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Old Jan 22, 2014 | 12:16 am
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LoneTree
 
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Originally Posted by MDtR-Chicago
One situation would be if there is a power or telecom outage. Occasionally I've encountered a situation where a merchant will want to take the physical imprint of the card numbers - just like as if it were 30 years ago. If you don't have those raised numbers, that's not going to work...
This happened to me during a hurricane. All telecoms/ATMs knocked out, so had to pay hotel bill with an imprinter.
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