But I make contactless payments using my credit card.
Using a credit card in America requires touching the credit card device unless it is the rare situation that a signature is not required. Thus, it is typically not contactless.
But I make contactless payments using my credit card.
Now that I think about it, I actually don't have reliable information about which stores require signatures for their credit cards and which don't. That's partly because I typically do almost all of my shopping online and partly because I've only been to three grocery stores and one laundry since the caronavirus crisis began. Of those four stores, two of them require signatures.
I consider a credit card device to be contactless if I don't have to provide a signature.
$50 here which is probably a similar amount. The guy who stole my card had several $50 withdrawals using paywave.Here in the UK contactless is limited to £30 per single transaction.
If an odd pattern of purchases is detected (too many transactions in too short a timeframe) then the terminal blocks it and the PIN must be entered.
Good list, I learnt or confirmed the following previous learning (I will not mention the elephant in the room):In the future, I'll look back and remember that it was because of this unusual time that I learned the following terms, information and practices:
- novel coronavirus
- COVID-19 (CO stands for corona; VI for virus; D for disease; and 19 for 2019)
- Wuhan
- that the Spanish flu of 1918 probably was not Spanish
- that in the decade beginning in 2010 the common flu killed more than 30,000 Americans on average every year and about 60,000 in the worst year
- contact detection
- social distancing
- how to make a face mask
- exponential curve of a virus
- flattening the curve
- contactless payment
- contactless delivery
Family matters
true, will edit my listFriends also matter.
I’m in CA and tests cost nothing. I doubt they’re paying $9,000. Is supposed to be free in the US.Looking at the figures, another 20 000 in the USA. The title says "confirmed cases" so I'm just wondering if they include "probable" cases or if that is only people who have paid for a proper test?
A friend in Texas says it costs $9000 for the test where she is.
We're paying $120 per test.
That article was published just 10 days ago, and we already have 1 million more cases!Someone finally analyzed ALL the numbers, not just the tested/hospitalized/deaths. Overall mortaility rate of Covid less than one percent and about seven times that of typical flu. Read it here. I've been saying this for weeks. Quit listening to the press and look at the DATA. Particularly where it has run its course like the Princess cruise ship and South Korea. Forget about data coming out of China. Who knows what's going on behind closed doors.
I use Apple Pay through my phone whenever it is offered. As you mention, I select my credit card of choice (VISA for me)--so I still earn the rewards. I get notification within seconds of the charge through my phone. If someone else were to use my credit card for some unauthorized purpose, I would get immediate notification of that as well.Whenever I can I usually pay using my phone. On the phone I just decide which card I want to use, select it, hit a button on side of phone and payments made. I still get any rewards that I would have gotten if I just used manually paid with the card. Very convenient and actually faster than inserting the card.
Wish gas pumps would use it as we have had problems with a couple of stations where criminals are capturing information from cc when inserted into the pump. Apparently happens more with Visa than with AMEX.
Some 20-30 years ago Mobil had a key fob you could get, that you just had to wave at their pumps. You assign a certain card to it, but it would only work at their gas stations. The technology has been around for a long time I’m surprised it’s not more widely implemented by now.Whenever I can I usually pay using my phone. On the phone I just decide which card I want to use, select it, hit a button on side of phone and payments made. I'll also use the app on my watch to do the same if my phones in a backpack or pocket and just don't want to take it out. I still get any rewards that I would have gotten if I just used manually paid with the card. Very convenient and actually faster than inserting the card.
Wish gas pumps would use it as we have had problems with a couple of stations where criminals are capturing information from cc when inserted into the pump. Apparently happens more with Visa than with AMEX.
It's my understanding that paying electronically by phone is not only more convenient, but also more secure. The merchant doesn't even see my credit card information--so that reduces the chance of fraud.
Usually it is a question of IP and licensing fees, upgrade costs...Some 20-30 years ago Mobil had a key fob you could get, that you just had to wave at their pumps. You assign a certain card to it, but it would only work at their gas stations. The technology has been around for a long time I’m surprised it’s not more widely implemented by now.