OT(ish) - signing back of credit card

I've not had lack of adhesion but I have produced some very scratchy looking signatures that I am not proud of!

Why can't the bank print the signature on the back anyway before posting the card? This would be better for security and less easy to tamper with.

Yes. I did the same as you.

No - assuming that the recipient cannot reproduce my signature. It's what the DVLA do with driving licences.

Answers on a postcard please :-)

AB

With chip+pin, who checks signatures anyway?

Owain

I can't recall the last time I needed a signature when using a card. Ts&Cs say Not Valid Unless Signed which might be a get out clause for stolen cards.

However if I stole an unsigned card then signed it myself who would know?

Cheers

Dave R

It doesn't usually take them long to spot its being used in a different way. Then they stop it or phone the person its issued to and ask what they have been buying.

No. Never had a problem. If the biro writes at all, it writes on the back of the card.

Well you would know. And over the years, the guilt would eat away at your psyche, until you ended up looking like Gollum.

I find it impossible to sign with a marker pen

you just get a thick black blob

tim

No. New card two weeks ago.

My CD marker pens were like fine point Sharpies (which are what I use nowadays for cards).

I signed one with a nylon tipped pen once. Went and cashed a cheque (yes it was that long ago) which they did. A few days later a new card arrived with a letter asking me to cut up the old card and sign the new one with a biro.

Can't remember the last card I actually signed...

I have no end of problems because I cannot see there is no tactile way to know where to sign. Most rub off in a few weeks I'm told most shops seem to merely rely on pins and the back security number if you are doing it over the phone.

Unless of course, like me you have a chip and signature one in which case its hit and miss who actually knows they are legal or insist on you having a passport or driving licence, which would be a unique trick for a blind person. I had awful trouble with the apple store over this last one. Indeed I'm having to get a passport merely to be able to buy anything where their finance is handled by Berkleys, berk is well named. I told me maybe we blindies should all be microchippe as we are clearly second class citizens. Brian

Yes I know Barclays is an A byt it made me feel better.

David wrote on 22/04/2019 :

I never sign them, pointless to do so.

That was the point of my suggestion that the issuing bank should pre-print the signature.

Foreign countries with limited infrastructure? Power cut and shop using the old paper vouchers?