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I don't know if this is a false memory but I seem to recall at least one time when I saw a vendor swipe a card because chip didn't work on that particular occas
by mehrdadn 7y ago
I don't know if this is a false memory but I seem to recall at least one time when I saw a vendor swipe a card because chip didn't work on that particular occasion for some reason. I don't know if magnet is actually more reliable, but it does seem to be that way to me.
- oblio 7y agoIn Europe I've never used the magnetic stripe. Across 10+ countries, for the past 10+ years.
- mehrdadn 7y agoThis is about the US.
- oblio 7y agoTrue, but the point was about the reliability of the tech. My point was that the chip can be just as reliable as the magnetic strip.
- Haul4ss 7y agoThe chip is nearly 100% reliable (absent any manufacturing defects). It's the network in the U.S. that is stuck in the 1970s. Even with the supposed requirement to move to chip terminals, I still come across so many merchants who either (1) don't even have a chip reader, or (2) have a little sticky note on the payment terminal that says "chip broken". What's really surprising is when a new store opens (restaurant, typically), and they don't have a chip reader on day one. They still swipe. I've had my card skimmed more times than I can count over the decades. That we're still dealing with this problem in 2019 is maddening.
- cameronbrown 7y agoThey still exist in the UK, but I've never seen one used.
- corobo 7y agoI 'used' it once when Sainsbury's first introduced their self checkouts, for some reason it asked me to do it after I tried chip+pin. Didn't work. Ended up having to pop outside to the cashpoint to get analogue money out. I assume it's just one of those old weird technologies that just exists because solely it's not been removed yet like fax machines