From: john boyle 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Chip and Pin - no more signatures
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 19:12:41 +0100

In message <3r1eveFh7mekU1@individual.net>, usenet@isbd.co.uk writes
>john boyle  wrote:
>> In message <3qv4qlFgde3pU1@individual.net>, usenet@isbd.co.uk writes
>> >That's not my experience at all.  I am (quite typically for my age)
>> >getting more long sighted, I can see distant things fine but I need
>> >glasses to read etc.  Chip and PIN card entry keypads are a real pain
>> >to use for me whereas signing a slip is a doddle.
>>
>> So how do you check the amount on the slip then?
>
>I don't generally. I check my monthly statements fairly thoroughly though.
>When buying groceries I watch the till, that's usually well lit, fairly
>large and a long way away so I can see it OK.

Well thats the same as with C&P.

>  It's similar at many petrol
>stations though I must admit I can't always check the amount there.
>However it would be pretty easy to dispute later, you can't get that
>much petrol in a motorbike.
>
Then how is a pin -pad any worse for you? At least the 5 digit is 
universally marked and in the same place in relation to the other 
numbers.
-- 
John Boyle