Contactless card wont work for me - but does for anyone else - why?

notxn85

notxn85

notxn85

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The title just about sums it up!
I try to use a contactless card and it just won't work, hand the card to my wife - or shop assistant and it works.
It will work for me using a pin - but not contactless.
This is not one specific card - and it is not a new thing, for years it has been the same, and any card, some days it might work - some days it won't and on a won;t day I can fail in one shop and it will fail in another too.
I can hold the card in the same way as others, and turn it over or end to end just in case I find a working position.
Am I a ghost or zombie?
Do I absorb EMF or do I send it out?

I understand that it might be my thick dry skin that makes mobile phone screens unresponsive - that happens sometimes and perhaps using my little finger will work but my chunky work worn index fingers won't but if course that is nothing like the contactless card issue.

I will welcome any ideas - serious or not as I am doubtful I will find a "cure".
 
Thanks for all the suggestions - I will have a go next time I am shopping - I'll take my glasses off, no problem about smartwatch as I don;t wear one - but more about that later, I'll increase my tinfoil hat thickness, it might be that the implant I get tomorrow (I'm old enough and have the covid vaccine shot tomorrow) will make it better or worse, I am not sure it I have an adamantium skeleton but I could kill two birds by touching my wife's leg - it has a metal plate so it might act like a chair leg, and will wear a pair of gloves and use the protective sleeves. If that doen't do the job!
It is not a card issue as it will work straight away if soemone else tries it, so not entering pin or reached my limit.
The bit about the smartwatch did remind me, quite a time ago I borrowed a wind-up watch for a couple of hours as I needed to go to the bank during lunch hour and preferred not to return to work late - the watch slowed by 15 minutes.
Perhpas I should try the Google pay thing, if my Android phone will do it - it may be updated to android 10 but being a few years old it does not like lots of apps.
It's a pity they don't have the traveling freak shows now.
More suggestions gratefully received.....
 
Well, no solution - but more intrigue - I have a new phone with fingerprint ID - it says the fingerprint scanner needs cleaning as it can't detect my finger. I think it will be best not to enable that feature! Am I a zombie?
 
I think you are right Angilion, because I can hold the card against the reader and wait forever. However showing it just does not work for me and letting the cashier succeed is a far better way to start a conversation! I do feel like I have been left behind by modern human technology.
 
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