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r/AskReddit • u/danielsoft1 • 9h ago
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You never hand your credit card to a waiter or merchant who then takes it away to run it. They bring the device to you which seems much more secure.
169 u/D0ntC4llMeShirley 5h ago America handles card payments like it’s the 1990s 48 u/Ok-Sandwich-364 4h ago I was on an Amtrak Train in 2018 and they still had those carbon copy credit card imprint machines. Felt so weird watching them take a copy of my card and then it took days for the charge to actually show up on my account. 12 u/poorboychevelle 2h ago Those only work if your card still has embossed numbers, feel like my card hasn't had those for well over a decade 6 u/counterfitster 4h ago They finally caught up to the rest of the country by 2022 at least (though I remember them using actual terminals in 2010 too) 3 u/Dundragon3030 3h ago Lack of phone signal on the train tracks means they had to use the older methods. 5 u/jk_arundel 1h ago Yeah but on many airlines I can use my credit card while in flight! 3 u/neverbeenbetter190 3h ago Wow as a tourist I would have loved seeing that in person for the first and only time in my life! 😀
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America handles card payments like it’s the 1990s
48 u/Ok-Sandwich-364 4h ago I was on an Amtrak Train in 2018 and they still had those carbon copy credit card imprint machines. Felt so weird watching them take a copy of my card and then it took days for the charge to actually show up on my account. 12 u/poorboychevelle 2h ago Those only work if your card still has embossed numbers, feel like my card hasn't had those for well over a decade 6 u/counterfitster 4h ago They finally caught up to the rest of the country by 2022 at least (though I remember them using actual terminals in 2010 too) 3 u/Dundragon3030 3h ago Lack of phone signal on the train tracks means they had to use the older methods. 5 u/jk_arundel 1h ago Yeah but on many airlines I can use my credit card while in flight! 3 u/neverbeenbetter190 3h ago Wow as a tourist I would have loved seeing that in person for the first and only time in my life! 😀
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I was on an Amtrak Train in 2018 and they still had those carbon copy credit card imprint machines. Felt so weird watching them take a copy of my card and then it took days for the charge to actually show up on my account.
12 u/poorboychevelle 2h ago Those only work if your card still has embossed numbers, feel like my card hasn't had those for well over a decade 6 u/counterfitster 4h ago They finally caught up to the rest of the country by 2022 at least (though I remember them using actual terminals in 2010 too) 3 u/Dundragon3030 3h ago Lack of phone signal on the train tracks means they had to use the older methods. 5 u/jk_arundel 1h ago Yeah but on many airlines I can use my credit card while in flight! 3 u/neverbeenbetter190 3h ago Wow as a tourist I would have loved seeing that in person for the first and only time in my life! 😀
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Those only work if your card still has embossed numbers, feel like my card hasn't had those for well over a decade
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They finally caught up to the rest of the country by 2022 at least (though I remember them using actual terminals in 2010 too)
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Lack of phone signal on the train tracks means they had to use the older methods.
5 u/jk_arundel 1h ago Yeah but on many airlines I can use my credit card while in flight!
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Yeah but on many airlines I can use my credit card while in flight!
Wow as a tourist I would have loved seeing that in person for the first and only time in my life! 😀
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u/thalassicus 7h ago
You never hand your credit card to a waiter or merchant who then takes it away to run it. They bring the device to you which seems much more secure.