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Are magstripe cards expected to survive that?
by afandian 3y ago
Are magstripe cards expected to survive that?
- alexdbird 3y agoThat's not an issue in most of the world; I don't think any of my current cards have ever been swiped. However there are still plenty of transit tickets that use a magstripe, and having those wiped is super inconvenient.
- somehnguy 3y agoHotel keys are what comes to mind as the only cards that I still swipe. A year ago I checked into a hotel and went back out to the car to grab my stuff - when getting back in I learned that I had immediately wiped the magstrip by putting it in my phone pocket. Had to reroute right back to the front desk.
- IggleSniggle 3y agoI lost the ability to use a parking exit card (mag swipe) due to a having a magnet in my wallet a year ago.
- LtWorf 3y agoI was in vacation in greece and we had issues because seemingly the phones reset their magnetic keys, so we needed a new one daily until we were told to keep them in a different pocket.
- NavinF 3y agoAll the magstripes on my credit cards, library card, etc survived magstripes for over 2 years now. Tho I guess I wouldn't know if a card got wiped recently since I've been using contactless+biometric payments for almost the same length of time in the US. I've had paper magstripes (Paris metro tickets) wiped by magsafe so it's technically possible if the magstripe is extremely cheap/weak. IIRC metros are phasing out paper tickets for this reason
- dontlaugh 3y agoAre they still used? None of my cards have one.
- afandian 3y agoAll the UK payment cards I've ever had have one. I don't know if ATMs use them or the chips. For payment itself contactless is now the norm. UK printed train tickets are all magstripe. There are phone-based alternatives and contactless payment card alternatives in London. But the magstripe tickets are still mainstream.
- dontlaugh 3y agoAlso UK. All of my renewed ones lack magstripes, I didn’t realise they’re still around.