General Chat

My local shop is Somerfield. They have just started the chip n pin service. On the front of the machine it says (in very small print) ....Somerfield get 2% of the final total. So!!!! I refuse to put my number in and make the Q wait for one min while the machine allows me to sign. While we r all waiting, I tell the Q why Im doing this. I may have this wrong but Im going in there tomorrow WITH MY GLASSES. We still have the choice but wont have in the new year.

Oh i never knew that thought it was free. going to check from now on, if thats the case, im also going to sign for it as well, LOL. surely they cant charge, :-)

i think ul find it says 2% of it goes to the shop wen u sign too as long as u r paying by card

Lou....deerrr! I still dont understand :>s

Are you saying that they are charging Extra, for the chip n pin service? or that they get a commision from it? I know that safeway/ morrison absorb the card charge........ Ie. what you spend is what you pay....... Bob

nor me ................ lol but i remebr seeing it on the recipts that r signed

nor do i, LOL. so do we pay the 2% or not PMSL. :-)

Bob....I'll go look tomorrow while WEARING ME GLASSES....

i do lol not sure we can do it any other way wud b interesting to see if it says it on cash recipts

When my husband was in Wilkinsons the other day they told him that by February 2005 the only cards that would be accepted are chip and pin cards. I don't have one :o( Does that mean I can't use my debit card any more? My nearly 88 year old Mum-in-law is terrified - now they've shut her local post office she gets her cash from Sainsburys, using cashback, when she does her shopping. Her pension is paid directly into the bank which is an awkward bus ride from her home. She cannot remember her pin number, and I'm sure there are many more like her, what are they to do? Sorry to have hi-jacked your thread :o) Sue

Who has paid for all the new terminals to be put in the shops etc? The consumer in the end!

The bank gets 2% of every purchase made with a credit card in this country. What you pay stays the same, the thing that bugs me is that the store add on this 2% so they don't lose out but if you don't pay with a credit card you still pay the same price when really it should be 2% less! Steve.

its called progress john like it or not lol

thanx steve i wondered bout that

thanks steven i get it now. cheers glad i dont have to pay then,LOL. but now i should be paying less, PMSL :-)

It dosen't mean that you pay any extra for your bills, you will find that normally on your receipts even if you sign, it will say the same. I work for a supermarket and we have that question asked all the time, and I just tell them to ignore what it says. It will not cost you anything extra. You will also find that from next year you will not be able to sign for your receipts any more. As it will become law that you have to use the pin instead. Nicola

Sue...any change is horendous for the elderly. BUT! Like when the money changed....we HAD to do it all in ONE day....god knows how much I lost that day lol I trusted every shop keeper and stood there with my hand out hoping I looked as if I knew what I was doing lol

Sue, don' t take this the wrong way, But If there is a date or anniversary that the M.I.L CAN remember, she can have that one put onto the card, the bank will do it........ I have three easy ones..........but i get em mixed up!!!!!LOL

OMG! thanks all for your help on this....I'll now have to go to Somerfields wearing a...T.Cosy!!!! pmsl

cosy even (wouldnt let me type it in b4...