Stop Paying for Gas with Your Debit Card

Re:Stop Paying for Gas with Your Debit Card by pdemporg on Thursday August 22, 2019 @11:57PM (#20774409)

I may have missed something, but why specifically when paying for petrol? Surely the advice here should be to stop using debit entirely?

(Alternatively, choose to use cash now - or you won't have the choice in the future.)

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Re:Stop Paying for Gas with Your Debit Card by windexh8er on Friday August 23, 2019 @12:08AM (#20774446)

Because American gas pumps still primarily use magstripe readers and thus skimmers are still a problem. Many new pumps are starting to get Apple/Android contactless payment, but I've found that most of the pumps that have the hardware don't actually have it enabled for whatever reason.

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Re:Stop Paying for Gas with Your Debit Card by mikestew on Friday August 23, 2019 @01:48AM (#20774836)

An AM/PM gas station in Bellevue, WA recently spent months tearing out tanks and putting new pumps in. “Sweet, I go by there every day, maybe the pumps will have NFC/Apple Pay.” NFC? The new pumps don’t even have chip readers. It is still mag stripe only. Words are inadequate.

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Re:Stop Paying for Gas with Your Debit Card by toomuchtodo on Friday August 23, 2019 @12:05PM (#20778977)

Conversely, some Wawa convenience stores are only getting Tesla superchargers, no gas pumps (and Tesla automatically dings your CC on file for Supercharging). Interesting to see the dichotomy.

The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed. Apologies to Gibson.

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Re:Stop Paying for Gas with Your Debit Card by jfim on Friday August 23, 2019 @12:52AM (#20774610)

Some gas stations are cash/debit only to avoid credit card interchange fees, and thus can have a slightly lower price than other gas stations.

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