Re: 2013-12-13 Like a school trip
Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 9:19 pm
The UK is also pretty much into contactless payment as well.Spidrift wrote:Oh yeah; PINs have effectively replaced signatures for credit card transactions in the UK. Virtually any retail place that takes credit cards has a wireless keypad or two. The banks reckon it's more secure (I guess that any idiot can forge most people's scrawled signatures these days), although some people get twitchy about the electronic security of the system. I think it's still possible to use a signature instead, with a bit of messing about; that Malaysian visitor to the UK would probably get a funny look before the shop worked out how to handle the problem. But it would make them a weird out-of-date foreigner.
From what I've seen, France and Spain are much the same. The only time I usually get to sign a credit card slip nowadays is on trips to Germany.