Membership Cards

Nellie

To be fair I am not quite sure what the correct date is. Looking at the App there is a difference between the date I joined and the renewal date of about two weeks but in my favour. I did join in 1981 so I don't know if some system change along the way has caused this?

David

I am quite happy with the digital cards...being called a tech geek for more years than I can remember I am very happy with all things digital and certainly looking forward to AI...as is my wife who uses her iPhone for virtually everything and who commented recently to her sister 'How Quaint' when she pulled out a cheque book.

However, if the club is saying that going digital is for 'saving the environment' then they should apply that logic to all paper based products ...The magazine would be an excellent starting point as it is already available online...also the hand book/map together with the overseas brochure....all available on line. (ok there may be the odd member who doesn't do/want to tech stuff)....and, like our sister club offer a 'Digital membership'

All very nice IF you carry a smart phone around with you everywhere ?  I prefer not to,  and I carry cash . I find that gives me more choice and I am not forever verifying everything with texts to prove I am who I say I am. 

I am not a Luddite I wouldn't smash my smart phone  I use it as a tool  But neither am I slave to it.

I use it for MY benefit not just to save Companies to whom I do business money.

Ray

I use it for MY benefit not just to save Companies to whom I do business money.

I think most of us use it to our benefit rather than anyone else’s and they do a lot more than operate as a payment system.

I prefer not to carry much in the way of cash, although I do carry some. The phone, watch or contactless card suffice in 99% of places. Although the shop where I get the granddaughters gingerbread man 😂 is still cash only. I don’t know why you are forever verifying everything. For me that only generally happens with online purchases and occasional large unusual ones. I like that, it’s easy enough to verify in the App and it keeps my money secure.

I generally carry a £10 or £20 note tucked away somewhere for ‘just in case’ reasons but I gave up carrying coins long ago. I remember the weight and the way they wore through pockets. Plastic or the phone wallet win for me every time on the grounds of convenience. 👍

Likewise I use the digital cards for my convenience. One phone and I have money, maps and routing, the internet, and (most important for me) a camera always with me - I don't need anything else.  

There used to be a time it was a wallet, phone and camera and I used to run out of pockets! 

Ray

I don't think I am a slave to my smart phone but it is a very handy tool and even handier if you have it with you most of the time. The alternative view of it being to a companies advantage to use your smart phone is that it is also convenient for the owner of the smart phone. Like my example above do I wish to get to the cash desk and hunt around in my wallet for some loyalty card or do I use my phone. We shop every week in Waitrose and every week they send us money off vouchers. I could print these off and present them at the till when paying or I could take a screen shot and use my phone at the till instead. So I think the convenience between who has the advantage is a bit blurred. It sort of reminds me of the uproar when companies started offering better deals if you paid by direct debit rather than the then usual monthly or quarterly bill by post. At the end of the day we all have to decide what is most convenient to ourselves but that only lasts as long as we have a choice?

David

This post reminded me I had done nothing about getting my physical card. I thought I was the last dinosaur in Britain not to own a smart phone. When I followed the link in the email to order one I found the CAMC computer couldn't cope. I had to ring to order one. Apparently there are many dinosaurs in the CAMC. I am not alone! Keep chopping down the trees a little longer please.

Texts are way gone. I use fingerprint or iris recognition. Watch wallet is even better-a twist of the wrist👍🏻. It isn’t for everyone for sure but life is so much simpler.

SteveL says....

"I don’t know why you are forever verifying everything. For me that only generally happens with online purchases and occasional large unusual ones. I like that, it’s easy enough to verify in the App and it keeps my money secure."

some banks certainly do require verification for some online purchases.

I don't get this very often but did recently as we had several large transactions in a month. The choice seems to be text message, call to fixed land line or verification via a specific app using Touch ID on my iPad...(the phone has Face ID).

I had to do a purchase for my dad and he never shops online, although the purchase was only £30 odd, the transaction needed verification. Again, text, landline or app....but was also offered option via card reader.

OH doesn't have a smart phone and had a lot of issues with online transactions and now has a card reader for verification. This is never used as 'I just use my card'....which hardly ever requires verification.

In my experience, despite having touch and face recognition on my devices, certainly (the option for) texts are not yet 'way gone'.

Some (many?) folk still use phones which don't have Touch and Face ID features and will be 'verified' by text or code over a landline.