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Old Jan 22, 2014 | 11:40 pm
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Wise-Broccoli8301
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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...
CSP's numbers are still a bit raised but I don't know if it will work for those purposes. Now that you bring up raised numbers, I remember back in 2008 or so a store's CC machine was not working one morning and I bought $200 worth of product. I never saw the charge show up for months and months. 3 months, 6 months... people told me to cancel the card already. Still nothing. Ten and a half months later... bam. I almost forgot about that charge!
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