Originally Posted by
Majuki
That's all any of us really want. We want to make sure our card will work 100% of the time when we use it. Most people to this day don't have any problems with magstripe only cards even overseas. Fewer people encounter unmanned kiosks that require offline PIN capability. Even fewer encounter merchants that balk at a signature purchase on an EMV card. Perhaps we could define some terminology
You forgot the most basic of all fallbacks: carbon copy imprints!
Still is being done to this date; when I ordered pizza at my hotel in Montreal few weeks ago, the delivery guy brought the old imprinter and did the ol' clap-clap of my card upon delivery!
I have absolutely no idea how that'll be done with cards that don't have raised numbers though.