Update: How to beat the chip and PIN credit card requirement?
When John Brownlee, expatriate American and co-captain of the Consumerist.com ship, isn’t discussing how my building’s current lack of hot water affects my privates, he’s offering helpful advice and a platform for people who’ve been wronged by lousy customer service.
Via e-mail, he suggests this potential workaround to chip-and-PIN requirements for non-European credit card holders. He verifies that this trick works in Ireland:
I don’t know if this will work in Denmark, but what I used to do (when I lost my pin) was plug it in and just wait. After about twenty seconds of you not doing anything, a receipt is automatically printed out.
Obviously this won’t work at self-service gas stations or train ticket vending machines, but it’s worth a shot if you encounter a clerk who’s unwilling/unable/untrained to print out a swipe-and-sign receipt.
Whether you want to stand there and wait 20 seconds, doing nothing, when people are waiting behind you is a another matter.
Related:
- Rotten in Denmark: Credit cards with mandatory PIN
- We prefer Visa cards, just not yours
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October 6th, 2006 at 12:11 pm |
I doubt this will work if you don’t have a chip on your card, which none of my US cards do.
Last few times I’ve been in the UK I had no trouble. Once they realise the card doesn’t have a chip, they just print a receipt to sign.
(I’m a brit living in the USA)
January 5th, 2007 at 9:28 am |
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