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Old Apr 29, 2017 | 5:27 pm
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Originally Posted by Tyler2017
In Taiwan, at least, I have seen that if a store accepts credit cards, the terminal is usually mounted towards the cashier with a very short cord (almost all use the VX520 without any customer facing stuff including Costco there, believe it or not). How are people going to enter their PIN's with this kind of setup? I think this is a problem.
My point was that it likely wouldn't be a problem even if US cards were PIN-preferring because there's a good possibility that the terminals in Taiwan would explicitly have PIN disabled--or at least have only online PIN disabled anyway. I'm not even sure UnionPay supports offline PIN at all, actually.
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