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  • What happened to good ol swiping

    So I was at my local bullseye and tried my store ccd to pay. As usual they ask for a chip. Nothing. Tried a different reader. Nothing. Called someone. They were flummoxed. Called customer service. They sent me a new card. Tried it. Nothing.
    I miss swiping. Chips suck. Anyone else have similar frustrations?
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    With regularity. The chip on my main card often requires two or three attempts to go through, though the last time I used it at a store it would not even register that the chip was inserted at one store but worked fine at the next store. Hate them so much, only reason I have it was we had to get mine reissued after someone tried to buy two Apple Watches as a store 3 states away.

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    • #3
      Chips here in Canada work pretty good. I've never had trouble with my chip. My fav feature is the tap to pay now. I recently had to replace my card after my hubby broke the tap thing inside the card, making the tap part rarely work.

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      • #4
        The chip readers at Walmart (and supposedly every other retailer) have a built in work around. If the chip errors three times in a row you can then slide the card to use it.

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        • #5
          And remember, it may not be your card, but their POS system. Those things are more abused than an arcade machine.
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          • #6
            I had far more problems swiping than I have with the chip. However the one place that I had a problem was Bullseye. You had to hold the card in the slot, if you let go it would not sense the chip. Had to move to a different SCO and it worked just fine.
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            • #7
              Quoth raudf View Post
              And remember, it may not be your card, but their POS system.
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                • #9
                  I really think it's the machine more than the card. Here, every store has a different system! Some of them are confusing, or don't work correctly. The place that has the easiest system to use, believe it or not, is the Family Dollar store. Instructions are clear and simple.
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                  • #10
                    Yeah, where I work, it's most likely to be the reader having a problem rather than the card. Bits of dirt get pushed into the reader, or the card isn't quite where the machine needs the chip to be, or the machine just doesn't like that customer*!

                    *seriously, there's a couple of customers we always take on our second till, because their card never works on till 1. It's become a running joke now, and luckily the customers are regular and is in on the joke!

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                    • #11
                      The problem with "good ol swiping" is the cards are just too easy to counterfeit. It's at the point where there are hundreds of thousands of valid card numbers out there ready to be used; take an old or defunct or stolen-but-canceled physical card and re-encode the strip for the new card. Want the last four digits to match? The odds of finding one that matches are one in ten thousand, but with hundreds of thousands of choices, finding one is simple. What about matching the CVV code? Only one in a thousand, easy-peasy.

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                      • #12
                        I think this is why Sheetz, a local food place/gas station around here, has disabled their chip entirely. Every one I have been in has had theirs disabled. They say they have too many problems with them.
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                        • #13
                          Yeah, I get why they moved to the chip, but I didn't want to go to a chipped card, but my bank forced it on me. Problem was, the mail they sent with my new card in it, never arrived. So I didn't find out I'd been chipped until I tried to use my non-chipped card and it wasn't working.

                          My missing chip card never got stolen or used or anything, so my bank just cancelled it and sent me a new one, but it's worked pretty much everywhere...

                          ...except at one particular Bullseye. Their readers would not read my card, if they overrode it and tried to swipe my card, it wouldn't work, it wouldn't work when they manually entered it. They'd tell me to call my bank, and I'd tell them "I just came from it, they're across the street. It works at every other store except yours." And it was true, I've gone to other Bullseyes, and my card works fine, just not at this particular one.

                          It's not too much of an issue anymore, since the 'bad' Bullseye is now further away since I moved, and the closest Bullseye's machines read my card and its chip with no problem.
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                          • #14
                            Quoth Jay 2K Winger View Post
                            They'd tell me to call my bank, and I'd tell them "I just came from it, they're across the street. It works at every other store except yours."
                            If this comes up with anyone else here... Call the number on your card (don't go to the bank branch) and tell them about your problem. IIRC there's a system in place for handling compatibility problems like that.

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                            • #15
                              The local Wally World's POS has decided it doesn't like my chip card, refuses to acknowledge it exists anymore, it used to but not anymore. Wally World is the only place, so far, that doesn't like my chip card.
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