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Old Oct 15, 2018, 9:04 am
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Kagehitokiri
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Originally Posted by mia
Using a contactless card is not a precision skill.
americanexpress.com/us/credit-cards/features-benefits/contactless/index.html
did not work at 2 of the places they list

like i said, ~5 years ago it worked every time with no problem. actually for the entire ~5 years i had starwood amex with expresspay

with current / newish metal contactless, it has only worked once. perhaps its a bad card/thing but bad in such a way that it occasionally does work.

there was discussion upthread about it, so i posted here

im guessing one difference is old MSD vs new EMV

some mentioned (old system?) not working

Originally Posted by patrick.barnes
FWIW, the contactless chip on my SPG Luxury card is inoperative. The new rose gold PRG contactless works. So I'd test it somehow first (I used an Android phone I had lying around with the NFC Tag app).

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