I've had problems with the chips themselves. I had a card whose chip worked perfectly for maybe a year or more before I lost it. The replacement chip worked for

I've had problems with the chips themselves. I had a card whose chip worked perfectly for maybe a year or more before I lost it. The replacement chip worked for about a week then I'd get a chip error every time and everywhere. So I got another replacement which didn't work out of the envelope. So I got a third replacement and it worked exactly one time before breaking. At this point I've just given up and insert the card three times before being forced to use the mag strip. I don't even know what else to do...