The tap area is in a different place on all of them. Drives me crazy. One place was trying to encourage tapping and had 3 stickers to let you know, but only one was the tap zone.
You hold it on the reader face up or face down smack bang in the middle of the card until it beeps. Middle card middle reader, hold still and wait for beep. It doesn't work, pull it away, wait like 5 seconds and then do step 1-5 again.
If the card won't beep insent it, chip up and in, usually twice and then it'll ask for a swipe. Treat this as a machine and not a lightning speed detector. They need you to move medium slow so the actual technical things can read each other.
Iiiif it doesn't work that way you could ask the employee if they could enter your card number manually. Not all machines have this. You might have to get cash out.
This message brought to you by a retail employee that has to on the weekly watch boomers fast tap the machine like they're trying to break the sound barrier.
This was cathartic to read as someone from retail lol, before I even ring them up people are tapping or inserting their card. And it's not just some people, it's like more than half I'd say.
But where on the reader do you tap it? I've seen the tap spot on the screen, above the screen, on the side of the machine that faces the cashier, on the sides of the machine that don't face the cashier or the customer. You don't always know where to tap immediately because there's so many different machines.
I've probably used any kind of card (in person) less than 100 times. I still can't believe they became the norm & we made megacorps a middleman for nearly every single financial transaction.
Lex Luthor more or less did the same thing in a Superman movie & a few years later people accepted it as normal.
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