Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?J=C3=B6rg_Lorenz?= Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Samsung Wallet vs Google Pay Date: Sun, 5 May 2024 11:12:16 +0200 Organization: Camembert Normand au Lait Cru Lines: 53 Message-ID: References: <1o9got62136hu$.dlg@v.nguard.lh> <1r4ud12ymj011.dlg@v.nguard.lh> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 05 May 2024 11:12:18 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f0b81d061696523aa2f8aebec8241d3c"; logging-data="1874002"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19rx5RfuHoSJx5kvyV7NbZBdfrrbqC6La8=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:115.0) Gecko/20100101 Betterbird/115.10.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:kaG9LLdCutc310Sqg/VRLfK25Jk= Content-Language: de-CH, en-GB In-Reply-To: Bytes: 4232 On 05.05.24 10:56, Jim the Geordie wrote: > In article <1r4ud12ymj011.dlg@v.nguard.lh>, V@nguard.LH says... >> >> Jim the Geordie wrote: >> >>> Where in the world are you that waiters don't have hand held card >>> scanners. >>> Do you really allow a waiter to wander out of your site with your >>> debit/credit card? >> >> Haven't eaten out much, have you. The vast majority of restaurants I >> visit bring you a padded wallet with the tab sheet inside. You put your >> card in the wallet. The waiter comes back from there terminal with the >> actual bill inside the wallet (2 copies: 1 for restaurant, 1 for your >> copy). The bill has already been registered at their terminal, but you >> still need to add a tip, and sign the bill. >> >> I'm talking about restaurants where you're sitting at tables, and a >> waiter comes to the table. Not fast food joints where you walk up to >> counter to place an order, and wait until the food shows up in a bag. I >> haven't been to fast food joint in decades. I got sick afterward. Even >> when traveling, I look for a restaurant than visit some drive-up crap >> food joint. Might as well grab a stale sandwich and past-due milk at >> the gas shop when refueling. >> >> Haven't you ever eaten at a non-fast food restaurant, or elsewhere than, >> say, a buffet where you grab the food with a cash register is at the end >> of the line to total up your picks? Some restaurants have waiters that >> have readers to use your phone, but that is definitely not the norm >> here. In fact, it happens so rarely that I'd be surprised the waiter >> had a reader to use with my phone. I get seated, wait to order, order, >> wait for the food, eat the food, the waiter brings over a wallet with >> the summary tab when I'm done eating, I put the card in the wallet, they >> pickup the wallet to ring up the sale at their terminal, and bring back >> the bill for me to add a tip and to sign. >> >> Stop eating crap at the fast food or buffet joints. Start going to real >> restaurants. Then you'll have experience as to which ones have waiters >> with readers, and which have you give them a card. In my region, the >> card is the norm method of payment. In fact, I could wave my phone all >> over in the air, but no one brings a reader to my table. > > You are clearly not eating out in England. > I am surprised that you have not had your card cloned by now. On the Continent the payment process in a restaurant never requires to give away the credit or the debit card. Not even be touched by a service person. Just hold it to the mobil terminal without any direct contact or use the internal (chip) card reader with bigger amounts. -- "Alea iacta est." (Julius Caesar)