Well, I wrote this blurb 2 years ago. Since that time, I got disenchanted with the device and moved on. Spend time on Windows phone with their wallet app and on iPhone with the 7 and 8 and apple pay. Apple pay is pretty good and will work almost anywhere. Then the Note 8 came out. Several of my friends tried the Note...and raved about it. I was trying to decide what to do...get the Note 8 or the Pixel 2xl. So I did what any phone freak would do. I bought both. I have my note now, and the 2xl next week.
So, I visited a restaurant in the mall last week and tried apple pay. Way messed up. Yesterday I walked in with my new Note and Samsung pay. Yeah I tried it. Yeah they laughed at me...glutton for punishment they said. Then it beeped. The cashier...the same one from last week, called the manager over. Said, he couldn't get it to work last week, but it works now. I thought it wasn't turned on. Manager looks at me and asks...what did you do. I said, let me show you...reached over and grabbed a bottle of water, grabbed my phone, did the thingy, and ding...it worked. Of course, I got the complimentary lecture about apple pay doesn't work yet. I replied, again, if this was Apple pay I would not have tried. Told him about Samsung Pay and the new NOTE. Manager, a fountain of wisdom he was, replied, strange, doesn't look like an iPhone. I knew I would never eat there again.
And thats how Samsung Pay and the new Note 8, cost me my favorite restaurant in the local Mall.
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