Recap: State of Manufactured Spending, Saks Glitches, Walmart-Amazon Price Wars & More

 

 

  • Here’s how to use mobile payments when the cashier insists it won’t work:

 

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artgriego
artgriego (@guest_406754)
May 15, 2017 23:07

DoC, is the FT post you mentioned in response to a cashier insisting it won’t work? It sounds like this was their strategy at a gas station pump – must have a mechanical switch that you have to trigger with a dummy card for the magnetic sensor to pick up the Samsung pay transmitter.

JASON
JASON (@guest_406727)
May 15, 2017 21:40

Found out last week that Vanilla Master debit card issued by Bancorp bank is no longer able to load on bluebird or serve account.

Lantean
Lantean (@guest_406733)
May 15, 2017 21:58

you still have BB out serve???
wow… how do you keep under the radar?

MarcoPolo
MarcoPolo (@guest_406646)
May 15, 2017 17:19

Never knew about buying My Cash cards at CVS with a credit card and loading funds to PayPal account.
Oh well…….MS gravy train is getting slower and slower now.

V
V (@guest_406992)
May 16, 2017 14:46

@MarcoPolo,
Don’t worry, you didn’t lose much, your ignorance of this feature probably kept you safe from a very likely Paypal shutdown. They were shutting down random accounts for MyCash loading and among my family members, two more accounts got shut down because of that.

TG
TG (@guest_406637)
May 15, 2017 16:58

Is the Saks part supposed to link to another site? Because it links to your post about it twice.

Abey
Abey (@guest_406629)
May 15, 2017 16:43

So as the sust have settled. There are no new credit card specials recently or links with special sign up bonus languages. I have run out of credit cards to swipe to reach minimum spend.
So today i went over my 73 credit card album thinking which cards to pick out for daily spend.
After 30min of back and forth, I picked out the Spark 2% cash back and the SPG.
All the rest are somewhat worthless and overrated cards for daily spend. 😜

Abey
Abey (@guest_406630)
May 15, 2017 16:44

dust*

Charles
Charles (@guest_406604)
May 15, 2017 15:45

What is DL? (In the samsung watch gas station comment)

Brian
Brian (@guest_406608)
May 15, 2017 15:47

Driver’s licence?

Joe
Joe (@guest_406612)
May 15, 2017 15:54

it looks like /u/yugi used their driver’s license to fake putting a card in the slot. anything that the reader wouldn’t read would probably work (maybe even put a credit or debit card in backward?)