I personally don’t care what you think, again, if putting your cc in for30 is tedious, you’re lazy 🤷🏻♂️
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Walmart Still Doesn't Accept Apple Pay in U.S. Despite Many Customer Requests
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That or my time has value. Thirty seconds is a very long time. I would call just standing in one spot drooling on one's self lazy. Learn to think fast. Learn to take advantage of every second. While I am typing this, I am on a phone call and I am waiting for a run to finish so I can take a look at the data. Somewhere in the back of my brain, I am planning the next run of the simulation.
30 seconds is a long time now, wow 😂😂😂 These conversations are getting tedious 🙄
For sure. But at the same time, RCS is still half baked and far from a solid replacement to SMS - to the point even Google hasn't adopted it across the board (and it's THEIR standard). On the other hand, NFC payments are very well established as the mobile-payment standard.
I left a restaurant after they said you had to use your phone and a QR code to view their menu. I don't have time for that nonsense.
Well, I strategize a little better than that.
First of all, all of my recurring payments are on a particular card that I never use for anything else, and that card stays in my safe at home. So any "theft" of my cards that I actually carry around have no chance of affecting my recurring payments. Why anyone would NOT do this is totally beyond my comprehension.
Second of all, when I am overseas, or in a trip domestically, I travel with more than one card. The odd of 2 or 3 of my cards "getting skimmed" is very low. So if I had to cancel one and use the others, it wouldn't be an issue.
Ironically, the story I related above about about my card getting scammed...fairly certain that it happened when I was in Mexico. I discovered it (and dealt with it) when I was in Canada the next month. So, yeah, I get around more than the typical American.
Seriously. I can't believe people argue that taking out your wallet, getting out your credit card, using the card, putting the card back in the wallet, and then putting the wallet away isn't tedious compared to double tapping a button on a watch and holding it near a reader.
Right, so there's plenty of testimony just in this thread of people opting to spend money elsewhere.
Also, it's quite easy to see, that for someone who's not a regular Walmart customer and only using Apple Pay or other NFC solutions would be quite surprised to not being able to pay at Walmart.
Sounds like quite a workout!!
Far greater than, say......taking your phone out. holding it up to a reader, entering your phone's pass code or having it scan your face or fingerprint or whatever...and then putting your phone away....
For me, it's one card for business stuff, one card for personal, one card for "Probably tax deductible", one wallet to bind them and (evil laugh) one card to rule them all!
I've paid with my phone at the subway gate in Moscow and Kazan. Worked pretty well and easily.
For me, its:
1). Apple Card with Apple Pay (except at Costco because they don't accept Mastercard), everywhere possible.
2). Costco Visa card with Apple Pay at Costco.
3). Chase Sapphire Preferred Card (Visa) anywhere I need a physical card. That would include Walmart, Home Depot, Lowe's, and various gas pumps.
4). USAA Visa Rewards card for all recurring payments, subscriptions, bills, etc. Anything on "automatic pay".
5). Various other cards depending on what I am doing - buying airline tickets, traveling or whatever. I maximize my credit card rewards potential to the extent that I can.
As a side note - I can't imagine NOT shopping at Costco because they don't accept Apple Card in their stores. That would just be retarded.
Dude, I'm telling you, some people are just WAY MORE IMPORTANT than backward redneck Americans like me (and possibly you, don't know where you're from and don't want to assume). I mean, THIRTY SECONDS!!! COME ON, MAN!!!
I guess so, I wonder if I should bow down to their greatness.
Nobody here needs to know anything. We don't have to talk. We can sit here quietly with our hands folded, staring at each other - wondering what the others are thinking and WHAT IN THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THEM and ask ourselves "Why can't they understand that I'm right!!"
That’s only a problem in the US. Costco warehouses in Canada and Mexico accept Apple Card just fine, Canada because they have exclusivity with Mastercard and Mexico because the actually take all major cc’s. Thought you might want to know that since you do travel outside the US quite a bit.
Well, that's pretty much what would matter to me given that I live in the U.S., huh?
When I am out of the U.S., I'm not gonna be shopping at Costco. I can do that at home.
Aside from all of THAT, when I travel on an international trip, I put all my charges on a card that I use just for that purpose. I'm not gonna use a card that I use in the U.S., even if they DO accept that card.
I would think people would knife you in the back for holding the line up. If I was the one doing that, I would feel the person knifing me was justified.
The phone seems slow to me when people are lining up behind you. It's not only your own time. It's the time of everyone behind you. My rule of thumb is, if you slow down enough to break your stride, you are being rude to the people behind you.
I don't shop at Costco because, they don't seem to have small portions. They might have changed. It's been a long time since I have been in that store. I guess it's different for people with big families.
I kind of think of them as being the same thing. You swipe your watch, then they take money from your card.