Originally Posted by
invisible
This is what bothers me - all my cards are chip based. Last year I had several cases in Starbucks and Target when I tried to use chip card at the terminal where chip reader was disabled or non-operating. So when swiping, terminal was saying 'insert card' - catch22, basically card was unusable.
Now, seems that if terminal has chip function disabled then even MST mode will be no help.
That won't be an issue. They're not really referring to chip slots, their referring to terminals where the whole card gets sucked put into the slot (Like a gas pump or ATM) as the magnetic stripe reader doesn't active until it actually has a card pushed into it.