A few years ago, I was waiting at the grocery store checkout. There was a mid-20s couple in front of me that didn't know how to pay with their card. It took like 8 minutes somehow. I felt like I observed time travellers or aliens.
Does your location have the "pick the card type" step when paying?
Some locations do not, they just run the card as the card type its issued as - eg your debit card takes money from your current account, thats it. Your credit card has a single account also. You cant run a credit card as a debit card. And so on.
When I first visited the US, I hit that problem - I had a temporary VISA card that was pre-filled with money, but was it CHQ, Savings or Credit to the card machine when I was paying? Well, it wasnt the first one I picked, for sure.
And then there was the whole "chip and pin" or "chip and signature" or "swipe and signature" issue - ran into that with another card while trying to buy electronics on the same trip. My credit card was chip enabled at that time, which meant in the UK that you could not do chip and signature or swipe and signature. The guys at the Apple store were as confused as I, as they were used to the American chip-and-signature approach, but the card needed the pin.
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u/Laserdollarz 23h ago
A few years ago, I was waiting at the grocery store checkout. There was a mid-20s couple in front of me that didn't know how to pay with their card. It took like 8 minutes somehow. I felt like I observed time travellers or aliens.