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Is this usual?
pmduk
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I bought some cinema tickets yesterday from a ticket machine at the local cinema. The machine just issued the tickets without asking for my pin. Is this normal? It's the first time I've used one of these machines.
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Was this an online purchase collected at the machine - or the full automated purchase done at the cinema. If the latter I would be speaking to the cinema management (for whatever good it would do)Not as green as I am cabbage looking0
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It was a full automated purchase, I prefer not to book online, I don't like paying the service charge if I can avoid it.0
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The only time I've experienced this (i.e. paying for something without having to enter a PIN) is at NCP car parks. You can pay for your car parking just by putting your debit card in the machine. It debits the amount without asking for a PIN - and in fact there's no facility on the machine for you to enter one.
I always get a reciept printed and I've never had any problems with unauthorised payments.0 -
Yep - our cinema does the same thing. You pick your ticket, seats etc, pop the card in and then it just comes straight back out! I figure they think why would someone by cinema tickets with a stolen card but yes it is dodgy I think!House saving Targets:
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Birmingham Bull Ring car park thingy does the same. Card in...and after about a minute I realised it said "Thank you, your card has been debitted". I was sure I hadn't put my pin in...the joys of technology and possible cloned card fraud!0
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Could your card be one of the "touch" type of card that some of the banks are introducing? They strike me as worrying if no pin is needed.0
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They also do it on toll roads
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Could your card be one of the "touch" type of card that some of the banks are introducing? They strike me as worrying if no pin is needed.
No a full authorisation Visa Debit card, I stood there for a full minute waiting for the pin screen to appear, before realising it had already issued the ticket! I don't like the idea of contactless cards either. I don't even trust the oyster card on my rare trips to London.0 -
Tescos self-service tills & 'pay at the pump' petrol stations do not require PINs for transactions under £50. Explains why so many pick-pockets shop there.Never Knowingly Understood.
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