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I (USian) recently visited the UK and knew from previous experience to use only visibly chipped cards (staff will sometimes refuse to take run a swipe-only card
by iak8god 12y ago
I (USian) recently visited the UK and knew from previous experience to use only visibly chipped cards (staff will sometimes refuse to take run a swipe-only card -- not sure if the machines don't even support it?)
Anyway, the systems never asked for my PIN and printed out signature receipts, which seemed to surprise people.
- arethuza 12y agoI think most machines do support swipe cards - though from what I can see they are almost never used (I think I've seen one swipe transaction in the last few years).
- PeterisP 12y agoCashier instructions usually include "never ever swipe a chipcard" - since if you allow swiping chipcards at your chain of stores, then you'll get used for cashing out cloned cards, and in this case merchant will be fully liable for that fraud. So even when the swiping technically works, people have incentives to disallow it.