Although, in many cases signatures aren’t necessary. Anecdotally, I can only recall having to sign a handful of times in the last five or so years. (Edit: outsi

Although, in many cases signatures aren’t necessary. Anecdotally, I can only recall having to sign a handful of times in the last five or so years. (Edit: outside of restaurants.) Also: it’s important to remember that running a debit card as credit isn’t the same thing as using debit. At most banks, your credit limit for debit cards (weird sentence, yeah) is very low: like $500 or so. If you call (and have sufficient funds), they’ll often temporarily raise it for you. (It’s how I paid for school on a debit card when the school could only run it as credit.)