Restaurants do this. That’s pretty normal in the US. For other point of sale machines, like cash registers at a store, you should just be able to tap the card on a machine located next to the register.
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TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 month agoI would 100% follow them to see what they’re doing with my card.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
But apparently restaurants don’t have a normal point of sale machine at the entrance? Why tuck it away at the back?
breadsmasher@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Gonna jump over the bar? Easy way to get kicked out
bladerunnerspider@lemmy.world 1 month ago
After you had your meal? Sounds like a win
coriza@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Then you will “love” to know that they can still charge the card after they have swiped it. I was floored when I noticed it. So you give the card and then they come back with your card and a new bill that has a place for you to write down how much tip you wanna add. You do not give your card again, you just leave the paper in the table and they will add the amount to what they are gonna charge your in your cc. This would not fly in my country, I am actually shocked that cc fraud is not more widespread in the US with how “low security” it all seems. Once I when to buy something and I head forgotten my cc PIN (because now always using contactless pay and such", the person handling the register told me I can skip it, and sure enough, there was an option on the machine to skip entering the PIN. I guess the PIN stuff is new in the US and people are not used to IT so it is not even a red flag to say that you do not know your own PIN and they even have the case built-in in the software. Shocking.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Oh wow. Just wow.
A system like that is just begging to be exploited to the point that it begins to smell like a honeypot operation.
Donjamos@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’d just not hand them my card
Univ3rse@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
I don’t believe you’d enjoy an interaction with our police…
Donjamos@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m fairly certain that you are allowed to decline letting someone take your card and take it out of your sight. All the card company’s are propably even having something in their contracts that forbids you from doing exactly that.
Univ3rse@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
Sure, but you need to pay, and if all you have is a card, they’re not going to let you into an employee area because you’re being weird about a very basic interaction. In fact, that’s even more reason to not allow you into an employee area for their safety. When you’re in another country, you have to go with their flow, regardless of what you do at home.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They are putting it in the only credit card machine that they have.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Soo… they don’t have these wireless card reader things? Is that because of American capitalism again? Where I live, even random market vendors have them.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Some do, but many haven’t bothered upgrading the system they installed 30 years ago.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Yeah, that’s a classic. If it ain’t broken but just barely limps along, infuriating everyone who uses it, and while a new system would actually work properly but costs money and effort that no one wants to spend, don’t fix it.