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You want to go where?
and where is this thread?
I have never had a merchant refuse a magnetic strip card and I travel all over the world. Sometimes I have needed to remind them how to use a magnetic strip card, but never had it rejected, if I showed them where the slide strip was on their hand-held doohickey.
The thread is here in flyertalk...emv cards in the USA and the information is scattered in other threads.
Try using a non chipped card at Schiphol Airport to buy a Dutch railroad ticket; as a matter of fact, it is reported although I haven't encountered it that it is getting more difficult to use a non chipped card anywhere in Holland unless it is a place that caters to tourists.
Most of my travel, I will admit it, is confined to the UK and France and I too have not run into a problem for the most part but people who have visited Vancouver somewhere here have reported going to McDonald's and not being able to use one of the archaic American credit cards.