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Sep 6, 2012, 5:27 am

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jamar

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Quote:

Originally Posted by sdsearch

So I try putting in my chip & (offline) PIN MC and get some sort of message (without the word "PIN" in it) from the terminal.

In my experience with my Citi AA chip card and my Chinese chip card, I've gotten errors like "chip error, please swipe" and "no supported EMV application available". So it could be a broken chip or, as you said, it doesn't support the MC credit app.