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Also, I guess a thief doesn't actually have to steal your card. He just needs to carry a card reader to take £30 at a time by brushing against peoples' pockets, handbags, etc.
That said, I rarely carry cash. Only if I go out on the beers.
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I don't use contactless for that very reason.
He stood at a self-service checkout, requesting my help. He had one £34 bottle of champagne. I went over and he said "I found this contactless card and it doesn't work". I explained that if it was someone else's card, it was illegal for him to be using it to buy champagne, and he eventually said "Right whatever, I'll hand it in, I'll hand it in", and tried to leave - he left the bottle of champagne he was holding, but another woman who was queueing up said "Look in his bag, I think he has something in there" - sure enough, the alarm went off when he got to the door.
By this point, more of my colleagues were on the case and about three or four managed to surround him and get him to surrender his bag. We discovered that, indeed, the bag contained a very large £55 bottle of champagne.
I suppose if you go through your life never paying for anything from shops, you wouldn't know the contactless payment limit is £30.
I don't use contactless with my card really, its all Apple Pay but it shows up instantly, I even get a text 2 seconds after I tabbed it.
As a working muso I'm paid in cash about 80% of the time, only the big corporate stuff is BACS. I can see a day when cash is phased out though
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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I used to use fancy pieces of paper to buy things, when I lost one of them, someone else just used it, and I wasn't able to cancel it, and when I was mugged, they took all my fancy pieces of paper.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/contactless-card-theft-users-warned-to-watch-out-for-digital-pickpockets-a6879796.html