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What a sad day. Swipes were far more user friendly and the failure rate with reading these chips is unreal. Here's to hoping the next "upgrade" isn't a nightma
by fny 5y ago
What a sad day. Swipes were far more user friendly and the failure rate with reading these chips is unreal.
Here's to hoping the next "upgrade" isn't a nightmare.
- kube-system 5y agoContactless works pretty well in my experience and doesn’t put any physical wear on the card. There’s a couple big retailers still holding out, but most places I go seem to have it enabled these days.
- grecy 5y agoI've been exclusively using the chip in my Credit and Debit Cards for at least a decade - every transaction works, every time for the life of the card. I've used them from Botswana to Egypt to Morocco to Canada through Central and South America and Australia. They work perfectly.
- deepspace 5y agoWhat country are you in? In the past 10 or so years, I have NEVER had a failure with a Chip-and-Pin transaction or a contactless transaction in Canada.
- PostThisTooFast 5y agoOK Gramps.
- pitterpatter 5y agoHow so? There's no swipe motion you need to get right; just slide in the card and done?
- herbst 5y agoThe only bottleneck I am aware of are the sometimes way to slow internet connections these terminals use. My cards just work