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February 25th 12, 02:51 AM
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cards, was E-ZPass, was CharlieCards v.v. Oyster (and Octopus?)
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:20:08 +0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
wrote: Stephen Sprunk wrote: On 24-Feb-12 09:01, d wrote: On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 07:13:13 -0700 Robert Neville wrote: wrote: He must be one of those bloody annoying people who insist on paying for a 2.50 sandwich with a credit card and causing a huge queue of ****ed off hungry customers behind him. That may have been true 10 years ago. Current terminals handle credit card transactions far faster than cash and in most cases, don't even require a signature if the value is under a certain threshold. Hand cash over - walk out. If you can do that faster with a credit card then I'd be interesting in hearing your technique. In the US (and Canada, IIRC), sales tax is not included in the posted price, so a customer doesn't know how much cash to hand over until the total is computed by the cash register. Then, either the customer has to count out the correct payment or the cashier has to count out the correct change for a large bill. Swiping a card is faster--much faster if the transaction total is under the merchant's "floor", i.e. doesn't require a signature/PIN. What credit card transaction requires a PIN? Those are strictly for debit card transactions. In Canada my new Visa requires a PIN if used in certain readers. I suspect if I enabled a PIN my American Express Card would also. Clark Morris |
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February 25th 12, 03:10 AM
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cards, was E-ZPass, was CharlieCards v.v. Oyster (and Octopus?)
Clark F Morris wrote:
"Adam H. Kerman" wrote: Stephen Sprunk wrote: On 24-Feb-12 09:01, d wrote: On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 07:13:13 -0700 Robert Neville wrote: wrote: He must be one of those bloody annoying people who insist on paying for a 2.50 sandwich with a credit card and causing a huge queue of ****ed off hungry customers behind him. That may have been true 10 years ago. Current terminals handle credit card transactions far faster than cash and in most cases, don't even require a signature if the value is under a certain threshold. Hand cash over - walk out. If you can do that faster with a credit card then I'd be interesting in hearing your technique. In the US (and Canada, IIRC), sales tax is not included in the posted price, so a customer doesn't know how much cash to hand over until the total is computed by the cash register. Then, either the customer has to count out the correct payment or the cashier has to count out the correct change for a large bill. Swiping a card is faster--much faster if the transaction total is under the merchant's "floor", i.e. doesn't require a signature/PIN. What credit card transaction requires a PIN? Those are strictly for debit card transactions. In Canada my new Visa requires a PIN if used in certain readers. I suspect if I enabled a PIN my American Express Card would also. Interesting. Thanks. |
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