Contactless no longer contactless !

[AndyAudi]

This is really beginning to bother me
(I’m prob at Grumpy old man stage in life)

Three local shops I frequent now seem to always have to ask a question that needs to touch before if shows payment value.
“How was your queue time today?”
Or
“Do you want to give 10p to charity?”

I’ve taken to waiting a moment & then asking the cashier to press the button so I can use contactless, in the small hope that somewhere the increased transaction time is logged by a computer & they stop.asking.

(The charity one niggles more as I choose my charitable donations & would have no idea where that 10p goes.)

Scottish Co-op & Scotmids convenience stores, the latter might be getting an email of complaint…

[Jamescrs]

I.m finding this at the local supermarket which happens to be Asda at the moment. Always ignore it but at least you can see what the charity is.

A number of fuel stations just say donate (amount) to charity without actually saying what the charity is which doesn't seem right to me. In fairness though the cashier usually cancels that bit off automatically on the machine.

[slievenashaska]

AndyAudi said:

I ve taken to waiting a moment & then asking the cashier to press the button so I can use contactless, in the small hope that somewhere the increased transaction time is logged by a computer & they stop.asking.

I have been in several stores where the cashier has obviously got fed up with the whole thing, as they have instantly reached around and pressed the 'No' button as soon the payment amount has come up and before the customer has even had a chance to react to present a card or phone.

[croyde]

It's fking ridiculous

[Jasandjules]

Surely the answer is "No I would like large corporations who make billions in profit to donate to charity instead"

[Spare tyre]

It’s all very bizzare

I,shine your plumber asking if you’d like to donate a quid just after he’s serviced your boiler

[Sway]

In a similar vein, had to pop into a burger king recently whilst on the road.

After getting pissed off with repeatedly saying 'no' to the same things, I started counting.

An additional 16 more times I had to press 'no'.

Rage inducing.

[davek_964]

They must do it in phases. Last year, it was pretty much everywhere we shopped - but I've not seen it for quite a long time now.

I agree it's very very annoying

[croyde]

Yeah the McDonald's touch screen order thing is mind numbing.

Luckily I only go maybe twice a year.

But booking a flight, train ticket, online insurance all involve pages of ticking No!!!!

I'm actually glad that I'm at the last bit of my life as I'm finding everything bloody infuriating. Computers and the internet appear to have made things even more time consuming.

I have to press a button to start my car, another one twice at a certain speed to turn off the nannies, then another one to turn off more nanny stuff, that sits on my steering wheel.

Imagine Bodie leaping into his Ford to have to do all that before wheel spinning off

It's really uncool starting a car these days. We'll need checklists soon, like pilots of commercial jetliners.

[Blown2CV]

the contactless refers to the contact of the card on the terminal not any contact of your fingers. It's a payment thing not a germophobe thing.

[The Gauge]

The charity donation request is as equally annoying as the contstant emails from parcel companies asking 'How did we do'?
Well, considering their only job was to deliver my parcel, what do they want, a medal?

[Scabutz]

The Gauge said:

The charity donation request is as equally annoying as the contstant emails from parcel companies asking 'How did we do'?
Well, considering their only job was to deliver my parcel, what do they want, a medal?

Especially when said parcel is on my neighbours roof after the driver drop kicked it over the wall. Medal withheld.

[Cotty]

Blown2CV said:

the contactless refers to the contact of the card on the terminal not any contact of your fingers. It's a payment thing not a germophobe thing.

Yes but the OP is saying its not contactless if you have to touch the screen.

[ARH]

I sent evri an email asking for a review of myself as a customer, they didn't bother to reply so I won't reply to them anymore

[snuffy]

slievenashaska said:

I have been in several stores where the cashier has obviously got fed up with the whole thing, as they have instantly reached around and pressed the 'No' button as soon the payment amount has come up and before the customer has even had a chance to react to present a card or phone.

Ive seen that a lot in pubs as well. They cancel the tip option before they present you with the tappy machine.

Also, would restaurants to this; Arrive at your table with your bill, and say "Here's your bill sir, and would you like to pay an extra 10%"?

There's no difference.

[snuffy]

Blown2CV said:

the contactless refers to the contact of the card on the terminal not any contact of your fingers. It's a payment thing not a germophobe thing.

Contactless means not pressing any buttons (ie entering your PIN). And what's being described now requires buttons to be pressed, so clearly its no longer contactless.

[Granadier]

snuffy said:

Blown2CV said:

the contactless refers to the contact of the card on the terminal not any contact of your fingers. It's a payment thing not a germophobe thing.

Contactless means not pressing any buttons (ie entering your PIN). And what's being described now requires buttons to be pressed, so clearly its no longer contactless.

I've often thought that if you have to physically touch the card on the device, it shouldn't be called contactless!

[Cotty]

Granadier said:

I've often thought that if you have to physically touch the card on the device, it shouldn't be called contactless!

They don't have to physically touch.

[Blown2CV]

snuffy said:

Blown2CV said:

the contactless refers to the contact of the card on the terminal not any contact of your fingers. It's a payment thing not a germophobe thing.

Contactless means not pressing any buttons (ie entering your PIN). And what's being described now requires buttons to be pressed, so clearly its no longer contactless.

no, it refers to the CARD. The payment can be made without the card touching the machine. The novel thing was that it uses near field comms and not a technology that requires contact like the chip or the magnetic stripe. It has fk all to do with your fingers. What would be the point in financial infrastructure investing billions upon billions in a technology to allow you to not have to press a terminal button when you still have to touch the goods themselves, baskets, door handles and whatever else?

[Blown2CV]

Granadier said:

snuffy said:

Blown2CV said:

the contactless refers to the contact of the card on the terminal not any contact of your fingers. It's a payment thing not a germophobe thing.

Contactless means not pressing any buttons (ie entering your PIN). And what's being described now requires buttons to be pressed, so clearly its no longer contactless.

I've often thought that if you have to physically touch the card on the device, it shouldn't be called contactless!

you don't. Next time you do it instead of whacking the card constantly on the machine and the cashier rolling their eyes at the boomering taking place in front of them, do it from like 1cm away. It works.