Re:Can the Visa-Mastercard duopoly be broken?
by eek2121 on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @11:24PM
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You described the US (regarding not signing, you are mistaken about the signature aspect). Most places stopped accepting signatures several years ago. Card readers are almost always 'insert' except in the very rare case where a card doesn't have a chip. Tap and pay is not common, however tap and pay is more common than signing something (in the US companies have been resisting tap and pay due to higher transactional rates). I haven't signed for a transaction outside of a restaurant across 17 states and 4 years. As I mentioned above, the last place I did sign for a transaction was in Canada.
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Re:Can the Visa-Mastercard duopoly be broken?
by PaulDavisThe1st on Thursday August 18, 2022 @09:57AM
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Still no PIN as in the UK and Europe (and maybe most of the rest of the world, though). If you steal a chip card in the USA, you can use it. Not so elsewhere.