Aqua Contactless Abroad

JGUK

Candyapple wrote: »

I have tried Clarity, Creation and Santander for contactless in Italy, Amsterdam, Cyprus and they didn't work in any of those countries.

When I travel abroad most of my cards DO work, so its just a strange quirk that Aqua seemed to have it blocked.

Oh well.

System

stevenhp1987 wrote: »

Apple Pay & Android Pay are pushing the roll-out of Contactless in the USA. There are still few Chip & PIN terminals though...

Most of my transactions were still old swipe and sign!

I was in the US a few weeks ago (using Clarity mostly)

They still used swipe and sign extensively, very occasionally chip and pin. With low value transaction, they swiped and gave me the card back - this seemed instead of contactless

I saw the contactless logo and tried my card, but their tills didn't appear to detect my card.

AllieKat

Candyapple wrote: »

I'm pretty sure every single UK credit card provider has the same policy in that contactless works in the UK only and not abroad, so good luck with that.

I have tested Halifax Clarity, Creation card and also Santander Zero credit card abroad for contactless payments and all have failed.

Definitely not. I can confirm that Halifax Clarity and MBNA Everyday Plus both work overseas, no problems at all (well, except MBNA Everyday Plus declines for magstripe emulation contactless mode - an old, insecure contactless mode still widely used in the US. I haven't tested the Clarity in the US, except for one transaction on a US terminal that was in the UK and was EMV mode contactless enabled - that worked fine, but I don't know if magstripe mode will. The one I know for sure will work with magstripe mode is Monzo, since they've been advertising this - only their most recent card, though).

username

Contactless is very rare I found when I was out in the US, many places were still swipe and sign and occasionally chip and PIN (which was very slow, not surprised US citizens hate it). I have the Clarity from Halifax and worked fine on contactless on a vending machine, and in a shop.
Although it's strange when I got back my cards which I had used out there had fraud on via cardholder not present transactions via the internet, so swipe and sign is certainly not without its risk - I suspect the POS terminal(s) in a place I had been to were compromised and thus how they were able to obtain card details.