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    You know how the Blue cards and a few others have those chips built in for the ExpressPay service where you just hold the card up instead of swipe it. How many of you actually use it?

    I think it's a cool feature and all but I never think to use it. The main thing is only a few places take it like CVS and 7-Eleven. Swiping a card is so simply anyway I don't really feel any need to wave a card even if they took it everywhere.

    Cool feature, have two cards with it, but never bother using it.
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    don't have an american express but i know mastercard has a thing on their cards like that called pay pass but have never used it so i don't know how well it works. seems dangerous to me bec couldn't someone install a secret receiver by a cash register that would read people's cards when they are nearby? sounds possible to me!
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    I think you have to hold the card pretty close to the reader. I don't even think it will work if your card is a few inches away so it should be safe but I could be wrong.

    A lot of cards have that Mastercard Paypass on them. What I would rather see is something built into cell phones. But then again being how often I break my phone that may not be the best idea.
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    I like the Express Pay on my blue card

    They have it at a lot of places and that way I don't have to touch that dirty pen stylus to sign for the credit cards that thousands of other people have touched.
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