Originally Posted by
Majuki
I was hopeful that this signage outside of a local 99 Ranch would mean that QuickPass might work. Mrs. Majuki tried her card, but she got the "chip not accepted" message similar to when contactless was broken at Safeway. Furthermore, she tried inserting the card, which also didn't work. Finally, she swiped the card, and the transaction went through in debit mode with a PIN, similar to when I have used my card at Safeway. The pending transaction is showing up on the online account.
Wasn't 99 Ranch reported here before as supporting the PBOC chip card?
Also, here are the merchants in the US with PBOC chip card support AND also accept contactless cards of other card networks:
McDonalds
Walgreens
CVS
Thus, they would be good candidates to test QuickPass contactless using the ICBC UnionPay card. Supposedly there are thousands of merchant locations in the US that support QuickPass (I read somewhere 250K claimed), but not clear who & where they are.
Home Depot, USPS, and Walmart have PBOC chip card support but do NOT accept any contactless cards or phones.