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To be fair, they're the ones that don't know how to conduct business transactions in the 21st century. Consider that they just paid a "you had better update you
by craftyguy 9y ago
To be fair, they're the ones that don't know how to conduct business transactions in the 21st century. Consider that they just paid a "you had better update your system" tax.
- reaperducer 9y agoTo be fair, there are vast swaths of America, larger than some European nations, where credit card transactions are necessarily done on carbon paper with the old imprinting machines. I was at a hotel that did it just last week. Updating your POS system to chip-and-PIN doesn't help if there's no infrastructure (or reliable infrastructure) to plug it in to.
- craftyguy 9y agoWhy are they "necessarily done on carbon paper"? You would be hard-pressed to find locations in the US, where credit card holders generally wander, where there is no inet access..
- syncsynchalt 9y agoI assume they're referring to national parks, Alaska, and so on. Yellowstone is the size of Cyprus, and Death Valley is the size of Montenegro, to use two examples without much internet access. Alaska is three times the size of the Iberian peninsula and most of it does not have internet (though to be fair most of it has no population or tourism).
- Dylan16807 9y agoSatellite internet is cheap enough that I'd consider the only good excuse to be a complete lack of power. And even that is becoming less true as solar drops in price.
- iamatworknow 9y agoI live near the Adirondack mountains in New York, where internet access is still dial-up or satellite. In most places populated enough to have stores, however, there is 3G cell service and that allows for wireless POS terminals and ATMs. The places I've seen either use that or accept cash only.