N26 will be leaving the UK

Re:N26 will be leaving the UK by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @04:13PM (#22302918)

We started a UK shop 16 years ago and still had counterfoil machines (you put a card in, put a paper slip on it, push a roller over the card to ink an impression of the details, ...). You could definitely still swipe your card then.

Also from memory, I'd guess 10-12 years as the point when chip&pin was required for _every_ card transaction. Now of course we have moved on to also have contactless.

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Re:N26 will be leaving the UK by Intermernet on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @10:14PM (#22305402)

Useless aside: I used to do phone support for retail stores and when the EFTPOS went down I had to guide them through the process of using the counterfoil machine.

No one would know what I was talking about unless I referred to it as the "click-clack" machine.

Now I can only think of them using that name.

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Re:N26 will be leaving the UK by Symbiote on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @06:01PM (#22303895)

You can still use counterfoil machines if you want to. You just accept all the risk.

A former employer uses one for selling excess stock to staff.

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