• 9point6@lemmy.world
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    29 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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      29 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.

      The other side of the coin - paying with debit (which has a pin) is stupid in the US. Unless you can’t control your spending, credit card is the way to go for every legal purchase you don’t mind being tied to you forever. CCs have far superior consumer protection than the law.

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      28 days 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