Did you have trouble signing your Sainsbury's Mastercard?

chattychappy

Sounds ridiculous, I know. But I just received a Sainsbury's Mastercard (18months 0% on purchases and balance transfers, double Nectar points or something). £12K limit.

Firstly, it's not contactless. That's a pity, but never mind.

Here's the stupid thing. I can't sign it. I usually use a ballpoint pen for sig strips - but with this one they all skate over the surface without producing ink. I tried a small marker pen (don't like those cos with effort you can wipe the ink off, even if permanent). The ink seemed didn't seem to take properly. The sig strip itself looks OK. It's as if there is some sort of chemical barrier over it.

With chip'n'pin in the UK, I'll probably never need the sig. Overseas I'll use a different card anyway.

Never had this issue before. I wonder if anybody else has?

stator

Yeah, sometimes had that problem. Have you tried a gel pen?

EarthBoy

Try one of those pens that you can write on CDs with.

Gaz83

Get a Sharpie.

chattychappy

Have a sharpie and a CD pen. They are not working either - the ink won't settle, it shrinks. Weird. Never normally have a problem. Something about this sig strip.

Don't have a gel pen though!

henrik1971

When I saw this title of this thread, I thought "finally someone has the same problem as me!", but the issue I have is slightly different, however, surely I can't be the only one.

My issue is the shape of the signature strip. Most of the ones on my cards are very long and narrow, yet my signature is very tall in height and short in length. If I scale the tall letters down to fit the signature strip, the other letters are so small as to be indiscernable, and the entire thing measures about 4mm in length. Hopeless.

Problem is I can't change my signature to suit these card companies. My job involves me signing my name several times a day and it looks brill on normal documents.

How have other people managed?

Gaz83

henrik1971 wrote: »

How have other people managed?

I haven't signed any of my cards for years now, since chip and pin came into use.

callum9999

henrik1971 wrote: »

When I saw this title of this thread, I thought "finally someone has the same problem as me!", but the issue I have is slightly different, however, surely I can't be the only one.

My issue is the shape of the signature strip. Most of the ones on my cards are very long and narrow, yet my signature is very tall in height and short in length. If I scale the tall letters down to fit the signature strip, the other letters are so small as to be indiscernable, and the entire thing measures about 4mm in length. Hopeless.

Problem is I can't change my signature to suit these card companies. My job involves me signing my name several times a day and it looks brill on normal documents.

How have other people managed?

Yes you can... Just use a different signature on the back of your card to what you use at work. I can't imagine there ever being a scenario where they'll be compared!

Abbafan1972

We got a new Halifax mastercard through this week and hubby couldn't sign on that either. Tried with a biro and it just about wrote on!

I made the same comment about whether we needed it signing nowadays with chip and pin and people don't need to see the signature.

stator

It's still possible to sign for items in some shops so you should definitely sign it in case your card gets stolen

System

I used a pen for writing on writeable DVD/CDs if a gel pen doesn't work.

Personally, I do occasionally sign for transactions in the UK and often in USA / Canada.