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Though very few and far between at this point, I'd say there are still a few times a year when I explicitly need to swipe a magstripe on my credit card - most r
by sethhochberg 8y ago
Though very few and far between at this point, I'd say there are still a few times a year when I explicitly need to swipe a magstripe on my credit card - most recently a rural gas station in the California desert where I was seriously dependent on being able to fill up a tank.
I think many people, myself included, would still consider a credit card without the option to fall back to magstripe a nonstarter for their primary physical payment method.
- MBCook 8y agoYou need it in case you have EMV issues as well, or for lots of older little Square payment places, or heck most gas stations.
- usaphp 8y agomy local Sees Candies don't have a chip reader and only accept swipes for some reason
- int_19h 8y agoI still see many, many places that have chip readers, but the slot is taped over with a sign saying "swipe please" or something to that effect. And I don't mean dinky shops, either.
- banana_giraffe 8y agoWhat about people that use "knuckle-busters" to make a carbon impression of the card's numbers? I have a card that has a real number, but doesn't have the embossed numbers on it, so it too wouldn't work in such a machine. To be fair, it's been years since I've run into one of those machines, so they may no longer be used, or people that use them are just used to rejecting cards they can't impression.
- sethhochberg 8y agoAs far as I know, writing down the card details manually instead of taking an imprint is a viable option.
- mlindner 8y agoSeems like an easy way to commit fraud. They copy down the numbers and then you walk way with your merchandise/product and then use apple to revoke the card number.