[access-uk] Re: Questions about chip and pin

  • From: "Vince Thacker" <vince@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 01:46:30 +0100

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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