PIN Numbers

James

Q. Do you use your Credit Cards for cash withdrawals?

If the answer is no, never then why not change all your Credit Cards to Chip & Signature?

A Chip & Signature Card is much more cardholder 'friendly' when it comes to a disputed transaction when fraud is committed.

jumpycheese1

I once lost my card. Phoned up my bank and got a new card and PIN. The PIN I was sent was the PIN I had!

never-in-doubt

jumpycheese1 wrote: »

I once lost my card. Phoned up my bank and got a new card and PIN. The PIN I was sent was the PIN I had!

LOL freaky - sometimes though if you get a replacement PIN it is the same as the one you use.... but I know someone that changed his pin, lets say to 8494 and then he got a credit card with a different bank and guess what the pin was? you guessed it 8494! funniest thing was thats the years of birth of his kids (1984/1994).... spooky!

SwissLe

never-in-doubt wrote: »

You know what though mate, i've never seen any bank that issue a debit and credit card that look the same and until they do, i'll never buy the notion that people mistook the cards - they may be numpties yea, but not mistakes.

Debit cards have debit on them whereas credit do not. Quite simple really....

Sorry, just don't believe what i'm reading - load of nonsense. If you're telling me that a half eductaed person cannot remember a 4 digit number then we all have issues - not just them

LOL :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

First Direct Visa and Maestro cards looks almost identical apart from the logo in the corner differing. There is no debit or credit written on them, it would be an easy mistake in a rush!

ElkyElky

ILW wrote: »

Its NOT a PIN Number, it makes no sense.

Yah. It's obviously and clearly an error. Considering I had only just woken up seconds before starting this topic, I'm quite surprised I had not messed it up more.

Brian1966

ElkyElky wrote: »

Yah. It's obviously and clearly an error. Considering I had only just woken up seconds before starting this topic, I'm quite surprised I had not messed it up more.

I'm going to go and buy some petrol now and IF the assistant so much as DARES to say "enter your PIN number" I will give them a lecture on correct terminology just for the hell of it :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

ElkyElky

Brian1966 wrote: »

I'm going to go and buy some petrol now and IF the assistant so much as DARES to say "enter your PIN number" I will give them a lecture on correct terminology just for the hell of it :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I hear them say it all the time. Never really took much notice. I'm sure that'll be quite amusing, correcting everyone who says it.

It must be like one of those weird things people have a habbit of saying.. just like people saying 'o' instead of ZERO when speaking phone numbers. :rotfl:

never-in-doubt

SwissLe wrote: »

First Direct Visa and Maestro cards looks almost identical apart from the logo in the corner differing. There is no debit or credit written on them, it would be an easy mistake in a rush!

Sorry mate - I cannot comprehend that mis-reading visa/maestro as a legible excuse lol

comeone, it'd be easier to miss the word debit. But in principle, you know what i'm trying to say - that people should know what card does what!

bigbum_2

ElkyElky wrote: »

I hear them say it all the time. Never really took much notice. I'm sure that'll be quite amusing, correcting everyone who says it.

It must be like one of those weird things people have a habbit of saying.. just like people saying 'o' instead of ZERO when speaking phone numbers. :rotfl:

Yeah, i say 'o' instead of 'zero', but i've noticed when i say it to foreign call centres they always correct me .

As for pin numbers , i can't remember them as well as i used to (old age i'm afraid). So now i have just 2 pin numbers for all my cards. I don't have to remember which card has which pin. If i tap in the wrong pin the 1st time then i'm guaranteed to get it right the 2nd time . I don't like the idea of having the same pin number for all my cards, so this works for me.

bigbum x

dc110

It must be like one of those weird things people have a habbit of saying.. just like people saying 'o' instead of ZERO when speaking phone numbers.

or mix and matching between "zero" and "nought" and "oh"

"my phone number is zero seven oh eight nought ...."

how annoying!