Using Mileage plus Explorer Card at vendor that uses impression machine. Possible?
Feb 19, 2015, 3:47 pm
#1
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Join Date: Feb 2011
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Using Mileage plus Explorer Card at vendor that uses impression machine. Possible?
I am renting a car in Costa Rica, and all agencies there require a physical impression of your card (the old school way - carbon paper). I know the numbers on the back of the card are raised, but not much.
Has anybody had experience with this? Can this card be used at an impression machine vendor?
Really need a solution to this since all of my cards went flat, and Chase claims they can't send me an Explorer Card in the old style.
Thank you.
Has anybody had experience with this? Can this card be used at an impression machine vendor?
Really need a solution to this since all of my cards went flat, and Chase claims they can't send me an Explorer Card in the old style.
Thank you.
Feb 19, 2015, 5:22 pm
#2
Join Date: Dec 2014
Posts: 748
I am renting a car in Costa Rica, and all agencies there require a physical impression of your card (the old school way - carbon paper). I know the numbers on the back of the card are raised, but not much.
Has anybody had experience with this? Can this card be used at an impression machine vendor?
Really need a solution to this since all of my cards went flat, and Chase claims they can't send me an Explorer Card in the old style.
Thank you.
Has anybody had experience with this? Can this card be used at an impression machine vendor?
Really need a solution to this since all of my cards went flat, and Chase claims they can't send me an Explorer Card in the old style.
Thank you.
Can you prepay or make a deposit using the same card so they can see the numbers match when you arrive?
Surely they have had another United/Chase member through there before.
Feb 19, 2015, 5:36 pm
#3
Join Date: Jan 2012
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I am renting a car in Costa Rica, and all agencies there require a physical impression of your card (the old school way - carbon paper). I know the numbers on the back of the card are raised, but not much.
Has anybody had experience with this? Can this card be used at an impression machine vendor?
Really need a solution to this since all of my cards went flat, and Chase claims they can't send me an Explorer Card in the old style.
Thank you.
Has anybody had experience with this? Can this card be used at an impression machine vendor?
Really need a solution to this since all of my cards went flat, and Chase claims they can't send me an Explorer Card in the old style.
Thank you.
Feb 19, 2015, 6:39 pm
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Location: Houston, TX, USA
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Hand writing the numbers doesn't prove that the card was present for the transaction, which is what the merchant wants to protect against chargeback. I checked into a hotel once (in the US) that still took an impression of the guarantee card at check-in, and in the case of the UA Chase card, they made a photocopy instead.
Feb 21, 2015, 12:35 am
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I'm happy FTers got their cards to work, so don't take this the wrong way.
However, I would never expect a non-embossed Chase card to work at a merchant w/o a swipe reader. The rule is if the merchant cannot swipe the card and/or cannot key enter the cc#/cvv2 into the electronic terminal, they are to refuse that form of payment.
5 Important Things You Should Know About Unembossed Visa Cards
However, I would never expect a non-embossed Chase card to work at a merchant w/o a swipe reader. The rule is if the merchant cannot swipe the card and/or cannot key enter the cc#/cvv2 into the electronic terminal, they are to refuse that form of payment.
5 Important Things You Should Know About Unembossed Visa Cards