http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/368119/big- ... e-payments
I'll just carry on using my credit card
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| Author: | pcernie [ Sun Jun 19, 2011 1:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Big four networks team up for mobile payments |
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/368119/big- ... e-payments I'll just carry on using my credit card
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| Author: | Amnesia10 [ Sun Jun 19, 2011 7:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Big four networks team up for mobile payments |
It all depends on how they will make it pay. If the charges are ridiculous then the service will get no where. |
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| Author: | koli [ Sun Jun 19, 2011 8:01 pm ] | |||||||||
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Do you pay for a coffee or a newspaper with a credit card? I wish Costa would introduced "wave and pay". Nero has it and it is brilliant, much faster than hunting down the change... |
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| Author: | ProfessorF [ Sun Jun 19, 2011 8:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Big four networks team up for mobile payments |
So how's this work? Are the providers adding a transaction fee? What's the security like if I lose my phone? Someone could, presumably, be 'waving and paying' their way through my account. Colour me sceptical. |
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| Author: | koli [ Sun Jun 19, 2011 8:41 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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So you are sceptical but you don't know how it works. Seems pretty irrational to me.
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| Author: | ProfessorF [ Sun Jun 19, 2011 9:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Big four networks team up for mobile payments |
Yeah... I'm sceptical because all I've been told is that there's this 'great' idea where we wave a phone and pay for something. Which sounds [LIFTED]. |
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| Author: | rustybucket [ Sun Jun 19, 2011 9:58 pm ] |
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Cash only here. Or failing that, postal orders. |
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| Author: | Amnesia10 [ Sun Jun 19, 2011 11:30 pm ] | |||||||||
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I have the same concerns. There will have to be fees to cover the running costs but if they are excessive then it could be ineffective. I suspect that they might charge the merchants though. It might be quite hefty considering the small size of each transaction. I would not be happy if they were for larger transactions. |
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| Author: | koli [ Mon Jun 20, 2011 7:02 am ] | |||||||||
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You mean they have sent anybody to your house to explain it to you?  That's strange... 
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| Author: | belchingmatt [ Mon Jun 20, 2011 7:07 am ] | |||||||||
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My bank card has a wave and pay and I'll never use it. It also interferes with my Oyster card. 
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| Author: | Linux_User [ Mon Jun 20, 2011 8:32 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Big four networks team up for mobile payments |
I quite like the idea, it will be very useful for low-value transactions where I don't have the change - hopefully all this NFC business will put an end to the "exact change only" problem at vending machines. As for the thread title, given the T-Mobile/Orange merger, shouldn't it read "The big three networks"? |
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| Author: | Amnesia10 [ Mon Jun 20, 2011 11:22 am ] | |||||||||
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I also like the idea but I do have my concerns. It also requires upgrading your phone. My current phone does not have NFC capability, and I might have to wait more than a year for the iPhone to have such facilities. |
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| Author: | pcernie [ Mon Jun 20, 2011 7:53 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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I genuinely don't buy anything that small any more 
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| Author: | Amnesia10 [ Mon Jun 20, 2011 8:14 pm ] | |||||||||
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Don't tell me that you are like the Queen? You no longer carry cash any longer.
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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Mon Jun 20, 2011 9:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Big four networks team up for mobile payments |
Most of the coffee shop & etc places near me have signs up saying they won't accept credit cards on transactions less than £3.50. That implies, to me at least, that at some point people have tried to pay for something less than £3.50 with a credit card.... Jon |
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