Places are changing this especially now that tap to pay and Apple Pay/Google Pay/etc are getting more popular.
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breadsmasher@lemmy.world 1 day agoWhen I visited USA last year, I was dumbfounded that I had to give my card to whoever and they wandered off to charge it. Rather than UK where they bring a card machine to you
NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 21 hours ago
wildcardology@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Luckily credit card skimmers are not yet prevalent in my country.
SenatorCollins@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Yeah, that’s not very typical. I’d like to make that point.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
In the US? Yes it is.
My expectation at a restaurant is that they’ll take my card and bring it back with a slip to sign. Some places have payment stations at the table, but that’s not very common.
swordgeek@lemmy.ca 22 hours ago
I was in the US (probably for the last time ever) in December and was amazed that they still do this.
Here in Canada, that was done away with…maybe 20 years ago? Trips to the UK, France, Australia, New Zealand, and the Netherlands have been similar.
Signing a CC receipt is something most people’s parents did. Except in the US.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I wonder if our tip culture has something to do with it.
Gotta be able to add that 20% for the server.
LilB0kChoy@midwest.social 15 hours ago
Really depends on the restaurant.
The smaller or local places where we are have all mostly switched to the handheld mobile devices.
The fast food places are all still front register POS style.
The larger chains or fancier restaurants are mostly still take your card away and run it then return for a signature.
I imagine the holdouts either don’t want to make the technological and cost investment to update (big chains) or they feel the mobile device is too “low class” (fancier restaurants).
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I still remember going to the US and seeing these carbon copy credit card machines. Also what blows my mind is the US still does not have e-transfer.
They work like this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug4zEJglde0
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
How is e-transfer different from zelle or venmo?
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
CHA-CHUNK!
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 day ago
?Its very typical at sit-down restaurants, they bring you the check, you write the amount you want to pay (tip), sign, and leave your card on the tray, they bring back your card and a copy of the check.
skrlet13@feddit.cl 1 day ago
And the PIN? You don’t use it in USA?
ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
The cards were definitely being called chip and PIN as they were being introduced.
I don’t recall the PIN ever being used outside of debit cards (which already used PINs in certain contexts).
Occasionally gas pumps will ask for the postal code of the billing address, but that’s about as close as we get.
13igTyme@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Credit cards don’t have pin numbers. And a debit card can be charged as a credit.
Khanzarate@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No you don’t give them your pin. They don’t need it. They get your signature afterwards, though.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No cardboard. No cardboard derivatives…
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I would 100% follow them to see what they’re doing with my card.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They are putting it in the only credit card machine that they have.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
Soo… they don’t have these wireless card reader things? Is that because of American capitalism again? Where I live, even random market vendors have them.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Some do, but many haven’t bothered upgrading the system they installed 30 years ago.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Restaurants do this. That’s pretty normal in the US. For other point of sale machines, like cash registers at a store, you should just be able to tap the card on a machine located next to the register.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
But apparently restaurants don’t have a normal point of sale machine at the entrance? Why tuck it away at the back?
coriza@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Then you will “love” to know that they can still charge the card after they have swiped it. I was floored when I noticed it. So you give the card and then they come back with your card and a new bill that has a place for you to write down how much tip you wanna add. You do not give your card again, you just leave the paper in the table and they will add the amount to what they are gonna charge your in your cc. This would not fly in my country, I am actually shocked that cc fraud is not more widespread in the US with how “low security” it all seems. Once I when to buy something and I head forgotten my cc PIN (because now always using contactless pay and such", the person handling the register told me I can skip it, and sure enough, there was an option on the machine to skip entering the PIN. I guess the PIN stuff is new in the US and people are not used to IT so it is not even a red flag to say that you do not know your own PIN and they even have the case built-in in the software. Shocking.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
Oh wow. Just wow.
A system like that is just begging to be exploited to the point that it begins to smell like a honeypot operation.
breadsmasher@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Gonna jump over the bar? Easy way to get kicked out
bladerunnerspider@lemmy.world 1 day ago
After you had your meal? Sounds like a win
Donjamos@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’d just not hand them my card
Univ3rse@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
I don’t believe you’d enjoy an interaction with our police…
Donjamos@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m fairly certain that you are allowed to decline letting someone take your card and take it out of your sight. All the card company’s are propably even having something in their contracts that forbids you from doing exactly that.