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Old Dec 31, 2015, 9:36 pm
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Originally Posted by AllieKat
Say WHAT??? Look at this again in the morning, LOL. It's all, of course, completely wrong.
My experience has been with American debit cards that have online pins on the credit network, but no offline pins. So, an offline POS, being unable to verify the PIN via chip, forces a signature. You could try explaining why that isn't so if you'd like.
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