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Make a scannable email address to get a paperless receipt – Barcodely

15 points by posteezy 10y ago

camkego 10y ago
If I really ask retailers to scan a barcode to email me my receipt, aren't they going to look at me like a space alien? I have never heard of such a thing.
ishi 10y ago
There's also a need for a solution to give somebody your email address over the phone. Often when talking to representatives, they want to send you something by email (e.g. a receipt). But when I spell my email address over the phone, there's a 50% chance that the other side got it wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c6UxGCyhQY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c6UxGCyhQY (caution: NSFW language, but funny)
- flarg 10y ago
  Something like the NATO alphabet works well for me, and i have a foreign name and email address.
zie 10y ago
Apple Pay and NFC payments have been publicly out since 2014, and yet still many many cashiers freak out whenever you try to pay using Apple Pay. Thankfully MOST places take chip/pin now and almost all of those also take Apple Pay, even if they don't know they do. I end up doing a lot of NFC and Apple Pay education! I can't imagine me trying to get them to scan a barcode going very well, half the time they get confused about their own rewards cards!
- dvcc 10y ago
  Going off this, requesting an email receipt is something that should probably be handled by Apple Pay/NFC payments and not an additional barcode. One touch, approved and receipt emailed (the pesky chips take too long to verify).
  - WorldMaker 10y ago
    Aside: a frustration of mine is that the chips take so long to verify for artificial reasons of security theater. Because American banks are too lazy to manage PINs and consumers too lazy to want to punch in PINs, which essentially are a necessary user salt to the process, the systems just request two hashes instead, wanting about a minute in between to make sure the wall clock time is different. Just like everywhere else, American Banks don't understand two factor authentication and would rather just check the same factor twice for the appearance of security rather than actual security. The sad irony being that the lazy wait for wall clock time solution is slower than punching in a PIN would be.

15 points by posteezy 10y ago

If I really ask retailers to scan a barcode to email me my receipt, aren't they going to look at me like a space alien? I have never heard of such a thing.

ishi 10y ago

There's also a need for a solution to give somebody your email address over the phone. Often when talking to representatives, they want to send you something by email (e.g. a receipt). But when I spell my email address over the phone, there's a 50% chance that the other side got it wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c6UxGCyhQY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c6UxGCyhQY (caution: NSFW language, but funny)

flarg 10y ago
Something like the NATO alphabet works well for me, and i have a foreign name and email address.

zie 10y ago

Apple Pay and NFC payments have been publicly out since 2014, and yet still many many cashiers freak out whenever you try to pay using Apple Pay. Thankfully MOST places take chip/pin now and almost all of those also take Apple Pay, even if they don't know they do. I end up doing a lot of NFC and Apple Pay education! I can't imagine me trying to get them to scan a barcode going very well, half the time they get confused about their own rewards cards!

dvcc 10y ago
Going off this, requesting an email receipt is something that should probably be handled by Apple Pay/NFC payments and not an additional barcode. One touch, approved and receipt emailed (the pesky chips take too long to verify).
- WorldMaker 10y ago
  Aside: a frustration of mine is that the chips take so long to verify for artificial reasons of security theater. Because American banks are too lazy to manage PINs and consumers too lazy to want to punch in PINs, which essentially are a necessary user salt to the process, the systems just request two hashes instead, wanting about a minute in between to make sure the wall clock time is different. Just like everywhere else, American Banks don't understand two factor authentication and would rather just check the same factor twice for the appearance of security rather than actual security. The sad irony being that the lazy wait for wall clock time solution is slower than punching in a PIN would be.