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Re:Coin by qqg3 on Thursday November 14, 2013 @04:13PM (#6735621)
Actually, most places WILL take the old 'swipe' cards. But most cashiers and either never worked with or forgetting about swipe cards. You just have to be very verbal and upfront and let them know yours is a swipe/ swipe and sign job.
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Re:Coin by jules on Thursday November 14, 2013 @05:28PM (#6736141)
Actually, in the Netherlands, even supermarkets stopped accepting swipe cards. The machines are still physically capable of reading swipe cards, but the supermarket simply won't let you, presumably exactly because of this risk.

Note that a lot of places wouldn't accept credit cards in the first place (swipe or not), only debit cards.

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Re:Coin by untog on Thursday November 14, 2013 @04:31PM (#6735749)
Many won't take it though, because of the increased fraud risk. I agree that the majority of cases are simple misunderstanding, but that isn't always the case.
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