(11-09-2018, 03:42 AM)Nortoon_imp Wrote: Its windy night at 30C below and I want to top up my car for the week.
I remove my glove and insert my points card that saves me 10 cents a liter, and wait and wait.
Remove the card quickly it flashes and I do so, and put it in my wallet.
Draw out my credit card and try to tap it.
Long pause and the pump flashes to insert it. I do so and wait.
Long pause and it flashes do I want a car wash.
At 30C below. I don't think so. Push the button an wait.
It flashes enter your pin, which I do.
Long pause until it flashes for me to remove my card.
Which I do, and it immediately starts loudly beeping at me to lift the handle and select grade of gas I need. Could I put my card and wallet away first you noisy slow thinking tin moron?
Pump my gas and put the handle back.
The screen reads you have selected a printed receipt.
Yup I want it, and I wait and wait.
It finely rolls out a foot of paper flapping in the cold wind which I tear off with my frozen hand.

(11-09-2018, 10:07 AM)LongRanger_imp Wrote: Yep. The difference is that U.S. credit card issuers turned down the opportunity to support Chip & Pin technology, unlike Canada, the EU, and Asia. Instead, our cards use Chip & Signature. The reason? They didn't think the U.S. consumer would be able to remember a 4-digit PIN. That aside, gas pumps in the U.S. are not yet required to read and accept Chip cards, so they're still relying on the magnetic strip for authentication, which is fraught with security issues. For Cormanus and other visitors, you're probably better off using a debit card at the pump.

(11-09-2018, 10:07 AM)LongRanger_imp Wrote: Yep. The difference is that U.S. credit card issuers turned down the opportunity to support Chip & Pin technology, unlike Canada, the EU, and Asia. Instead, our cards use Chip & Signature. The reason? They didn't think the U.S. consumer would be able to remember a 4-digit PIN. That aside, gas pumps in the U.S. are not yet required to read and accept Chip cards, so they're still relying on the magnetic strip for authentication, which is fraught with security issues. For Cormanus and other visitors, you're probably better off using a debit card at the pump.

(11-09-2018, 09:25 AM)GoldOxide_imp Wrote: Eh - an us visiting the U.S. of A from Down Under or the Great White have postal codes (vs. zip codes). None of the pumps I have visited understand that. So the station clerk just says, "... uh, Canada? Yeah, sorry, no problem, just a sec, ... ok ... the pump good - go pump. Sorry again for that."

The experience is a bit klunky. I understand the crime preventative nature, but in Canada we simply enter a PIN code at the pump (or wave the card in other cases).

(11-09-2018, 03:42 AM)Nortoon_imp Wrote: Its windy night at 30C below and I want to top up my car for the week.
I remove my glove and insert my points card that saves me 10 cents a liter, and wait and wait.
Remove the card quickly it flashes and I do so, and put it in my wallet.
Draw out my credit card and try to tap it.
Long pause and the pump flashes to insert it. I do so and wait.
Long pause and it flashes do I want a car wash.
At 30C below. I don't think so. Push the button an wait.
It flashes enter your pin, which I do.
Long pause until it flashes for me to remove my card.
Which I do, and it immediately starts loudly beeping at me to lift the handle and select grade of gas I need. Could I put my card and wallet away first you noisy slow thinking tin moron?
Pump my gas and put the handle back.
The screen reads you have selected a printed receipt.
Yup I want it, and I wait and wait.
It finely rolls out a foot of paper flapping in the cold wind which I tear off with my frozen hand.

What? The pump didn't run out of paper? You actually got paper!
-30C already in the Oh? Come on ... yer not that far north, and it's only November. ;D