John Hagan wrote: They charge just shy of three percent per transaction, which seems pretty high but there's no other fees involved.
John Hagan wrote: Im guessing some of the older set may not be to keen having their card swiped into a phone. Any and all thoughts appreciated.
Steve P wrote:I will go out of my way to never-ever "pay by phone" again. My trust level of this technology is "zero".
John Hagan wrote:I would hope that after the use of these phone card swipers becomes more wide spread folks will see its really no different that any register/card reader in town that uses a wireless router to connect.
Robin Garr wrote:John Hagan wrote:I would hope that after the use of these phone card swipers becomes more wide spread folks will see its really no different that any register/card reader in town that uses a wireless router to connect.
I think it's already getting there, John. The paranoid elderly can always pay cash ... and, of course, assume that no one has installed a password sniffer on their local ATM.
John Hagan wrote:While researching this I read an article about restaurants that were moving over to hand held card readers. This was due to customers being increasingly concerned with servers disappearing into the back room with card in hand and the ability to easily write down the three digit verification codes on the back of the cards. Also read a couple of interesting articles about the rise in "skimming"at gas station self serve pumps.
There was a great Dilbert strip on this point. The crew was out at lunch, and Dilbert was banging on about computer security. Then he handed the server his credit card, and she came back wearing a fur coat with a price tag hanging off the sleeve.
Gayle DeM wrote:Just in case you want to see it: http://search.dilbert.com/comic/Fur%20Coat
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