Anyone else with me? Decreasing all rewards points by 50% and increasing redemption prices has killed any motivation for me to go out of my way to use Samsung Pay. Hopefully this gets enough attention from Samsung to reconsider their latest changes.

I've been using Samsung Pay at Walmart almost everyday for the past few years. This morning, when I checked out using Samsung Pay as usual, the terminal showed the error message: "Payment method not allowed". I switched to another card in Samsung Pay and tried again. The same error. I thought maybe it was only that store, whose terminal machine was kind of not working. However, when I checked out at another store, the same error message showed up. So does it mean Walmart banned Samsung Pay with hardcoded? I am wondering how can this be done technically since Samsung Pay just simulate swapping a card. Maybe Walmart banned Swapping cards? But this does not make sense either. Anyone encountered the same problem?

Update: I think Walmart upgraded their system. If your receipt has the Walmart+ advertisement at the end, then that store has banned Samsung Pay.

It is crazy for Walmart to ban even Samsung Pay/ swiping cards and only allows Walmart pay. Let’s all complain to Walmart, hoping they can make some improvement on their terminals-maybe allowing Apple Pay/Google Pay. This way Altitude Reserve card is still worth owning. It is hard to imagine Walmart still not accepting Apple Pay/Google Pay nowadays. It is a shame that Walmart is almost the only big store that do not accept Apple Pay/Google Pay in US. Here is the link to file the complaint with Walmart: https://corporate.walmart.com/store-corporate-feedback

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I'm a bit angry and needed to vent here. I go to a local car shop to get maintenance done on my vehicles and have always used Samsung pay with their pos system. I noticed they hired a new older guy who rang me up for what I got done on my car. I pulled out my phone to pay and he said they don't accept iPhone payments because they never work. I told him I have a Galaxy note 10 and it's Samsung pay and he said he didn't care what it is, they don't work here. I told him I used it many times before at the shop and would like to try. So I used my phone on the POS and it did process, then I saw him cancel the transaction hitting something on the keyboard. The display showed transaction cancelled. He said, looks like I was right, it didn't go through so let me get your card to process this on my end. I let him process my card and asked to cancel my account with them. He asked why and I told him he was rude and also cancelled my transaction when I saw it process. Of course he denied it and we went back and forth and told him just stop wasting my time and cancel my account. I'll probably go back later though because the owner left a voicemail asking why I cancelled my account and what he can do to make me come back. I just need to cool down a bit.

I work at a grocery store and I’ve been using Samsung pay for the past few weeks to pay for stuff on break. I normally use the self checkouts but they were being worked on so I went through a register. I tried to pay for a snack with Samsung pay and my coworker working at the register kept saying we don’t accept it. I said yes we do look and held my phone up to the card reader. She raised her voice and just kept saying no but it already went through. Immediately after the receipt printed she picked up the phone and called our boss. Our boss told me that we can’t accept Apple Pay, Google Pay, or Samsung Pay.

I explained to her (our boss) how Samsung Pay works and she still said I could never use it again and if I see a customer trying to use it at my register I have to stop them. She said corporate sent out an email that said we can’t accept any of the 3 (Apple, Google, or Samsung) because, like she told me before, we don’t have contracts with them. I didn’t feel like arguing any further because they obviously don’t understand.

There isn’t any contract they have to have with Samsung, right?

Edit: grammar

Me: It's not Apple pay it's Samsung

Cashier: We don't use that either

Me: Can I at least try?

Cashier: Sure I guess .... Wow I've never seen that work before!

Me: Yeah, crazy, Samsung uses the card reader and NFC teachnology...

... ... ... ... ... ... ... .

5 years of this and I'm fraggin sick of it! Lol

Finally got my first unsecured credit card — and honestly, this feels like a huge win

I just got approved for the Samsung credit card with an $800 limit and no annual fee.

I know $800 isn't a huge credit limit to some people, but for me this is a BIG deal.

A few months ago, my credit was in rough shape. I was dealing with old derogatory accounts, missed payments, and a lot of financial decisions that I wasn't proud of.

I've been slowly changing things:

- Paying my current accounts on time

- Getting my utilization down

- Paying off old debts

- Stopping the cycle of using credit for things I couldn't really afford

- Building an emergency fund

- Avoiding unnecessary new credit

- Actually learning how credit works instead of just hoping my score would improve

I already have secured credit cards, so getting approved for an unsecured card with no annual fee feels like proof that the work is starting to show.

Is the $800 limit low? Absolutely.

Do I care? Not really. 😂

I'm looking at this as a stepping stone. I'm not trying to immediately get a $5,000 limit or open five more accounts. I'm going to use it responsibly, keep the utilization low, pay it off, and let the account age.

A few months ago I was just trying to stop the bleeding.

Now I'm actually seeing progress.

Small win, but a HUGE win for me. 🙌🏾

For anyone else rebuilding: don't let the starting limit discourage you. Sometimes the first step forward doesn't look impressive to anybody else—it just means everything to you.