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The cards were not Japanese but South African. I'm shocked though that the machines in Japan accept non pin cards.
by the_mitsuhiko 10y ago
The cards were not Japanese but South African. I'm shocked though that the machines in Japan accept non pin cards.
- nihonde 10y agoYeah, it's really odd. Only Post Office and 7-11 ATMs work with my non-PIN credit card. (Mine also has a chip, though.)
- yedpodtrzitko 10y ago7-Eleven and Post Offices are the only places which accept cards issued outside of Japan. I assume they have to cover all possible types of cards, otherwise people from other countries could get stuck without money here that way.
- 77pt77 10y agoSome other combinis also accept foreign cards, but yes, getting money from a foreign credit/debit card in Japan can be difficult. I hope this doesn't make it even harder to do so.
- boondaburrah 10y agoThe international ones (every 7-11 atm) have to accept everything. My Japanese card doesn't even have a magstripe, only chip and pin, so the hometown banks aren't as stupid as this may make them seem.
- frankzinger 10y agoSouth Africa has had chip-and-pin cards for a very long time, but like many other countries the magstripe was kept for compatibility with US cards (I was told). I used to think this was common the world over. Not so? (I know the US recently went chip-and-pin.)