Originally Posted by JEFFJAGUAR

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.