Originally Posted by
zyxlsy
Maybe for the 2% cashback??? I'm for that to be honest, and the C+P of course.
However, at a Osaka Shinkansen kiosk requiring passwords, A+ didn't work, but my Amex SPG worked when I keyed in a password that even I wasn't sure was correct or not... But it just worked, and the transaction did not appear as cash advance like I feared.
You can get a PIN for an SPG card? That's cool.
Or are you sure you set one? Maybe it'll take anything if the card is really chip and sig?
I know, years ago, the only way I could get a bike from Paris Velib was to use an Amex because they didn't have chip yet, so the system had to fall back to the magnetic strip (couldn't do it with Visa because they required a chip for Visa). Maybe this is a similar security fallback?