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#532Earlier quoted context omitted.
Every rewards card I have is a scanned barcode, not a mag swipe.
Same here. Speaking of which, surely someone has written a phone app that will scan and display all your barcoded cards on demand?
Just enter your phone number. I don't carry rewards cards
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#533It's a neat concept, but I just don't think this gets anywhere. Dead in the water - as much as I would personally like to see them succeed. The biggest problems here are security. () Merchants will hate it since there is no physical imprint / swipe of the bank-issued card. This will lead to chargebacks in favor of the customer. So this alone kills this company/product. () Banks might change their terms forbidding cus…
No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
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#535Earlier quoted context omitted.
I love the idea behind Coin but what I need is a fat wallet. I carry 19 cards, of which 16 are essential. Some of them are not for swiping so they wouldn't benefit from Coin. The solution for me is a wallet that can hold 20 to 30 cards, but as far as I can tell there's no such thing.
I use this wallet: http://www.vat19.com/dvds/the-mighty-wallet.cfm It's paper thin, but strong enough that it hasn't fallen apart after years of use. It only has 6 pockets though, so it's not going to separate all of your cards.
Hmm. No offense, but that looks like somthing my 12 year-old son would use. I can't be seen with that! :)
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#536America is so behind with payment systems. The rest of the world has chip cards and now touch-less payments. I am astounded to see that the US is still using magnetic strip cards.
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#537Earlier quoted context omitted.
I love the idea behind Coin but what I need is a fat wallet. I carry 19 cards, of which 16 are essential. Some of them are not for swiping so they wouldn't benefit from Coin. The solution for me is a wallet that can hold 20 to 30 cards, but as far as I can tell there's no such thing.
Get a little plastic wallet designed for holding business cards? Use it for credit cards?
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#538Earlier quoted context omitted.
Swiping a card passes along the name on the card.
But a waiter doesn't ask for ID when taking your card... so even if the Coin identifies you as John Smith when you pay your check, the fact that you are Steve Jackson who presented the card doesn't mean anything. And you can have multiple cards with multiple names in your Coin.
Please look at the context of my comment.
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#539Seems cool to me, obviously a few flaws but not so much that I'm not thinking about getting one.
Question: what kind of BLE technology goes in a card that thin? Looking into some applications of BLE myself and I haven't seen anything like that. I'd love to know what's in the card and how I could build a similarly small bluetooth device.
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#540Why would you want to carry just one credit card when you can carry zero with Square (or Google Wallet)? If it is because of the "tradition problem", it's not much better than Square Wallet either: In more than one place I've been to the cashier was supposed to manually enter the last four digits of CC# manually for the transaction to get through. You'll have to carry a backup card with either Square or Coin. I like…
>(BTW, wasn't Google doing the same thing with a physical card for Google Wallet and ended up abandoning it?)
They abandoned it.