Originally Posted by
LordHamster
I've tried both Apple and Android Pay fairly recently, and neither worked on the Tube or buses with either my Chase Presidential Plus (Visa) or my Corporate Amex Plat.
Both of those cards worked just fine everywhere else with Apple/Android Pay, but like I said were annoying to use with the Chip/Signature mode. Trying to check out at a convenience store's self checkout was a giant pain if they didn't support contactless. Each time I'd have the ol' flash bing siren "Idiot needs help" light come on... and have to wait a good 5-10 min for them to figure out what to do.
Blame the idiotic merchants for this silliness. They could easily adopt a no cvm procedure for small purchases but for some reason refuse to do so. And when the assistant comes over they enter a code, print a receipt for you to sign and deposit it in the machine. They hardly ever check signatures anyway but one time, I had already put my card away and had to go back into my wallet and just for spite showed a different card than the one I had just used and the fool never knew the difference. But this "problem" has an easy solution but the British merchants refuse to do it.