[fdpaq0580]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

I really don't understand why people think it's such a hardship to use the card. Are y'all the wicked witch of the west, that you melt when exposed to water - when it's raining? Do you never take showers, or go to the pool? Or wash your faces or hands? Are you afraid your custom-woven virgin raw silk upholstery in your Rolls Royce will get bleached if you have to roll the window down on a sunny day, long enough to stick a card out and pull it back again?

I mean - what kind of obsessive compulsive disorder or phobia must one have, to be SO averse to using a gate card to get through a gate, in a community where the advertisement shows that there are gates, that people use cards to get through? Why in the world did you move to the Villages at all, if this is so profoundly offensive to your sensibilities that the very thought of using a gate card to get a gate open sends your mind spiraling into rage?

It's a gate. It's a card. It's not a big deal. The [religious] Space Lasers aren't going to come out of the card and steal your soul like the cameras in the microwave ovens do.

Such silliness.

I don't have a Rolls Royce, I have a Hyundai and the seats are plastic/vinyl? When the rain comes in the seat gets slick, so when I hit the breaks I slide onto the floor. So embarrassing! 😡

[Snowbirdtobe]

Make your own tag clones for under $25.
Get the following from Amazon.
HENA 125KHz Card Programmer, Upgraded Handheld RFID Reader Writer Duplicator Copier
ARONGTECH 125khz rewritable T5577 Sticker Coin Adhesive Back Dia 25mm Thickness 1mm

You can read your own card and write coin sized chips.
This will work with all the gates in the villages and I used them to clone my card and tested it in many gates.
This sort of access card can be made secure with passwords encoded on the card during manufacture of the chip and by writing a password on the chip during initial programming. I don't think that this was done and maintained over the 20 years that these cards were issued. I guess we'll all know the answer to that question in a year or so when the project is done.

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

I really don't understand why people think it's such a hardship to use the card. Are y'all the wicked witch of the west, that you melt when exposed to water - when it's raining? Do you never take showers, or go to the pool? Or wash your faces or hands? Are you afraid your custom-woven virgin raw silk upholstery in your Rolls Royce will get bleached if you have to roll the window down on a sunny day, long enough to stick a card out and pull it back again?

I mean - what kind of obsessive compulsive disorder or phobia must one have, to be SO averse to using a gate card to get through a gate, in a community where the advertisement shows that there are gates, that people use cards to get through? Why in the world did you move to the Villages at all, if this is so profoundly offensive to your sensibilities that the very thought of using a gate card to get a gate open sends your mind spiraling into rage?

It's a gate. It's a card. It's not a big deal. The [religious] Space Lasers aren't going to come out of the card and steal your soul like the cameras in the microwave ovens do.

Such silliness.

I used to keep mine in my wallet. That meant I had to dig out my wallet from my back pocket every time I wanted to used it.

And people complain when they're stuck behind someone digging out their card...

Have you seen people drop them when reaching out the window? I have. It's a comedy of errors watching them try to pick up the card since they can't get out of their car...

IIRC, there was a days long thread about a "nasty" gate attendant who didn't run out and pick up someone's card who had dropped it on the ground...

But just clip it to the visor! Okay, what to I use when I'm in a different car?

You're right... Complaining that people don't want to use the card is such silliness...

[Altavia]

Originally Posted by JMintzer

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Have you seen people drop them when reaching out the window? I have. It's a comedy of errors watching them try to pick up the card since they can't get out of their car...

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After doing that once, I put a small lanyard on the card ;-)

I loved the driver who smacked the red button with her hair brush :-)

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by Altavia

After doing that once, I put a small lanyard on the card ;-)

I loved the driver who smacked the red button with her hair brush :-)

I've seen some folks with a lanyard for their card. I figured that was why the card has that hole in the top near the edge. I keep mine in the back of my cell phone. The phone goes in the change shelf in the car when I'm driving that, or in the phone-holder in the golf cart when I'm driving that. So I never have to dig for it. I never go anywhere without my phone.

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

I've seen some folks with a lanyard for their card. I figured that was why the card has that hole in the top near the edge. I keep mine in the back of my cell phone. The phone goes in the change shelf in the car when I'm driving that, or in the phone-holder in the golf cart when I'm driving that. So I never have to dig for it. I never go anywhere without my phone.

Can you still charge your phone on the pad charger with cards on the back?

I found it to be a problem with my phone...

[Garywt]

Originally Posted by JMintzer

I used to keep mine in my wallet. That meant I had to dig out my wallet from my back pocket every time I wanted to used it.

And people complain when they're stuck behind someone digging out their card...

Have you seen people drop them when reaching out the window? I have. It's a comedy of errors watching them try to pick up the card since they can't get out of their car...

IIRC, there was a days long thread about a "nasty" gate attendant who didn't run out and pick up someone's card who had dropped it on the ground...

But just clip it to the visor! Okay, what to I use when I'm in a different car?

You're right... Complaining that people don't want to use the card is such silliness...

You do know you can move the card from car to car or even to the golf cart. Another option is to get additional cards.

[billethkid]

Originally Posted by Garywt

You do know you can move the card from car to car or even to the golf cart. Another option is to get additional cards.

or simply push the little red button

[Bilyclub]

Originally Posted by Mustang428j

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Apparently you haven't read the whole thread. They are updating the system and are not stating if the current cloned stuff will still work with the new system.

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by fdpaq0580

I don't have a Rolls Royce, I have a Hyundai and the seats are plastic/vinyl? When the rain comes in the seat gets slick, so when I hit the breaks I slide onto the floor. So embarrassing! 😡

I'm sorry

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by Garywt

You do know you can move the card from car to car or even to the golf cart. Another option is to get additional cards.

I found it easier to get the mirror chip...

Good thing we have choices, isn't it?

[Garywt]

Originally Posted by JMintzer

I found it easier to get the mirror chip...

Good thing we have choices, isn't it?

Yes but the new gate readers are supposedly eliminating the cloned cards from working. Sounds like the Villages only wants the given cards to work.

[Altavia]

Originally Posted by Garywt

Yes but the new gate readers are supposedly eliminating the cloned cards from working. Sounds like the Villages only wants the given cards to work.

This is technically unlikely unless all cards are replaced..

[MrFlorida]

Originally Posted by DARFAP

Just push the red button.

Pushing the red button as well as waving your gate card is easy enough, However people with the duplicate in the mirror don't have to roll down the window to do it....that's the reason people are upset.

[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by MrFlorida

Pushing the red button as well as waving your gate card is easy enough, However people with the duplicate in the mirror don't have to roll down the window to do it....that's the reason people are upset.

Envy?