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Yes. It works!
If you don’t live in those countries then apparently switching your region is enough to get it working.
Btw reports on Twitter now from other users...
https://twitter.com/eugenijusr/status/1092787271508598786
Be warned, Apple will probably shut this loophole soon.
https://twitter.com/eugenijusr/status/1092787271508598786
Be warned, Apple will probably shut this loophole soon.
i am just afraid that this will be over with a new cards.. but who cares, lets try it. its just 5 euros for a new card.
my country is on the list of the supported EU countries for Monese but since we are not in eurozone there is additional 2% of currency exchange fee... lovely.
my country is on the list of the supported EU countries for Monese but since we are not in eurozone there is additional 2% of currency exchange fee... lovely.
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I dont see any advantage in this card?
Its again a UK based card, which means Brexit relevant. And Curve already handles very weird at the moment with nearly no support working. And they seem to have a cash flow problem as they stopped the rewards and the usage of the rewards. Support is really crazy, i asked them to set my black curve to legacy contract as I will not pay nearly 10€ for the curve credit card and it is an opt out and they just sent me back a stupid response with additional info how to test the black card with the new functions or the metal card. Happened to all my friends too, that wanted to opt-out of the paid model. I short before canceling all my curve cards and at least short before they try to bill the card, I will remove all billable credit cards from the curve.
Its again a UK based card, which means Brexit relevant. And Curve already handles very weird at the moment with nearly no support working. And they seem to have a cash flow problem as they stopped the rewards and the usage of the rewards. Support is really crazy, i asked them to set my black curve to legacy contract as I will not pay nearly 10€ for the curve credit card and it is an opt out and they just sent me back a stupid response with additional info how to test the black card with the new functions or the metal card. Happened to all my friends too, that wanted to opt-out of the paid model. I short before canceling all my curve cards and at least short before they try to bill the card, I will remove all billable credit cards from the curve.
Curve is going to die very soon in my opinion. I also canceled my card and they just replied, asking me why and they are sure they can help me if I have problems with the card. after I wrote them, that I am canceling because of the new pricing, I never heard back and they didn't cancel the card.
I think the announcement of bringing back Amex support and then Amex kicking them out again after just a few days will make many people want to cancel the card again.
I think those AP Partnership are ridiculous. For example I just was at Backwerk: "Erst ab 3 Euro!". And at Hem station it didnt work either. Its rather deceiving for the customers, especially for those with AMEX (I have Mastercard). I mean what are the conditions on how to become an AP Partner? They are cleary not well handled or negotiated.
I wouldn't pay much attention to the "partners" listed on that site. I think it's just to give a general overview to those who know nothing about it that you can pay on- and offline at many merchants.
What I find puzzling is how Apple can be so lacklustre on updating the country pages with the supported banks and the support document (see here: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT206637): They went to the trouble of creating A-Z lists for the US, adding Banco Mediolanum in Spain, squeezing in N26 in the UK without sticking to sorting by A-Z and HSBC in France, then left out a big bank like BNP Paribas (France), Hello! bank (France) or the big Monese launch. Very odd overall...
And it also goes to show that banks might launch at any time, even those that aren't listed - such as Monese yesterday. Revolut should hopefully go live soon.
What also might be interesting is the fact that 1822direct (belongs to Frankfurter Sparkasse) announced the upcoming support of Google Pay on Twitter today (and see here: https://pay.google.com/intl/de_de/about/banks/). Hopefully Apple Pay is on the cards. With DKB, BW Bank (rumoured Apple Pay launch in Spring) and 1822direct we would have three banks belonging to the Sparkasse group. Great!
What I find puzzling is how Apple can be so lacklustre on updating the country pages with the supported banks and the support document (see here: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT206637): They went to the trouble of creating A-Z lists for the US, adding Banco Mediolanum in Spain, squeezing in N26 in the UK without sticking to sorting by A-Z and HSBC in France, then left out a big bank like BNP Paribas (France), Hello! bank (France) or the big Monese launch. Very odd overall...
And it also goes to show that banks might launch at any time, even those that aren't listed - such as Monese yesterday. Revolut should hopefully go live soon.
What also might be interesting is the fact that 1822direct (belongs to Frankfurter Sparkasse) announced the upcoming support of Google Pay on Twitter today (and see here: https://pay.google.com/intl/de_de/about/banks/). Hopefully Apple Pay is on the cards. With DKB, BW Bank (rumoured Apple Pay launch in Spring) and 1822direct we would have three banks belonging to the Sparkasse group. Great!
How did you make different passes from Pass2U appear as separate ones in Wallet? Mine are all grouped together ...
How did you make different passes from Pass2U appear as separate ones in Wallet? Mine are all grouped together ...
I created it from different types of cards, but it is only working in a limited way like this
https://www.engadget.com/2018/07/24/ebay-apple-pay/
Lets see how long it will take for a bigger rollout.
Those who accept Apple Pay are able to add the badge in Maps. So, now we seem to know all the ways it works. By Apple when they get the info from us or...
https://www.apple.com/de/apple-pay/ Scroll down to "Apple Pay Infos zum Karteneintrag hinzufügen".
https://www.apple.com/de/apple-pay/ Scroll down to "Apple Pay Infos zum Karteneintrag hinzufügen".
Ok, time to get a Aldi Gift Card for 100€ tomorrow
Aldi Gift cards in Germany can be added to ApplePay?
No. To get the Cashback from Boon, I just buy a gift card from Aldi to use it by myself. That will give me the 5€.
Nothing really new, they only used another implementation through this separate NFC reader.
In every Mcdonalds I walked as far as I remember were already self order terminals with NFC. But the NFC reader usually was in the display of the card terminal.
I used Boon/Apple Pay there several times in the last years.