Credit card warning

Buddy Burden barefootcoder at gmail.com
Thu Jun 6 14:36:51 PDT 2013


Darren,

> I've heard this said a number of times in the past, but I think the above
notion is either outdated or region-specific now.
> :
> :
> But cards getting out of the customer's sight?  Maybe in the past.  But
with the advent of chip cards which by necessity require the customer to
enter a pin for them to be used, the customer has to be at the terminal for
the transaction, and chip cards have basically replaced all the cards by
now, so having the waiter taking the card out of sight is in the past.

Where do you live?  I'm pretty sure I can honeslty say I've _never_ run my
card myself at a restaurant or bar.  At some retail stores or grocery
stores, I run it myself, but I'd say more often than not they take my card,
run it for me (although, granted, within my sight), then I enter either a
signature or PIN on a separate terminal.

Certainly my card left my sight every time I ate out here in Austin.  If
they want to skim it, let them.  My bank just recently cancelled my card
over $1.17 charge, which I'm sure was something exactly like what Peter
described.  So it's not bugging me, other than the inconvenience of having
to physically visit the bank to get the replacement card.


            -- Buddy
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