarcastic just yet, MCX has plans for Europe too, and let's not forget that ASDA is owned by Walmart.

(When I worked at Walmart, I was even able to check their inventory by changing check store to 10,000 miles!)
 
josh995 said:
I don't know if anyone else here has the same experience, my friends say they do, but I do use the Starbucks app to pay for my coffee when I go there, and the little reader they have sitting on the counter facing the customers scans the barcode on the phone screen. It NEVER immediately recognizes the code, it always takes a few seconds of me passing the phone over it at different angles. It is nowhere near as flawless as Apple Pay.

Same thing with the Best Buy app. I have my rewards info in there and when I have a certificate I want to use, they always try and scan the screen and sometimes it works, but takes them several tries, and sometimes it doesn't work at all and they have to enter it manually.
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May be there is an issue with the iPhone6/6+ in regards to having a adequate screen to allow a good scan.

I've never had issues with my BB certificates on my iPhone5S or 4S.
They scan on the first try as well as other coupons I've used at Target & various other stores.
 
If they want to block Apple Pay and Google Wallet, then both app stores should reject CurrentC flat out.
 
Radio said:
They charge fees to small companies that barely break even; they feed off people in debt.

I'd say credit card companies aren't angels
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Yeah but they can't do anything that people don't let them do. Sometimes you just have to take responsibility and stop blaming others for your problems. *thinks* Ohhh God now I sound like a conservative.
 
AdonisSMU said:
Yeah but they can't do anything that people don't let them do. Sometimes you just have to take responsibility and stop blaming others for your problems. *thinks* Ohhh God now I sound like a conservative.
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im not saying people aren't responsible but charging 22% interest and for people that shouldn't have gotten credit cards in the 1st place is not keeping the interests of a healthy society in mind.

so it's high interest rates and fees. essentially people will never get out of debt
 
Radio said:
im not saying people aren't responsible but charging 22% interest and for people that shouldn't have gotten credit cards in the 1st place is not keeping the interests of a healthy society in mind.

so it's high interest rates and fees. essentially people will never get out of debt
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Don't apply for cards that are 22% then, I have bad credit, and my cards are 12%-15% at the most.

-My bad credit is not due to cards, rather school, and medical bills. I pay all of my cards on time, and use them daily, as they have excellent fraud protection.

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hiroden said:
I don't really care about getting "points" on customer royalty cards anymore. Most of them don't give you any real benefit.
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These points usually work great for me, I always seem to pay only $2.60 a gallon in gas, thanks to these points.
 
dontwalkhand said:
Don't apply for cards that are 22% then, I have bad credit, and my cards are 12%-15% at the most.

-My bad credit is not due to cards, rather school, and medical bills. I pay all of my cards on time, and use them daily, as they have excellent fraud protection.

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These points usually work great for me, I always seem to pay only $2.60 a gallon in gas, thanks to these points.
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You aren't following

Those people should have never been qualified to have a credit card.

It's predatory
 
Again, the 2d barcodes Starbucks uses are not QR Codes. QR Codes should be easier to scan than those.
 
I understand the CEO has to put the interest of the company first but he sure sounds like an unethical person and makes me less want to attempt the use of MCX.
 
Radio said:
You aren't following

Those people should have never been qualified to have a credit card.

It's predatory
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Really, they couldn't say no. I say no to credit cards all day long. I only have one and could have 15 if I said yes to everyone. People need to take responsability for their actions and learn how to manage their money if they don't know how to do it.
 
Keirasplace said:
Really, they couldn't say no. I say no to credit cards all day long. I only have one and could have 15 if I said yes to everyone. People need to take responsability for their actions and learn how to manage their money if they don't know how to do it.
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I'm not disagreeing u but there is such a thing as predatory lending.
 
BrewsterMccloud said:
Walgreen's has embraced Apple Pay. They also have a very active "rewards" system that is tied to scanning a bar code on a card (I keep mine on my keychain) or to a login on their website. So you can have Apple Pay and also still have a rewards system that people use.
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This is what I mean, loyalty/rewards programs are already in place...see below. I would like to put these in my passbook, though, so, need stores with these cards to update their scanners to scan it in phones.
Rigby said:
Yep. That's why no one uses Paypal. :p
As it stands, the only way to do loyalty programs with Apple Pay is to use NFC *and* scan a QR code from Passbook. Doesn't sound terribly convenient to me. Luckily I have very little interest in loyalty programs, but many seem to like them.
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PayPal doesn't work with NFC, nor do I want it to, because of it being tied to my bank account. I won't use PayPal at a POS in a store, risk of being hacked. :p

What I mean is that stores already have loyalty/rewards programs in place, barcode or QR scan, no need to tie this to my payment. ...Credit cards already have rewards programs also, no need to scan anything. CurrentC is just using their rewards/loyalty program as a tactic, but, for it to truly be convenient, you would have to use CurrentC everywhere, eliminate all other cards, which means everyone that takes payments would have to use it. It just isn't going to happen, not realistic. Yeah, Apple is apparently going to do some sort of rewards program w/Pay, but, I'm just pointing out that CurrentC's loyalty/reward program is nothing new, nothing any better than what we already have. Now, if only kroger would make their u-scan scanners capable of scanning my rewards card from my iPhone/passbook I wouldn't need that keychain card. This is enough convenience for me. ...When I started using my best buy rewards with local store, opened app w/QR code, the first time, cashier didn't think it would work, I guess some phones don't, but, mine always does there (iPhone 5, now iPhone 6 also).
 
Just wondering

Checking out of Walgreens today, using my health savings account credit card on my iPhone 6, I wondered how will CurrentC work that account? Must be important to CVS and Rite Aid, who probably take a lot of payments from HSAs.

Also, I'm thinking this rash of bad publicity for CurrentC has probably been a good thing for MCX. Before this, nobody had ever heard of either CurrentC or MCX. Now everybody has, and we're all watching and waiting to see how it would work. I will use it if (1) it works and (2) I can control all of the various data collection settings. Being able to automatically use loyalty cards would be a big plus.
 
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