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About LinkBacksYou know how the Blue cards and a few others have those chips built in for the ExpressPay service where you just hold the card up instead of swipe it. How many of you actually use it?
I think it's a cool feature and all but I never think to use it. The main thing is only a few places take it like CVS and 7-Eleven. Swiping a card is so simply anyway I don't really feel any need to wave a card even if they took it everywhere.
Cool feature, have two cards with it, but never bother using it.
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don't have an american express but i know mastercard has a thing on their cards like that called pay pass but have never used it so i don't know how well it works. seems dangerous to me bec couldn't someone install a secret receiver by a cash register that would read people's cards when they are nearby? sounds possible to me!
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I think you have to hold the card pretty close to the reader. I don't even think it will work if your card is a few inches away so it should be safe but I could be wrong.
A lot of cards have that Mastercard Paypass on them. What I would rather see is something built into cell phones. But then again being how often I break my phone that may not be the best idea.
Disclosure: I am a moderator/paid staff of this site, which does have advertising relationships with some credit cards that are discussed. Regardless, anything I say is my honest opinion.
Current Cards: American Express: Blue Cash, Simply Cash Bank of America: WorldPoints Platinum Plus Chase: Amazon, British Airways, Cash Plus Rewards, Freedom, Ink Cash Citi: Thank You Premier, Dividend Platinum Select Discover: More
Primary Everyday Card: American Express Blue Cash
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I like the Express Pay on my blue card
They have it at a lot of places and that way I don't have to touch that dirty pen stylus to sign for the credit cards that thousands of other people have touched.
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i use payexpress with my amex blue cash quite a bit (ie: starbucks, duane reade, 7-11, etc.) as it just makes the mobility easier. i tap, i go....i tap, go as versus swiping, signing, and possibly showing ID and then going. I don't use the Mcard RFID quick pay option.
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