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What if you use a Canadian card in the US?
by jonny_eh 14y ago
What if you use a Canadian card in the US?
- msbarnett 14y agoThey detect that and use swipe-authorization in those cases. But you can, and probably should, use the chip in Europe/Asia/Latin America where chip readers are widespread. The banks have been distributing FAQs with all of these answers for years, btw.
- masklinn 14y ago> But you can, and probably should, use the chip in Europe/Asia/Latin America where chip readers are widespread. It's still pretty common to have 2-mode readers there (wehere you can chip or swipe), though they're slowly becoming rarer and I can't remember anybody actually using swipe.
- run4yourlives 14y agoIt will be backwards compatible. :-)