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| dr.diesel:
--- Quote from: Halcyon on June 27, 2020, 12:31:26 am ---This almost never happens in Australia. --- End quote --- Here in the US is completely different, all restaurants take your card behind the counter, scan it and bring it back, completely out of sight often times. At Wings Etc two days ago she had my card for 10 minutes before it was brought back. |
| Halcyon:
--- Quote from: dr.diesel on June 27, 2020, 12:38:46 am --- --- Quote from: Halcyon on June 27, 2020, 12:31:26 am ---This almost never happens in Australia. --- End quote --- Here in the US is completely different, all restaurants take your card behind the counter, scan it and bring it back, completely out of sight often times. At Wings Etc two days ago she had my card for 10 minutes before it was brought back. --- End quote --- To be fair, you guys also use cheques. I can count on one hand where I've ever had to write or cash a cheque in my entire life. Get with the times America ;-) I barely even use cash anymore. I can honestly say I don't remember when I last paid for something, let alone handled cash. At a guess, I'd say 6 months or more? |
| dr.diesel:
--- Quote from: Halcyon on June 27, 2020, 12:50:25 am ---To be fair, you guys also use cheques. I can count on one hand where I've ever had to write or cash a cheque in my entire life. Get with the times America ;-) I barely even use cash anymore. I can honestly say I don't remember when I last paid for something, let alone handled cash. At a guess, I'd say 6 months or more? --- End quote --- I don't disagree, just the option of not having the number printed on the card would help a bunch. And yeah checks are HORRIBLE, I always get stuck behind somebody slowly writing a check, especially at the farm/utility/hardware stores. |
| Brumby:
--- Quote from: dr.diesel on June 27, 2020, 12:38:46 am --- --- Quote from: Halcyon on June 27, 2020, 12:31:26 am ---This almost never happens in Australia. --- End quote --- Here in the US is completely different, all restaurants take your card behind the counter, scan it and bring it back, completely out of sight often times. At Wings Etc two days ago she had my card for 10 minutes before it was brought back. --- End quote --- I would refuse to let the card out of my possession, let alone out of my sight. I would be quite prepared to go for a walk and use the machine myself - and if they had a problem with that, then payment of the bill will be problematic. |
| gnif:
--- Quote from: greenpossum on June 26, 2020, 04:27:50 pm --- --- Quote from: gnif on June 26, 2020, 03:56:04 pm ---No, it is not, the cards still have a mag strip on them but only for backwards compatibility with foreign countries. You can not use the strip in Australia. --- End quote --- Of course you still can. Lots of card terminals still have the magstripe reader. It's the second fall back after NFC and chip. --- End quote --- A colleague of mine works for a company that configures and services these units, unless it has been specifically requested, there is a valid reason for the request AND the bank authorizes it, by default the mag strip is no longer usable in Aus, even as a fallback. There is also an additional monthly fee and you wave protections as a merchant due to the lower security of the device as the responsibility is now on the merchant more than ever to prevent fraud. Many countries have also completely blocked the use of the mag strip specifically due to fraud and many POS machines today do not even have the ability to read the mag strip. |
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