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Contactless Cards
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It is possible to deactivate a contactless card.
1. You ask provider not to initialize the contactless part. It is a rfds chip.
2. Circuit loop can be disabled on the card by doing a bit of your own diy to the circuit.The more I live, the more I learn.
The more I learn, the more I grow.
The more I grow, the more I see.
The more I see, the more I know.
The more I know, the more I see,
How little I know.!!
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A credit card by definition cannot be contactless. You probably mean a contactless debit card.
I'm not sure on that one my MBNA credit card, amex and visa are both contactless...Thanks to money saving tips and debt repayments/becoming debt free I have been able to work and travel for the last 4 years visiting 12 countries and working within 3 of them. Currently living and working in Canada :beer: :dance:0 -
sazaccount wrote: »I'm not sure on that one my MBNA credit card, amex and visa are both contactless...
My AmEx is contactless too.The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.Bertrand Russell0 -
My barclay card platinum is contactless too
Sam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness:
People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.
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I see nothing in the definition that says it can't be contactless! For the record, I have two contactless credit cards, Halifax Clarity and Barclaycard. However, for the benefit of the OP, my Tesco Credit Card does not have contactless (although it's over a year since it's been issued).A credit card by definition cannot be contactless. You probably mean a contactless debit card.0 -
What's the Issue?Why so paranoid? Does anyone know anyone personally who had had funds taken through contactless payments? Contactless is fine and is a £20 limit a time.
I've used contactless for a long time as they were available in HK/Taiwan before they were available in the UK.
I find it really handy, but the main issue for me is "inadvertant" use when you have multiple cards. TfL in London regularly warn about "card clash" for people using public transport. For normal shopping, putting a transaction onto the wrong card might be no big deal (unless you go over a limit or go overdrawn). But for travelling, you might lose the benefit of a "cap" for the day and end up paying more.
The only solution I've seen is to drill a small hole through the chip. There are websites that show how to do this.0 -
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solentsusie wrote: »I find it very amusing when people on here state their own personal beliefs as though they are fact.
Lots of credit cards are now contactless.
Haha indeed. all my credit and debit cards are contactless, even my US issued cards where people deem them to be highly suspicious.0 -
Questions:sazaccount wrote: »I'm not sure on that one my MBNA credit card, amex and visa are both contactless...I see nothing in the definition that says it can't be contactless! For the record, I have two contactless credit cards, Halifax Clarity and Barclaycard. However, for the benefit of the OP, my Tesco Credit Card does not have contactless (although it's over a year since it's been issued).
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The debit part of the card might be contactless, not the credit card one.symphonies wrote: »HSBC credit card isn't contactless. However their debit card is.0 -
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