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Old Aug 3, 2019 | 2:39 pm
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Originally Posted by mrcardnet
Confirmed FAIL. Tested just for curiosity to see if I could buy a money order. Clerk said card was rejected. It didn't give me chance to enter a PIN, & since they support PBOC chip, there was also no opportunity to swipe & get the debit fallback mode.

No ICBC phone call & I used the card elsewhere without issues after this.
Thanks for the data point. I imagine that it would quit working when they moved to support PBOCCARD. The only MS opportunities it seems now would be at grocery stores that don't support PBOCCARD and require a swipe. (Still not scalable.)
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