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Wish it was possible with The Times.
by timeon 4y ago
Wish it was possible with The Times.
- bobthepanda 4y agoThe New York Times also has this issue, funnily enough.
- WalterBright 4y agoI just let it lapse when my credit card number had to be changed.
- glandium 4y agoSpeaking about that... I was very surprised that when my card expired and I got a new one, which has the same number, a different expiry date, and a new security code on the back, all I had to give Amazon was the new expiry date, not the security code...
- tzs 4y agoThat doesn't always work. The major credit card companies have updater services which are support by most major payment processors which as long as the underlying account has not changed will provide merchants who have the card on-file notifications of card number changes and expiration date changes. Some issuing banks don't participate but most of the major issuers do. At the small place I work this is delightfully old fashioned. There's an HTTPS API we can use to submit cards we want to check. The submission format consists of one line per card, with each line being formatted as a bunch of space-padded fields. It would be right at home on a punched card being feed to some FORTRAN or COBOL code on an IBM 360. There's another API to get responses. We poll that once a day. Responses are in a similar punched card like format, containing one line for each card. The time for a given card's response to show up varies from one day to several. There is no "there will be no response" response. I think the big companies get a more modern interface. I've had a couple of occasions where I needed to have my current card cancelled and a new one issued, and almost as soon as I got off the phone with the bank I've gotten a notice on my phone that the old card in Apple Wallet has been updated.
- Havoc 4y agoEconomist too. Online subscribe...phone in during office hours to unsub.