That's Not Quite How You Pay With a Phone

[TheWolfEmperor]

While I was at the fitting rooms, I over heard this conversation on the walky.

Cashier: Can we put a customer's credit card number into the register?
Manager: We can hand key it, if that's what you mean. Does the customer have it on them?
Cashier: No, he's got a picture of the credit card on his phone. Can he use that?

At the same time, I swear I was only silently mouthing the words that the manager then said without missing a beat.

Manager: Oh, absolutely not.

I looked around the corner to the register where all this was taking place. I couldn't tell who the culprit was, or if anything will come of it in the form of a police investigation or what have you. But I'll give someone the benefit of the doubt. Maybe they were new to the concept of paying with a mobile credit card app.

Who am I kidding. Someone very likely thought they would be able to pay with the picture of a credit card.

[RealUnimportant]

Certainly, we can accept that. And here's your picture of the item, good day. Oh, you wanted the actual item? Then bring in the actual card!

[EricKei]

...And if you work hard, someday you might own a photograph of a mansion!

[MoonCat]

Reminds me of the customer who once emailed me a photo of her credit card to pay for her ad.

Yes, she emailed an actual photo showing the full card number, name, etc.

[Pixelated]

I'm wondering if these people are just confusing a photo of said card with those apps that actually take the place of the card (if that's the correct way of putting it). First time I saw somebody tilt their smartphone towards the debit/credit machine I was wondering what the *bleep* they were trying to do.

[Slave to the Phone]

A conversation I have every day: I need to verify your income for the last 30 days, do you have your pay stubs?"

"No, but I brought my 2017 W2."

BZZZZ!!! That is not how verifying the last 30 days income for 05/2018 works.

[Deserted]

I can't quite top that, but I did have one passenger a few months back who handed me a piece of paper with some sloppy writing on it.

Me: What's this?
Pax: My payment info.
Me: Where's the card?
Pax: Ohio.

(I got paid by her brother, the cardholder in Ohio, via Paypal. Took about 5 minutes.)

[RealUnimportant]

I should say, while I've not personally had someone try to use a picture of a card (but colleagues have,) I have had people try to hand me their phone so the person on the other end can tell me "their" card details... Yeah, no.

[Buzzard]

I'm remembering the one where a guy got that letter in the mail from the police department. He triggered one of the speed traps, and the machine got his photo nicely, and said photo was included with his ticket.
He returned a picture of the money for the ticket.
The PD send a picture of handcuffs.
He promptly paid up.

[bainsidhe]

Ooooh taking photos of the card now? And I thought I was special when customers handed over a scribbled credit card number on a wadded slip of paper.

[Mental_Mouse]

I'm remembering the one where a guy got that letter in the mail from the police department. He triggered one of the speed traps, and the machine got his photo nicely, and said photo was included with his ticket.
He returned a picture of the money for the ticket.
The PD send a picture of handcuffs.
He promptly paid up.

Cute, but speeding tickets are pretty easy to challenge. ("OK, let's see the maintenance log on that speed trap's radar gun...". And the challenge often wins by default, just because the reason the cops automated the process is because they wanted not to put manpower into their revenue farming.