Originally Posted by
Karen2
Big shock for us when we took Caltrain and BART to SFO: our nice new credit cards to use in Europe (with the chip) were not accepted by either body's machines.
This makes no sense. The Mag stripe on the card is exactly the same regardless of whether it's a chip-n-pin or not. Have you used the card elsewhere? Are you sure it's not just a defective card?