Banks and credit card companies have been making a big push to get customer to use Apple Pay, but perhaps no one is trying harder than Wells Fargo.
So far the bank has been doing everything from emailing customers to use Apple Pay, and even paying people just to try it out. In it’s newest effort to get card holders to activate Apple Pay, Wells Fargo has released a new ad showing how wicked fast it is to pay with your iPhone 6, rather than a credit card. So fast in fact, it might actually ruin your surprise birthday party.
Check out the funny ad below:
Buster Hein is a freelance writer who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Twitter: @bst3r.
16 responses to “Apple Pay might ruin your birthday party, according to Wells Fargo”
I’m so happy to see Banks encouraging the use of ApplePay through these “co-op” ads with Apple. Hopefully banks and their customers will be able to mitigate their exposure to fraud through this adoption of ApplePay. I have been using ApplePay wherever possible (even at Home Depot where it is not officially accepted!), but I have been asking other iPhone 6 owners I see around town if they have used it, and most everyone says that they have not, and most scarcely seem to even know about it, so these commercials should help.
It is my hope that all merchants, both brick and mortar and online, will note that IBM is reporting again this year that among those online shoppers who made mobile phone purchases on Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday, that iPhone owners trounced Google/Android owners by a factor of 4 to 1.
Doesn’t this mean that iPhone owners tend to be the more valuable customers when it comes to shopping? (Is that redundant? lol)
Here’s the problem with Wells Fargo and EVERY OTHER BANK that uses DEBIT CARDS with Apple pay. Transaction detail IS NOT AVAILABLE from data sent back to Apple from the banks. Basically, you get NOTHING. NO DETAIL except that a transaction occurred. NOT who the transaction was with, when it occurred, or what the value (size) of the transaction was…
I tried LAST WEEK to get Wells to give me an answer. I got the issue escalated to third-level Wells Tech Support who STILL HAS NOT FULFILLED THEIR COMMITMENT TO CALL ME BACK WITH AN ANSWER TO THIS PROBLEM.
I don’t believe Wells actually cares so this article is a LIE.
@Winski. That is NOT true. My debit card is with Wells Fargo and I just checked my account online. With using ApplePay, WF lists the ApplePay transactions exactly the SAME WAY they do every other charge as if it were a debit card. I have copied the transaction detail of a McDonalds purchase I made here (from my online account statement) below to prove my point. (I have omitted the amount): PURCHASE AUTHORIZED ON 11/29 MCDONALD’S M4722 O OLYMPIA WA S464334006407820 CARD 0420
Jared… Hum.. Well, TWO debit transactions i did this afternoon – one with Wells and one with US Bank both csme out EXACTLY as i desctibed it above. From what I’ve seen, YOUR experience is the exception versus the rule. So now we have a full blown dilemma. Why yours and not mine ??
I don’t know why you wouldn’t have this receipt detail come out on your statement just like I have copied here? Also WF credited my account with $10 on their promotion just to try ApplePay. Also, I have been able to use ApplePay at Home Depot and it usually works. I have also tried to use it at Best Buy and it doesn’t work there. And Best Buy irritates me for not supporting ApplePay since they are a big Apple vendor including the iPhone 6. I mean, what’s up with selling the iPhone 6 there and then not being able to use it? Lame.
Good word LAME… Describes big troll in a single word…. I’m gonna get to the bottom of this first thing Wed. AM.. Thanks for the data .. W
Seems like anyone who says anything that makes you look bad is a troll. Don’t start crap with someone if you aren’t prepared. You will lose this argument with him.
In this case sir, both Jared and i came out of this exchanginhg good info… I didn’t csll him a troll nor he, I…. Wells Fargo and other ‘BIG BIZ’ turns out to be the troll supreme !!! I’ll be on the phone tomorrow AM treating Wells LIKE a troll for varuous reasons, this being one of them !!
Good night…
You know something Jared, upon additional investigation, the information you displayed here came from your on-line account, NOT your iPhone display. Investigate the info that’s in your phone… There’s nothing there… THAT’S what i need to get fixed…
Hi Winski, I just checked my Wells Fargo app. And the ApplePay transactions DO show on there. I don’t think they show on Passbook app itself though. I suggest you get the Wells Fargo app on your phone.
I’ve got it…. Nads.. I’m also talking about the phones ApplePay app… Where you can bring up each card … NO detail on Debit Cards… Good detail on Credit catrds… I’m about to get REAL P.O. ‘D at these klowns…
Ah HA !!! It’s the PassBook app (the new one with Apple Pay in it) … The transaction shows up in my WF acvount data but with nothing to distingush it as an Apple Pay transaction… So, WF isn’t getting data back thru the Passbook app to show the transaction dats on the phone…..
Thanks… W
Jared… I spoke with both Wells and Apple this morning. I’ve never heard so much passing the buck as i did from both companies. Looks like i won’t be getting ahything. They both blamed each other
FU** THEM BOTH.
You made it sound like you weren’t getting the info from anywhere. As if you couldn’t look at your history to make sure you didn’t have fraud transactions.
Now you are saying that its just not on the digital card. Is that really such a huge damn deal. This is version one tech after all and you can get a frakking app for Wells Fargo etc and look at your history. Heck they might even have Touch ID support so you don’t have to actually use the effort to type your log in.
“transaction detail IS NOT AVAILABLE from data sent back to Apple”
And how is that a problem. Apple doesn’t want that information and if you care about your privacy you wouldn’t want them to have it either.
The way the system works is that the retailer sends the account number from your device to the bank, same as they did with your plastic card. The bank computer system locates the appropriate real account and authorizes the transaction. If Wells Fargo isn’t showing you where the transaction took place, cause it is in the request, that is their issue not Apple’s. And it’s not proof that it is happening at all banks.
Apple and i have worked thru the issue and we’re square… It’s between me and the banks… Stay out of the way.