[Magdalen] Disappearing money - please pray

[Marion Thompson]

Any credit card is paid off in the month, but why ever not use a debit 
card?  So much handier than having to shell out cash for gas or 
groceries or whatever.  Oh, right, I forgot, I have a Sixty Plus 
account.  :-))

Marion, a pilgrim

On 9/1/2015 11:16 PM, AT&T wrote:
> 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
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> 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