It is not about being "correct" it is about being consistent. If you have 1,000 receipts with an X then it is good enough for the cc company. The signature matc

It is not about being "correct" it is about being consistent. If you have 1,000 receipts with an X then it is good enough for the cc company. The signature matching the card one is only used when the value of the transaction is high and rare enough. i.e. not for daily groceries. For more important manners a bank might check and tell you if your signature has drifted from the one you used before. On the other hand they might move all your savings to a different country because of a fraudulent badly written letter. Banks are banks