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Signatures are optional for US cards https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/signatures-soon-may-not-be-required.php https://www.creditcards.com/credit-ca
by astura 7y ago
Signatures are optional for US cards
https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/signatures-soon-may-not-be-required.php https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/signatures-soon...
Strangely enough, it seems that this applies to mostly transactions in North America, for some reason.
That being said, an individual payment terminal can be configured to require a signature and it might take a while to switch over. The first day they were optional my grocery store got rid of them on their terminals, even for high value transactions, which I appreciated and commented on.
- ghaff 7y agoEspecially with pads, signatures as a verification mechanism are just silly in this day and age. Maybe some people actually sign legibly but most of us just do a scribble. (My signature on the back of my credit card is equally illegible so, in the rare occasions when someone does a compare, I've never had an issue. Fortunately, they do seem to be on the way out though I do typically have to sign a slip in Europe and Asia when using a US chip card.
- rconti 7y agoYeah, I don't even sign my cards. If the merchant looks at the signature line, they just hand it back to me. I've never even been asked for ID.
- ghaff 7y agoI have been asked for ID once or twice. (I think you sometimes get young clerks who were told to do something and they haven't figured out no one takes that "rule" seriously.)