Re: Who's laughing now???
Contactless cards are a bad idea - they're easy to scam and lets face it, most of us have several cards, so at £30 per transaction per card, that soon adds up to £100's just by some scammer with a scanner brushing by you and swiping your card details.
So the aluminium/tinfoil+duct tape home-made wallets do work and if you are careful, cutting off a corner of your card should break the RFID aerial. But if you just contact your bank and demand a non-contactless card they are obliged to send you a replacement one - that way you can make it plain you dont want any contactless (securityless) cards.
Thing is - this is a scam - by the banks, they don't want you to pay for stuff with cash because they can't control the transaction, they want to skim a little bit off every transaction in micro-fees. If there is fraud, they will simply refund it and recoup the costs through lower-interest rates and/or bank charges - so as always you the consumer lose.
Contacless sucks - call your bank and demand a conventional card.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
