Contactless Cards: Good news??

Fingerbobs

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

I've seen some online videos, demonstrating them, and they appear to work.

A car isn't earthed, yet it reduces the strength of incoming radio waves.

Worth £2.94 to give it a try out of interest! Just ordered one from Amazon.

[Deleted User]

You could give it a try, at a convenient Tap and Pay terminal.

Fingerbobs

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

You could give it a try, at a convenient Tap and Pay terminal.

My local M&S has Contactless terminals, which I use regularly. I'll go at a quiet time and ask if they mind if I try out the shield. I'm sure they will be quite happy.
Could also try it with Oyster, and put up with the disgruntled tutting and sighing from behind when the card won't work and I fumble to get it out of the pouch

thmaga

There seems to be a varied approach to contactless by different banks.

A few months back Halifax claimed they would only offer them to Reward Current Account customers. They did however give one to a friend of mine after some ringing about. When the card broke and needed replacing they sent a standard one back..

In Lloyds the advisor there didn't know what contactless was, or how to request a card.
She spent 10 minutes reading up on it on the intranet site, then eventually found out how to request one - it was a manual process that involved filling out a paper form.

It seems Barclays are really eager to offer them.

Their popularity is increasing though so i can see the picture rapidly changing.


Quite a few places seem to accept them now too, and I notice lots of places have Contactless capable terminals that are yet to have the feature enabled. There is something quite satisfying about the speed of paying with it!

planteria

great contribution DD:T

thmaga wrote: »

Their popularity is increasing though so i can see the picture rapidly changing.!

no doubt. they're coming in, like it or not. i quite like it's convenience, but it will be interesting how things are handled if there is a fraudulent transaction, and the idea of physically disabling the cards is always something to fall back. more difficult with Mastercards though, i now understand.

what about Amex? is it in the Chip, or around the whole card?

Fingerbobs

thmaga wrote: »

I notice lots of places have Contactless capable terminals that are yet to have the feature enabled.

I wonder how often this is that the terminal is Contactless-enabled, but the cashier doesn't understand Contactless and just tells you to use chip+pin.

I had to talk the girl behind the counter in my local KFC into using Contactless the other day. It worked perfectly when she did it, but she had no idea the feature existed prior to that.

Buzby

DieselDragon wrote: »

Theoretically, it could be detected automatically the next time the card is presented to a Chip+PIN terminal and the card reports no electrical continuity along the RFID antenna.

The above is entirely possible with technology that is already in place. However I don't know if any banks or card issuers have their cards self-check and report back to them at present.

Everything works 'in theory' but I ditched RF envelope sleeves when I discovered my three cards generated so much interfernce none were accepted.

After discounting this, you then suggest that a Contactless card using C+P will be flagged as somehow faulty? Yet a multiple card presentation will result in this and NO fault exists! Having used RFID cards for nearly 2 years I have yet to see (when multiple cards are presented in a wallet) a successful debit take place, and I've done this over 130 times until it got boring. In isolation, yes the best I managed was 45cm fom the reader - but in the pack, not one.