On 1/3/2016 4:17 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 1/3/2016 7:43 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>
>>
>> As of October 1st, 2015, businesses in the US were supposed to replace
>> their card readers with new ones that take the chipped cards or face
>> bad things happening to them. I got my new reader but haven't
>> connected it yet. It seems like a lot of bother to have to swipe and
>> insert the cards and input a pin. I've been telling folks that I
>> haven't gotten my new reader up a running so a check would be
>> perfectly acceptable but I don't think I can keep that up for long.
>>
>
> Not really. No swipe at all. Insert card. If debit, enter the pin as
> you do now. If credit, just sign if required. It does take a little
> longer though for the chip to be read.

I'll have to get back to you when I figure out my new Ingenico iCT250
reader. The stores I've been to have got new readers but I've never been
asked to insert my card into the reader's slot. I guess they need to
figure out their machines too!