using the chip and signature feature

[lg8302ch]

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@Anonymous wrote:
hopefully we get used to it and it gets faster because 20 seconds just to pay is semi ridiculous lol

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I have been using chip & pin technology for the past 10+ years now and encounter no difference in speed when I swipe a US card or use a European chip & pin card. Only the chip & signature takes  a bit longer because the cashiers are not prepared to get ready to hand over the slip for signature and get confused when they see  chip cards that require signature ....lol

[Anonymous]

Wal Mart in my town requires use of the chip feature, but nobody else even seems to know what it is. My QS1 has the chip. I asked the guy at Game Stop if I should swipe or insert it and he didn't have any clue what I was talking about. My only problem with using the chip is that I'm afraid I might leave my card sticking in the machine. Luckily walmart's machine makes a loud noise reminding you to take it out

[Anonymous]

yeah i went to a store that had the slot for chip but it wasn't activated or dorm thing because it didn't work at all lol

[Anonymous]

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@lg8302ch wrote:

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@Anonymous wrote:
hopefully we get used to it and it gets faster because 20 seconds just to pay is semi ridiculous lol

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I have been using chip & pin technology for the past 10+ years now and encounter no difference in speed when I swipe a US card or use a European chip & pin card. Only the chip & signature takes  a bit longer because the cashiers are not prepared to get ready to hand over the slip for signature and get confused when they see  chip cards that require signature ....lol

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I think this was discussed in a thread recently, and someone suggested (and I agree), that the chip process feels longer because with a swipe, I swipe and put the card away while the transaction is processing, whereas with chip the card has to stay in the reader and only when done can I put it away (so serial rather than parallel).   Of course, there are plenty of times where the swipe doesn't record correctly, and you have to take the card out again!

[Anonymous]

lol well after the first item is rung up you can swipe any time after that. can you do that with the chip?

[Anonymous]

Hey! I didn't realize when I had some t-shirts printed at a little local shop, that THAT's what was different about their machine. They do it for me, in that they have the machine on their side so I still haven't inserted a card with a chip. But at the time I didn't put two and two together. Now I know.

[cem13]

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@Anonymous wrote:
hopefully we get used to it and it gets faster because 20 seconds just to pay is semi ridiculous lol

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@Anonymous here I think that it was fast the old fashioned way, before debit cards and bar code scanners.  You prayed to get a good "Cash Register Lady".  If she was good, you could get checked out fast with her key-punching all the values manually.  I would pray that every can of soup had a price sticker our my entire day was shot.  It would take several minutes for "Ralph" to walk his slow @Anonymous back to aisle 10 and get the price for a can of chicken noodle.

If the star aligned, it would only take 15 minutes.....tops.  Now that was a good day.

[Anonymous]

lol well good thing it isn't like that anymore

[Anonymous]

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@cem13 wrote:

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@Anonymous wrote:
hopefully we get used to it and it gets faster because 20 seconds just to pay is semi ridiculous lol

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@Anonymous here I think that it was fast the old fashioned way, before debit cards and bar code scanners.  You prayed to get a good "Cash Register Lady".  If she was good, you could get checked out fast with her key-punching all the values manually.  I would pray that every can of soup had a price sticker our my entire day was shot.  It would take several minutes for "Ralph" to walk his slow @Anonymous back to aisle 10 and get the price for a can of chicken noodle.

If the star aligned, it would only take 15 minutes.....tops.  Now that was a good day.

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And here when I read 'the old fashioned way' I thought you were going to talk about a knuckle buster:

[takeshi74]

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@Anonymous wrote:
i just figured since the machines are still technically hybrid then i could still swipe if i wanted

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It would defeat the security benefit of EMV if the terminal allowed the card to be swiped.