Post your receipt of your 1st EMV based transaction in the US
May 3, 2014, 2:24 am
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WM near Pearl City (Oahu) Sunday accepted my AMEX. In fact the mag strip option was disabled which threw me off.
Also saw one at the downtown Costco. Tried several insertions, but no luck.
WM near Pearl City (Oahu) Sunday accepted my AMEX. In fact the mag strip option was disabled which threw me off.
Also saw one at the downtown Costco. Tried several insertions, but no luck.
May 3, 2014, 6:00 am
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WM near Pearl City (Oahu) Sunday accepted my AMEX. In fact the mag strip option was disabled which threw me off.
Also saw one at the downtown Costco. Tried several insertions, but no luck.
WM near Pearl City (Oahu) Sunday accepted my AMEX. In fact the mag strip option was disabled which threw me off.
Also saw one at the downtown Costco. Tried several insertions, but no luck.
The magstripe reader wasn't disabled at your Wal-Mart, BTW, if EMV is enabled you can't swipe an EMV card. If you could, EMV would be utterly pointless.
May 3, 2014, 4:42 pm
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WM near Pearl City (Oahu) Sunday accepted my AMEX. In fact the mag strip option was disabled which threw me off.
WM near Pearl City (Oahu) Sunday accepted my AMEX. In fact the mag strip option was disabled which threw me off.
May 3, 2014, 5:16 pm
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Added it to the map over at http://emvacceptedhere.com/ (I think. There was only one in Pearl City according to Google, at least.)
May 3, 2014, 5:17 pm
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BTW, anyone can add new entries to the map as well.
May 3, 2014, 8:38 pm
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May 4, 2014, 10:33 pm
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P.S. I was back at Walmart in Helena today, so I can confirm this wasn't a fluke - it's much, much faster than in Missoula.
Missoula it's honestly pretty darn slow. Not unbearable, but... like dial-up card processing is, ya know? In Helena it's lightning fast - the fastest I've seen EMV run, just a few seconds.
Wonder why they're different?
Missoula it's honestly pretty darn slow. Not unbearable, but... like dial-up card processing is, ya know? In Helena it's lightning fast - the fastest I've seen EMV run, just a few seconds.
Wonder why they're different?
May 4, 2014, 10:36 pm
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Another liquor store by my house looked like they had a terminal with EMV support (and a contactless reader), but the clerk took my card and swiped it himself with another terminal.
Also, one of my local Costco stores didn't have EMV. Honestly, though, I expect Costco to be one of the last holdouts. They pretty much know where you live by virtue of needing to be a member, so why commit credit card fraud there?
Also, one of my local Costco stores didn't have EMV. Honestly, though, I expect Costco to be one of the last holdouts. They pretty much know where you live by virtue of needing to be a member, so why commit credit card fraud there?
May 4, 2014, 10:45 pm
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Another liquor store by my house looked like they had a terminal with EMV support (and a contactless reader), but the clerk took my card and swiped it himself with another terminal.
Also, one of my local Costco stores didn't have EMV. Honestly, though, I expect Costco to be one of the last holdouts. They pretty much know where you live by virtue of needing to be a member, so why commit credit card fraud there?
Also, one of my local Costco stores didn't have EMV. Honestly, though, I expect Costco to be one of the last holdouts. They pretty much know where you live by virtue of needing to be a member, so why commit credit card fraud there?
You're right in that no one would USE stolen data at Costco, but I think Target made places like Costco wake up and realise that being liable for the use of stolen cards is only half the battle, not, yourself, being the SOURCE of counterfeit cards matters too.
May 4, 2014, 10:48 pm
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In my experience, very few people use credit cards at Costco, and many of them are using the Costco-branded Amex. They don't take Visa or Mastercard, which are by far the most common, so the majority of shoppers use cash or debit anyway.
May 4, 2014, 10:59 pm
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