Just saw this! What do people think?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p031bvm3
And while I know you shouldn't wave a red rag at a bull, anyone seen SaracenOriginally Posted by BBC
Just saw this! What do people think?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p031bvm3
And while I know you shouldn't wave a red rag at a bull, anyone seen SaracenOriginally Posted by BBC
Wow. I really, really hope this sort of thing doesn't catch on. I mean, I really have to hope and believe that people are sufficiently sensible to ignore/laugh at this.
I suppose the argument will be about convenience but come on, there's convenience and then there's whatever this is.
Madness.
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A jacket? Why a jacket?! I can understand a wristband, watch or even a ring to put on your finger. However a jacket doesn't seem to make any sense at all to me.
I have no objection to this at all .... providing it isn't made compulsory to wear them.
My objection to contactless cards, which is visceral, isn't that they're available but that financial institutions increasingly won't let any of us that don't want one have non-contactless .... at least, for credit cards.
My new credit card (a couple of months back) arrived as contactless. I rang the bank wanting non-contactless. Nope, not available. I said, fine, disable ALL contactless transactions, because I don't want it used that way, and don't want any risk of liability. Nope, can't do it. How about requiring a PIN for first use, then not sending me the PIN, so any contactless transactions CAN'T have been authorised by me, as I've never had or known the PIN. Nope, can't do that.
I HAD to have contactless capability, they said. Well, they were wrong. I closed the account and shredded the card.
What REALLY irks me, though, is that short of closing the account, they FORCED contactless on me, when I absolutely, categorically don't want it, then claim contactless is a success because millions more people have it. Liars.
So, when I get around to it, maybe I'll hunt around for a bank that still issues non-contactless cards .... and see how long that lasts.
For those of us that want contactless, and find them convenient, fine. Your choice. But I have no desire for, no need for, no use for and absolutely no intention of having, one.
nichomach (14-09-2015)
When I saw the thread title I assumed this was some kind of jacket to put your card in to nullify the contactless aspect. I wonder if such a thing exists? If not... Dragons Den here I come!
You can sort of get those, but you have to take the card out to actually use it. Not sure if you can get a material snug enough fitting to keep the card in it while inserting the card into a machine.
I used to have a shielded wallet so stuff in my wallet was surrounded by foil. Worked well for a few years, then the shielding started to fail.
30 seconds in a microwave oven should be sufficient to destroy the NFC aspect of the card. Of course, it will probably nuke the chip as well, but the magnetic strip should survive so you can still swipe and sign.
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get a foreign card? people still swipe and sign those (or lose the business). but yeah. when i first got a contactless card a few years back i asked them if that aspect of it can be disabled. nope.
i don't think there's any bank that has non-contactless cards nowadays, is there?
ps.. totally didn't understand the part about pin. if you have a card with no pin, it can't be used (aside from swipe.. which i don't think people will swipe if there's a chip on it). and i don't think they do separate pins for contactless and chip. (they said after a few contactless transactions it'll ask for a pin transaction or some such)
I've had the chip part fail in the past (not due to microwaving!) - trying to swipe it just gives a message "use chip instead", so some component of the system obviously "knows" the card was a chip-equipped one where the stripe was only a fallback. Of course, since the chip was faulty, trying to use that just gave a message to try swiping it instead, which got me back to being told to use the chip. At which point, I used my backup card instead.
Quite why banks won't allow you to disable contactless payment, I don't know! I rather like it myself - I even got one of the early stick-on contactless mini-cards from Barclaycard when those came out, before regular cards had that feature built-in.
In the mean time, you could always use Amex: mine has the contactless logo and some support for the feature, but paying that way doesn't actually work (the message refers to some sort of security check, which seems to suggest they need to enable that feature for you before it will work - which is exactly what you're after, AFAICT?)
Personally I don't get all the paranoia about it. Contact less payments have made my life so much easier.
Who's ever actually had a card read or the details fraudulently taken due to the NFC element? Horror stories a plenty, but looking for less scaremongering actual facts! Compared to taking details over the phone, people emailing them, or posting pictures online (yes it's happened!) I suspect the percentage is quite small. Plus it's capped and any rogue charges refunded.
In certain circumstances I'd say not having to even get a wallet out of your pocket might be advantageous! Even with the variations of mobile payment brandishing a phone could make you an easy target.
Depends if you're talking about American Express directly or one of the third parties that use their systems. My MBNA card uses Amex and for 95% of contactless terminals works no problem at all. Don't believe they have a way of disabling the feature. It's present on all cards. But that's not a problem personally. If a bank/card company didn't have the ability for contactless transactions I'd actively close my account and switch.
Have talked to shop assistants who love it, makes their life faster and easier. But for me, I have to choose which contactless card to use, so I have to take the card out of the wallet anyway. At that point I have wasted more time than the few seconds it takes to enter a pin.
I have in the past gone to pay with my main card (not contactless enabled) and my wallet got too close to the payment terminal so it beeped that it was trying to pay with something in my wallet. So now I find myself doing an odd shuffle trying to keep my cards away from the terminal while at the same time presenting my actual payment card. Using one hand to enter pin and another to shield the pin from the numerous cameras always pointing at checkouts (against EMV guidlines) means I have to put the wallet back in my pocket only to take it back out again seconds later to put the card back.
For me, contactless is a pain. It isn't paranoia, just impracticalities of use.
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