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• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Do you guys still do the hilarious chip & sign thing or have you finally switched to using a PIN?

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  • MutilationWave@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You think that’s hilarious? There are a lot of places in the world that still do a manual shhk-shhk of a card only a few years ago. Now that most cards don’t have raised digits, they’ll write it down. If they even take a card.

    Places where the Internet goes down if it rains and there is no mobile service. Imagine the horror.

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    • laurelraven@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Not only that but many of them give you cash back, so if you never carry a balance (and therefore never pay interest), and don’t use it wherever they charge a credit card service fee, it’s basically a free discount almost everywhere.

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  • laurelraven@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Funny thing, we didn’t do chip and pin because the credit card companies thought we were too stupid to figure it out, in spite of the fact that we already used pins for debit cards… We now do have chip and pin, but only for bank/debit cards

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  • the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yes, the former. This country mannnn

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We just do chip, no sign unless it’s over some threshold (must be pretty high since I’ve spent nearly $1k at a single Costco trip). I’ve never used a PIN on a credit card.

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