Orientation of new style cards

Cougar

Welcome to being left-handed.  We've been putting up with this sort of passive micro-hostility all our lives, it's normal.

I store my cards in my wallet upside-down otherwise they're !!!!!!-backwards when I come to present them.  These new portrait-orientation designs just make it equally irritating for everyone.

Scotjock

Being pedantic but the chip is in exactly the same place in each card... the designs are all different but the chip is exactly where it needs to be in order to be read...

Olenna

Rob5342 said:

The wise one looks the best, its easy to see the wise text when it's in a wallet, and when you take it out it's the right way round for putting in chip and pin machine. I'm not sure why they still have chips though, I'd hsve thought that the machine could still ask for a pin when using contactless. 

I've use the Wise eco card and it's much nicer than the old standard green one.
It's plain white, numberless, no signature strip and most importantly biodegradable. 

DullGreyGuy

Indout96 said:

IanManc said:

GTR_King said:

It will be ages before we go to Fully Digital Cards 

The "death of the phone" problem is especially relevant where I live, because if you have a tram ticket on your phone and the battery has died when the ticket inspectors get on then you can't show a ticket and you get a penalty fare. It's unlikely to happen with a single journey, but most tickets sold are returns / day tickets:

"My mobile phone battery died prior to inspection

You cannot appeal for this reason. Customers must be able to present a valid ticket on inspection. Please see the conditions of carriage."

I always wondered that on my odd trips on the Bus, use phone to pay but you don't get a ticket and it can take anything from 30 mins to several hours before the 10p first charge to show on banking app. (normally seconds in shops) The payment balance is 1 to 2 days later 
A bit worrying if an inspector gets on 

In London when the inspector gets on the driver gives him a code from the "ticket machine", guessing it's the ID of the machine. They put that code into their hand reader which can tap bank cards, Oyster cards etc. When you tap it either goes green for scanned or amber for no match. 

Dunno how it works in detail but you'd imagine the reader and the ticket machine are reporting the card numbers to a db, maybe in the ticket machine if they arent online, and its then returning a response if there is a match with the ticket machine. Seems to work as never been accused of not paying and have seen people offer up cards and then be told they hadn't tapped in.

TheRedHerring

Why are financial institutions making life more difficult for the vulnerably and elderly not putting the name of the institution clearly on the front and with the type of card, quite apart from having money to burn on creating new logos and cards.