Wednesday, August 04, 2004

Bank problems

Does anyone know why banks can't temporarily block your Switch card, e.g. if you are 90% sure you've left it in the office they could just block it until next morning, instead of making you cancel it, and thus be five days without any money?

Also whilst I was thinking of reasons why this is not possible, I remembered those old (and almost extinct) credit card swipe machines, which took a physical imprint of the card details. And what I also want to know is if you lost your credit card back when those were the main way of validating them, how did you stop someone spending vast amounts of money on it?