Originally Posted by
ketelone
1) 2 SMGC failed in 3 repeated swipes in local grocery albertsons where nothing ever failed before. The cards run fine with pin to buy groceries in regular checkout pinpad.
2) bought 2 metabank at the albertsons and they failed too. POS system update?
Also SMGC balance website not working intermittent
Just wanted to add that both the repeat failures SMGC cards (2 cards) finally ended up working without a hitch (on 1st try) at a walmart and a grocery store. the 2 metabank cards that kept failing also went fine on first try.
One coincidence is when the SMGC cards fail, sometimes the online balance website errors out too and only have to call to check balance. some special network issues? random ? who knows. Just keep backup guys.