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“Yes, Sainsburys really do need to get their technology sorted out, no contactless payments at my store (and they only replaced the self-serves late last year). Tesco accept contactless, but oddly enough my latest Tesco credit card (issued only last year) is not a contactless one.
Needless to say, neither Sainsburys Bank nor Tesco Bank has signed up to Android Pay yet, so the two cards that I would really value on Android Pay can't be used.”
The 'rumour' is that Sainsbury's will be accepting contactless 'sometime' in 2016. I wouldn't hold my breath though. They have replaced all of the pin pads with ones that can potentially accept contactless but don't seem to have switched on the functionality.
I don't know if Tesco still have a JV with RBS/Natwest for their financial products, but it might explain the lack of support for Android Pay as Natwest and RBS don't support Android Pay currently.
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“Your card issued will set a number of parameters on your card(s) relating to offline usage. I assume the virtual card on your phone works the same when set up.”
It seems to always call for authorisation on both my credit and debit card, the latter I know works offline for contactless as it authorises straight away and goes to 'approved' and prints the receipt and doesn't deduct from my available balance. There's no contactless on my credit card, it's a HSBC/FD thing.
Whereas if I use the same card through Android Pay there's always a delay/lag of some seconds where it sticks on 'authorising / please wait' where it phones home. It's quite apparent on the standalone card machines that use dialup or gprs.
Has anyone else noticed this with Android Pay? Is this a thing banks have mandated to buy into the scheme?