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Old Mar 1, 2019, 2:54 pm
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tmiw
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Today I went to lunch with a group from work at an Italian restaurant. The person who was paying tried to use his Citi corporate card (PIN preferring) and it apparently kept declining without even asking for the PIN. The good news is that from what I could tell from the server, PIN preferring cards aren't completely unheard of (they just have people go to the front to enter it instead of trying to bypass it). They looked to be using a FD130 when I looked at the front counter/host area on the way out.

Anyway, I wonder if it's a combination of First Data terminals now exhibiting Quick Chip behavior (though I don't know for sure if this one did) and simply not having used the card as EMV until now. I would have expected the PIN CVM to be skipped and signature asked for until the PIN's finally pushed to the card.
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