What is it with people giving me the stink-eye at work when our debit machine won’t read their card, even though it looks like it’s been through the wash three times and chewed up by a dog to boot? Either accept that as long as your card is worn out some machines won’t be able to read it, or pick up the phone to make that 20 second call to the bank to tell them to send you a shiny new one. —RJ
This article appears in Jan 20-26, 2011.
When the card does not work in the machine – KEY in the numbers and then your PIN……problem solved.
♫ a whine, whine here, a whine, whine there ♫
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoI_u97kdEg
Play this on your store sound system.
that was a hoot miss kimmy, the kid was irritating either way
There was a regular that would come into the drug store I worked at and all he had was a sliver for a debit…like all he had was the black strip!
I know what you mean…Caillou made me feel the same way.
And, for some reason, I couldn’t stand Haley Joel Osment…don’t why, but he irritated me.
http://www.teenidols4you.com/blink/Actors/…
Probably due to him being cast in crappy movies. 😛
Actually, some debit machines don’t let you key in the numbers, koda, they just let you key in the visa.
http://randomoverload.com/wp-content/uploa…
No debit machine let’s you type in the numbers do they? I have never seen this done ever!
Kim – I hate that little whiney frigger Caillou! My little guy will never watch him.
that seems to be a popular consensus.
no mother I know likes him either….
every episode is him asking and asking and then the parents just give in every time.
it’s like it’s teaching the kid that his parents are there at every beckon call.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn6XfTk-ouY
Transformers is back on the cartoon channel. It’s only on once a week and is nothing like the original…but it’s now in the DVR mix with Batman, avengers, Wolverine and Scooby Doo.
Don’t forget about Heman.
I had a prof once we used to refer to as “Skeletor.”
I have keyed in my number many times and have the number memorized from online banking. Try it….never failed me yet!
Card Number + OK + PIN + OK + Thank You to the Cashier!
really Koda? For a debit card? I know you can for a credit card but I had no idea!
Look where technology has taken us….what will they think of next!
you just smile and say,” that’s too fucking bad”.
if someone has trouble, because of their fucked up card, then that is no fault of your own. and yes people, if you put that lil car in your pocky with coins and shit, it wears the strip down hard. it also demagnetizes the info on it too.
putting it anywhere there is a magnet has the same effect, just like a video tape, remember them, it doesn’t compleytely wipe it, but after awhile, fucks the reader part of the atm up. had it happen to me already, so i know better now.
aah but wait soon will have dna scanners, like a philip k dick novel http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_lUu92QY0YZo/TOvV…
Excellent book painy, I liked it 😉
OB, sometimes wrapping the card in a layer of light plastic helps, don’t know why but it it works.
…and for any one who didn’t know, that book was the basis for bladerunner
And knowing is half the battle. LOL.
The first commenter explained it. Have the customer KEY in numbers and then their PIN. Or is that too complicated for a cashier to explain?
I’ve worked with debit machines a lot, and not all of them are you able to key it in, sorry. It could be a liability too without a card with a signature on the back. Seriously, get a new fucking card, it take about 20 seconds like OB said.
Where I work you can’t enter a debit card number manually, only credit cards. It’s the same way with most places.