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Chips cards not working at certain merchants

skigirl916 — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 20:31:11 GMT

I was at a parking garage, and my chip cards wouldn't work at the pay station - said it "couldn't read" the card. I came across the same problem when trying to buy an RTD ticket at the lightrail station.

What other types of merchants have you found unable to read/accept cards with chips? I want to be prepared.

Re: Chips cards not working at certain merchants

taxi818 — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 20:42:11 GMT

even if it does not take chip. you should still be able to swipe like any other place. i found that circle k here in florida. does not read the chip. even they have it. i just swipe instead after the decline. that is that merchants option to enable it or disable it for now.

Re: Chips cards not working at certain merchants

Anomalous — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 20:50:45 GMT

Lowe's in my city. However, I've noticed that some merchants either position the readers in an upright position preventing one from inserting the card in that slot or place some barrier over it.

Re: Chips cards not working at certain merchants

skigirl916 — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 20:57:12 GMT

@taxi818 wrote:
even if it does not take chip. you should still be able to swipe like any other place. i found that circle k here in florida. does not read the chip. even they have it. i just swipe instead after the decline. that is that merchants option to enable it or disable it for now.

I tried the cards in these machines, and received error messages that the cards could not be read. Tried three of them, each more than once. Fourth card, sans chip, worked immediately.

Re: Chips cards not working at certain merchants

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 21:01:12 GMT

only card I use for chip reader enabled machine is diners club card, and it works flawlessly at walmart's register. Target's got their chip reader slots blocked, but when i swipped the card, it still went through. Sprouts's machine dosn't read the chip for some reason, but paypass works, so you can do that as well.

Re: Chips cards not working at certain merchants

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 21:04:45 GMT

In my area Academy sports has them but doesnt work, Stripes convenience stores, H-E-B, and Sutherlands home improvement stores.