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Would You Raise the Card Contactless Limit? What To?

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That's really odd. Amex are very specific about limiting contactless transactions to £30 unless via Apple Pay or Google Pay and there's nothing to indicate that's changed.
We went into the same Aldi's on Sunday afternoon to buy some topsoil (really good price on it at the moment) and spent about £36; again we made a contactless transaction.
 
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We went into the same Aldi's on Sunday afternoon to buy some topsoil (really good price on it at the moment) and spent about £36; again we made a contactless transaction.

Right..think I'm going to try that this weekend with my personal Amex once I'm home. Will report back here 8-)
 

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So further to my posts of a few weeks ago, went to a different Aldi’s today and was able to pay with contactless for a bill of £43, however the checkout printed out a slip for me to sign! This was with a different card to the one we used above, this was American Express issued by Lloyd’s Bank.

This shop was different to our normal but also had the new style card readers, so I think it’s something to do with their new machines.
 

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So further to my posts of a few weeks ago, went to a different Aldi’s today and was able to pay with contactless for a bill of £43, however the checkout printed out a slip for me to sign!
Now that is odd. Signature verification went out with the dinosaurs. You weren't getting cashback by any chance? (Though, I've no idea if you can do cashback with Amex).
 

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Now that is odd. Signature verification went out with the dinosaurs. You weren't getting cashback by any chance? (Though, I've no idea if you can do cashback with Amex).
No; it’s a credit card.

The receipt says ‘Signature Verified’ where the one posted earlier said ‘PIN Verified’ (but wasn’t).
 
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