[Magdalen] Disappearing money - please pray

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I will not use a debit card, and with my credit cards, I pay them off every month. To the banks, I'm a dead beat. 

Jim Handsfield 
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> On Sep 1, 2015, at 11:00 PM, Charles Wohlers <charles.wohlers at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> Recently got my BofA debit card with chip. Not much of anywhere to use it, however.
> 
> Here in the US PINs are always used for debit cards (I've had the same one since ATM machines arrived), never for credit cards.
> 
> 
> Chad Wohlers
> Woodbury, VT USA
> chadwohl at satucket.com
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Roger Stokes
> Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2015 5:22 PM
> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Disappearing money - please pray
> 
>> On 01/09/2015 22:00, Sally Davies wrote:
>> Thanks, beloved friends, for all the prayers and support. I just spoke to
>> Keith and he says that that bank did eventually credit the money to his
>> account, though they certainly took their time...but in time for the rent payment to go through.
> 
> TBTG for that.
> 
>> Earlier on I was watching Sky business news with a story about "contactless
>> cards" which are now becoming very popular. I have no idea what those are
>> but if they render cash unnecessary it will certainly be a big help!!
> 
> They are debit or credit cards which you can hold over a reader and an
> embedded chip makes a connection with the reader to allow the
> transaction from your account to the receiving account.  Certainly in
> the UK there is a limit in the value of the transaction, currently 20
> GBP but shortly to go ip to 30 GBP.
> 
> Higher value transactions need to be validated with the card-holder's
> PIN which we are well-used to for card transactions in this country.  It
> always amazes me that Chip and PIN is not used to the same extent in the
> USA.  It is less open to fraud than signing the credit card slip (how
> many staff even make a cursory comparison of the signature on the slip
> and that on the card?).
> 
> Roger