Not when using contactless on the phone as it takes your phone login as the authentication, like typing your PIN.
Yes, I know I’m old-fashioned, but I like taking my time to pay. 
I have my card for the reader… and a pin number… at my fingertips, not on my phone.
I hope I am NEVER behind you in a queue! 
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I don’t take that long…
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It must be different buying books for a Kindle on Amazon as every time I make an order Amazon it asks me if I want to use the default card and gives the bank’s name and part of the card number. Since Brexit I hardly ever use amazon.co.uk so the answer is always yes. If I need to change to my U.K. card it’s a simple mouse click.
£100 I think in the UK. But Apple Pay transactions can be for more than that if you verify with touch ID or Face ID on your phone.
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No, shopping online for stuff the french M&S site did not sell and Amazon uk too for my wine making stuff. I have never used a bank card when visiting the UK as I only have the CA debit one, don’t need anything else, family never let me buy anything, they always paid for everything I wanted!!
Like me then, can’t abide these smart phones and have no time or use for one to be honest.
But the process is just the same on a smartphone only safer.
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The limit for contactless payments is set by the vendor and it’s possible that your bank might have a weekly limit as well.
One of the first uses of Apple Pay in the USA was to buy an $800K sports car.
You must being behind folks paying for their weekly shop by cheque.
Good suggestion for many. No Apple wallet as no i-Things and Google Wallet charged me 2x for a transaction that never got the double charge refunded so I’ve not been keen on Android either
It is different. However 2 problems do occur
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books use i-click when you take Kindle Daily deal so immediate book by book and it takes default card. That card may accidentally still be a default left from a previous transaction.
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Amazon does in some checkout processes default to unexpected cards and sometimes even shipping/ country addresses it gave you no opportunity to select. Even overriding your earlier selection.
Seems if had done a trial run or a few, then not completed checkout the checkout, to see the impact of adding particular products, on international shipping cost. Amazon can default to completely wrong card on a later checkout run on same basket. And even change ship address/country to a default it gets from somewhere (not the usual default that’s set up and not what you chose before on earlier runs on same basket) suddenly without showing it’s done that and without giving you the chance to amend back to correct card and or shipping/ country address correctly or approve.
As well, after a certain number of dummy runs it can also submit the order unexpectedly when a “Continue” button is clicked on the screen before the last one, and not proceed to next screen which has the step of Submit Order button.
Been there, done that several times and got the T-shirt. Luckily Amazon teams on weekdays know this can happen, is not solved and will cancel the order on chat if you contact them very promptly, either on Chat or if you click to get a callback from them.
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it doesn’t take that long to write a cheque
I do not know why you all do not use Britline. The Britline gold card is an international debit card - good all around the world without any commission charges and exchange rate at the bank rate on day of use…
Be careful I think at least one of my banks will charge for a UK transaction even if paid in Euros.
Behind some old biddy’s you’d think they were writing a chapter of War and Peace!
Really? My experience in France is that it is a standard 50€ throughout France.
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I read that book during a flight to Canada many years ago… but that took many hours 
thankfully no-one takes that long to write a cheque 
many shops complete the cheque automatically so the Customer simply has to take a look and confirm it’s OK..
What is the male equivalent of an old biddy? They are my bug bear as seem to have no clue about efficient shopping - perhaps recently widowed so perhaps I should have sympathy, but I don’t. Don’t understand not to block shelving with their caddy, about unloading onto the belt to make good use of space so still unloading when cashier ready to scan their goods, often don’t have bags so load back into caddy which takes extra time. I could go on.