R.S. wrote: >I don't understand. Is it a problem with your card/bank or rather small shops >in the Forest do not have card terminal? I suspect this is limitation of your card. I saw such cards.
>BTW: US is last country where my card were imprinted (embossed), it is >probably also last place on Earth where signature is needed instead of PIN. > (obviously my experience is limited, I haven't visited all the countries on > Earth) I believe the point here was that if you do NOT have a Chip&PIN card, you may find yourself in a situation where you cannot perform a needed transaction because the terminals don’t have magstripe readers. This is well-documented: unattended gas pumps, ticket kiosks, etc. Less common in cities, more common outside them. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
