[access-uk] Re: Questions about chip and pin
- From: "Adrien Collins" <adriencollins22160@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:07:50 +0200
Hi Vince
Ok thanks for all, I wondered how I handle the card, I'll
suss it out eventually. It appears I will have different
people with me the first week. I intend to have a good trip.
Regards
Adrien
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vince Thacker
Sent: 12 July 2012 02:46
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Questions about chip and pin
Adrian, I'm sure most shops and banks will make sure you can
get to the chip-and-pin pad. They aren't fixed, and can be
taken off the stand - they're on a sort of telephone cable,
and could be handed to you. I often need to get shop staff
to tell me where the card slot is, and tell me which way
round or which way up to put the card. This must be all
routine to them, and I don't worry much about it. Have a
good holiday, which I'm sure you will.
Vince.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrien Collins" <adriencollins22160@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 9:03 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Questions about chip and pin
>H Eleanor
>
> Sorry to confuse you but I live in
> France. I am relaxed but for me this is a complete new
> experience as I have never had a proper independent
holiday
> on my own, I have always had respite which is different as
I
> have had carers with me 24/7 but I am going to a hotel and
I
> have never been before so I am completely new to this. I
> will have to kind of fend for myself but for the extra
hours
> I am paying for people to take me out. I am in the hotel
on
> my own, although it is a hotel for the blind run by vision
> hotels, there is a limit as to how much they can do for
me.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Adrien
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eleanor
Burke
> Sent: 11 July 2012 21:32
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Questions about chip and pin
>
> Now Adrien you are confusing me *smile*. You are saying
> that it is not all that easy where you live re you getting
> to the machine but then you say you are coming to the UK
for
> the 2 weeks. I am fairly certain now that most shops in
the
> UK will now be able to accommodate your inelastic arms and
> will be most accommodating of your difficulties. If in
any
> form of doubt, I would in your situation simply ask if a
> Manager could assist me with the payment. Yes of course
you
> can trust your Mum, as you say where would you be without
> her. I think going on a holiday, a new experience brings
> anxieties but try to relax a little about it and I am sure
> you will do just fine.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adrien Collins" <adriencollins22160@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 8:11 PM
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Questions about chip and pin
>
>
>> Hi Eleanor
>>
>> Ok yes I have the dexterity as you put it to put my pin
> number in but
>> not all shops particularly over here have facilities for
> wheelchairs,
>> here disability isn't as far forward as it is in the uk
> but even when
>> I lived in the UK I occasionally came across occasions
> when I found it
>> difficult to get close enough to the part where the
keypad
> was so I
>> found it difficult to enter my own pin numbers, I don't
> have elastic
>> arms. Hence I have always had chip and sign cards in the
> uk but as
>> they don't do that here, I have no option than to have
> someone help
>> me. No I hope the people who will be helping me don't
take
> my money
>> but surely even you would know that you can never be too
> careful in
>> this day and age.
>> I only give my pin number to people I trust and know, if
I
> can't trust
>> mum, who can you trust? I will assess the situation when
I
> get to the
>> uk, my bank apparently is closing branches down so it
> isn't so easy
>> for me just to go into a branch but I would think under
> the current
>> financial climate and with banks buying one another out,
> there isn't
>> the need for so many branches. How ever that doesn't
> really help me. I
>> would have to go into a branch and draw cash out.
>> as I said, I will see how it works. I am coming to the uk
> for two
>> weeks but am still going to need some cash.
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Adrien
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eleanor
> Burke
>> Sent: 11 July 2012 18:55
>> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Questions about chip and pin
>>
>> Adrien I am not sure quite what is your problem, is it
> that your Mum
>> put in your pin number for you? If you have the
dexterity
> to put it
>> in yourself, then surely the shops where you make
> purchases can bring
>> the machine to your level, also there are sides on it to
> prevent
>> people from looking at your number. I would have hoped
> that these
>> helper strangers would not be out to take your money.
> Failing that,
>> wherever you are going on holiday, maybe you can have
> traveller's
>> cheques or take money out from the post office as and
> when, though
>> that could be very awkward as one often makes a
> spontaneous purchase.
>>
>> Eleanor
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Adrien Collins"
<adriencollins22160@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: "'access uk'" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 5:06 PM
>> Subject: [access-uk] Questions about chip and pin
>>
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I am going on holiday next fortnight, I will be with
>> carers,
>>> I will obviously need money and will have to pay for
>> things
>>> in shops, I am in a wheelchair and normally get help
from
> mum who
>>> goes with me but I will be with strangers, what is the
> best way to
>>> use the chip and pin in shops and banks?
>> MY
>>> BANKS cards used to be chip and sign.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Adrien
>>>
>>>
>>>
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