Why not use the card?

Post #395,906 by pwhysall 10/31/14 1:42:12 AM 10/31/14 1:43:54 AM Reply	Why not use the card? Is it the lack of chip&pin? Everything's chip & pin over here. Contactless, too - saves lots of time for transactions up to £20. ETA: Here's how the contactless works: [wave card at reader box - same one that you'd put the card into, and then type your pin for a chip & pin transaction] [box goes beep] [there is no step three other than receiving your goods & receipt] Edited by pwhysall Oct. 31, 2014, 01:43:54 AM EDT Why not use the card? Is it the lack of chip&pin? Everything's chip & pin over here. Contactless, too - saves lots of time for transactions up to £20. Collapse All History
Post #395,911 by Another Scott 10/31/14 6:54:49 AM Reply	Chip and Pin is coming, but not here yet. The merchants and/or banks didn't want to pay for a bazillion new terminals. And the existing system was argued to be "good enough". But then a few hundred million card numbers, etc., got stolen from several big stores and they started figuring, "hmm... - maybe we need to do something more secure a little quicker". So, it's very rare here, but supposedly is supposedly going to be rolled out in a big way by October 2015. Presumably the new readers are going to be configured to accept C&P and RFID and NFC (or have ports to easily add it later) in case one or more of these things becomes popular. But who knows - maybe we'll all have to have iris scanning done in order to buy anything in the next few years... Cheers, Scott. (Who just noticed that Amazon is delivering on Sunday in this area. Sweet.)
Post #396,283 by scoenye 11/12/14 7:05:42 PM Reply	This is going to hurt We're with NCR following their buyout of Radiant. We've been trying to find out for weeks what our options are to add C&P to the terminals (some less than 6 months old). So far, crickets.
Post #396,286 by drook 11/12/14 8:04:38 PM Reply	And Verifone is backordered up to 12 weeks -- Drew

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