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Spent 3 years tapping my card wrong at the terminal in Chicago
Every single gas station and grocery store, I'd tap my card flat on the reader. It worked sometimes. Mostly I'd have to swipe or insert. Last week a cashier at a 7-Eleven turned the terminal sideways and said, 'you gotta tap the top edge, not the face.' Tried it. Worked every time since. All those beeps and errors for nothing. Anyone else been doing this wrong?
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piperbailey4d ago
Man, that is exactly the kind of thing that makes you want to scream into the void. I did the same thing for like two years at the self checkout at the grocery store near me. I always tapped the screen part flat and it would just flash red at me. Then one day this old guy behind me leaned over and said 'put the card on its side, like a book on a shelf.' Total game changer. It's wild how nobody anywhere tells you this. The machines just expect you to know some secret handshake or something. Now i only mess it up when i'm holding the card wrong in my other hand.
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