I have seen some brand new card reader, Tried insert the EMV but none of them read the card.... The casher said wow, they never know the readers have those function..
the walmart near my house uses those readers. a couple of weeks ago i tried to use my bofa alaska airlines card by swiping. nothing was happening. the clerk told me to swipe again. then she asked me if my card was "one of those that has the chip thingy" and i said yes. she then said swiping cards with chip will not work. she had me insert the chip in the reader and voila!...asked for signature and purchase was done.
from what the clerk told me, that is now how these cards need to be done for purchases. not sure if it was just for that particular store. but one thing that pissed me off...it scratched up my card really bad! there was a bit of a resistance trying to get the card in the slot so i had to kinda shove it in.
@TravellingNomad wrote:the walmart near my house uses those readers. a couple of weeks ago i tried to use my bofa alaska airlines card by swiping. nothing was happening. the clerk told me to swipe again. then she asked me if my card was "one of those that has the chip thingy" and i said yes. she then said swiping cards with chip will not work. she had me insert the chip in the reader and voila!...asked for signature and purchase was done.
from what the clerk told me, that is now how these cards need to be done for purchases. not sure if it was just for that particular store. but one thing that pissed me off...it scratched up my card really bad! there was a bit of a resistance trying to get the card in the slot so i had to kinda shove it in.
My BOA card has an EMV chip but the mag stripe still works at the local Walmart. The terminals do have chip readers. I've never tried using them.
@Leadberry wrote:
@TravellingNomad wrote:the walmart near my house uses those readers. a couple of weeks ago i tried to use my bofa alaska airlines card by swiping. nothing was happening. the clerk told me to swipe again. then she asked me if my card was "one of those that has the chip thingy" and i said yes. she then said swiping cards with chip will not work. she had me insert the chip in the reader and voila!...asked for signature and purchase was done.
from what the clerk told me, that is now how these cards need to be done for purchases. not sure if it was just for that particular store. but one thing that pissed me off...it scratched up my card really bad! there was a bit of a resistance trying to get the card in the slot so i had to kinda shove it in.
My BOA card has an EMV chip but the mag stripe still works at the local Walmart. The terminals do have chip readers. I've never tried using them.
yeah it was weird...i swiped it twice and nothing...then clerk told me to insert it in the chip reader. i think i will go back there again and try another one of my EMV cards to see if the cashier will tell me to use the chip reader.
Some retailers have EMV terminals but they are inactive right now, so they won't work. However keep in mind that if you swipe an EMV card at a terminal that is activated for EMV, it will prompt you or the cashier to insert chip.
