• 9point6@lemmy.world
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      15 hours ago

      Do you guys still do the hilarious chip & sign thing or have you finally switched to using a PIN?

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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        4 hours ago

        We just do chip, no sign unless it’s over some threshold (must be pretty high since I’ve spent nearly $1k at a single Costco trip). I’ve never used a PIN on a credit card, and I haven’t needed so sign anything in years unless it’s a contract of sorts.

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        13 hours ago

        You think that’s hilarious? There are a lot of places in the world that still do a manual shhk-shhk of a card only a few years ago. Now that most cards don’t have raised digits, they’ll write it down. If they even take a card.

        Places where the Internet goes down if it rains and there is no mobile service. Imagine the horror.

        The other side of the coin - paying with debit (which has a pin) is stupid in the US. Unless you can’t control your spending, credit card is the way to go for every legal purchase you don’t mind being tied to you forever. CCs have far superior consumer protection than the law.