Has The Whole World Gone Blind?
@danishcanadian (28953)
Canada
April 22, 2012 6:51pm CST
The newest technology in credit cards is the chip and pin technology. I still have an older credit card that is not going to expire for a couple of years, so there is no chip on it, but there is the old hologram. I am legally blind, and I can see the difference between a chip and a hologram. My ATM card has a chip in it, my credit cards do not. Tonight the cabbie, and the lady at the McDonalds drive through both tried to get their reader to read my friggen hologram, and then complained when it didn't work. Had they just swipped it the old way, it would have worked.
I know people are used to the chips on 99% of the cards they use, but are people so stuck in their ways that they can't look a little closer at something, when it fails to do what they want it to do the first time? Has the world gone nuts?
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@BarBaraPrz (47274)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
23 Apr 12
The world has gone nuts, of course, but I don't think this is proof of it. It just means we are quick to adapt to new technology and ways of doing things. I still come across a lot of stores that have a little handwritten sign taped to their card reader that says "No chip reader" and clerks who ask if my card has a chip even as I am showing it (the chip) to them.
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
28 Apr 12
There is a Dollar Store in our city that you can only pay by cash or by debit card. I do not like carrying cash around me if I an help it and do not like paying by debit, because what happens is that something may come up, and you might need the money from your bank account for something else. So I try to avoid those stores. I feel they are for the ones who have to really watch their credit, or do not make enough money to get anything but a secured credit card or who do not have enough pension income.
@KrauseHome (36448)
• United States
16 Jun 12
Personally the problem can be with Technology, and when they start updating something everyone seems to think everyone should know that, or everything should be able to do it that way. They need to still remember that not everything changes the way they would want it too. If they would have thought of trying it the old way there would not have been the issues. So people many times just need to SLOW DOWN and realize not everyone and everything will always be on the same page.
@GardenGerty (160626)
• United States
23 Apr 12
Common sense is never too common. I wonder if that is what has been wrong with the people ahead of me at Wal Mart lately. I know it seems to take forever for them to get their transactions through.
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@wilsongoddard (7291)
• United States
30 Apr 12
That is less a failing of sight than of common sense. Should there ever be some great crisis, these are the people who will almost certainly be unable to navigate their ways out of it.
@bjc66bjc (6730)
• United States
23 Apr 12
Hi danishcanadian, its not blindness it a lack of patience
that people have..everyone want to move fast and looking for
the quick way to do things...people just don't want to take
time for others to take the time to help them with the cards
prpperly....
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
28 Apr 12
What bugs me is that when I use my old card, and I am under a certain amount, they want me to use pay pass but when I have my new card with the chip in it, even though it is under50, they still want me to insert it. There was only one case recently where the salesperson said I could just use pay pass, but there were other times when that would be possible.
I did not recall a sign over the counter saying, "if you have the card without the chip, you can use pay pass, but if you have the card with the chip in it, you cannot."
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
23 Apr 12
I have the new chip cards and the old holograph cards that have not expired yet and will not be for a year or so. I have no problem except with those stores that have not converted yet because really I hate signing my signature for them. What bothers me is that because I am close to my seventies, even though I look younger, that the saleslady assumes that I am gong to pay with a debit card because the lady in front of me's husband did not leave her much so now she has only the Old Age Security. Then what happens is that she, the saleslady, starts to treat it as a debit card and tells me to swipe and then when I tell her it is a Mastercard, she looks as if some fantastic revelation overcame her.
She could have asked first or looked at it.
