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> Huh? I don't know what's the situation now because I hardly use the chip any more, I mostly tap (the card itself, we no longer have Google Pay), but I don't r
by hamburglar 4y ago
> Huh? I don't know what's the situation now because I hardly use the chip any more, I mostly tap (the card itself, we no longer have Google Pay), but I don't remember a single time when the chip wouldn't work.
Wow. My main card doesn't have tap capability, so I'm forced to use the chip all the time. Read failures are extremely common. I even have my own protocol for when it fails: take it out and shove it back in while holding it firmly to the left edge of the slot. If that doesn't work, try again holding it against the right edge of the slot. Sometimes, it's just sloppy alignment in the slot and doing one of those will fix it. If normal, left-aligned and right-aligned all fail, that makes three attempts so the machine will give up and have you swipe it anyway.
- kadoban 4y agoThat's really odd. I don't think mine has _ever_ failed. Maybe see if you can get a new card? Or it could be a regional thing I guess.
- hamburglar 4y agoIt's happened with every chip card I've ever had. Even with ones that were a couple days old. The cashiers often say "yeah, that chip reader has been acting up" so I know it's not me. There's even a subway sandwich place I go to frequently where one day they had a whole brand new POS system with new readers, and it failed on me, and the cashier said "yeah, brand new system and it almost never works." The Safeway POS grunts this very annoying alarm sound and shows CHIP MALFUNCTION on the screen, and it's just a standard part of my shopping experience now.