Hawaiian717

Gold card isn't available wih contactless in the US. This page has the list of cards that offer it: http://www.americanexpress.com/us/co...ntactless.html

AllieKat

No Amex Gold card has contactless.

reclusive46

I find it bizarre. In the UK, the Platinum and the Gold were the only cards with contactless for ages.

jamar

Back to TriMet, if anyone's wondering, some MasterCards don't play nice either. Tapping my Barclaycard Ring to try and buy a TriMet ticket went nowhere. Barclaycard customer service said they saw the requests but the CVV was wrong, or some such (no idea how much the front-line customer service people actually know about that kind of thing).

AllieKat

Amex US seems to be focussed on offering contactless on their lower-end cards, the only charge card with contactless is Zync.

scibot

Well it seems Jersey Mike's Subs also supports Contactless where they have Ingenico ISC250 terminals, as the first nfc indicator does light up and it works. But I went to a different Big Lots and the nfc was finally turned off. Also I saw one MX915 at Wal-Mart https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...327152009a.jpg

wco81

I went to one this afternoon.

On my iPhone, it showed done but on their terminal, it wouldn't work.

I tried the EMV slot too and that didn't work. Finally I had to swipe it.

AllieKat

The overall trend at merchants is toward supporting contactless, and I think that there will be little further pushback. I'm somewhat shocked Big Lots disabled it, but it is what it is. I've heard rumours ULTA might re-enable theirs at some point.

Jersey Mike's is "coming soon" for Apple Pay, so expect it to work there sooner than later if it still doesn't. Marriott got added to the list, etc.

Now, is contactless ever going to take off in the US like it has in other countries? I doubt it. But I do expect the trend to be toward more and more contactless support over time. Likewise, EMV in the US. There are a LOT of merchants with brand new hardware and expect a flood of EMV enablements between June and September (right after I am probably leaving the US, ironically enough).

scibot

Jersey Mike's correct and was it a Mastercard? I know Google Wallet works there now, but I'm sure it has the same issue as Home Depot had before they turned off Paypass completely, Apple Pay Mastercard does not work, but Google Wallet Mastercard does work. Visa and Amex Apple Pay should also work there with no issues.

AllieKat

Home Depot turned off PayPass? Really? I used contactless there just two weeks ago no problem. Granted, it was Amex, not PayPass.

tmiw

Card use in general at Jersey Mike's is a hassle. They make you answer a few prompts on the terminal (whether to tip/how much and I think one other one) before you can swipe/tap. I remember contactless being disabled last time I was there but maybe it's time to try again.

Knowing the US banking industry they'll push Apple Pay as hard as possible for a few years, realize that no one wants to use their phones to pay and then give up, claiming that Americans don't want contactless altogether (heck, there's already articles claiming that "only 6% of iPhone owners use Apple Pay" six months after its introduction). Never mind that contactless on cards actually might have a chance since it's easier than using a phone.

I was there about a week ago. I didn't use contactless though because the US Airways card is my current primary card while the 50% bonus is going on and MasterCard contactless has known issues there, but it did prompt to swipe or tap.

uklevi

Diners Club MC PayPass, even though it is only MSD contactless, worked at a Morrison's self-checkout here in the UK. Obviously it won't work in TfL, but it seems to me like most terminals here in the UK support MSD contactless as well. When the receipt prints, it shows entry as "swiped", but I believe this is to be expected. Really wish that when BMO re-relaunches the Diners Club (yes it will happen at some point I'm 99.9999% sure) that they switch to EMV contactless, but if you look at BMO's Canadian cards, it doesn't look like those are EMV contactless.

AllieKat

Mastercard does not require dual-interface cards to support PayPass M/CHIP, calling it only "best practice". TfL's site had me believing no American, Canadian or Dutch Mastercard supported PayPass M/PASS. However, people say the HSBC card works so I'm really glad I applied.

No "swiped" isn't really to be expected. It happens, commonly, but shouldn't - entry method should be "contactless".

Lyolik

PayPass M/CHIP doesn't strictly mean the support of ODA by a card.

reclusive46

I've seen that a couple of times when using a US contactless card in the UK in the past.

McDonalds says entry contactless but next to the card number it says - Magnetic Stripe data.