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Yeah, thanks to your post, I'm not looking forward to chips becoming more popular in the US. I've never had a problem with a card reader not properly reading s

by amyjess 11y ago

Yeah, thanks to your post, I'm not looking forward to chips becoming more popular in the US. I've never had a problem with a card reader not properly reading swipes or the magnetic strip wearing down. Only times I've had a swipe fail has been when I mis-swiped the card, and that's entirely on my own klutziness, not any kind of mechanical failure. The future shouldn't be worse than the present, but it looks like that's the road we're going down...

jessaustin 11y ago
I've never had a problem with a card reader not properly reading swipes or the magnetic strip wearing down. Although it seems less common over the last several years (perhaps because now physical cards are often replaced several times before they nominally expire?), this used to be a serious problem. The most common fix for a read failure was to put the card inside a plastic grocery bag, pull the bag tight, and then reswipe it. I have no idea how this fixed anything, but I witnessed it working many times.