Paisley said:
Maybe that's why they prefer to actually take the card. I don't know how rules are now but in the '90s Best Buy would not take an unsigned credit card at all because there was some legal loophole that the card was technicaly not valid until signed and the company got burned enough times not getting paid because of it. As a cashier that rule made my life miserable.
Yeah, the official agreements most vendors have with the credit card company says that if someone presents an unsigned card, the cashier is supposed to ask for ID, then hand the card back to the customer to make them sign it, then compare the signatures.
If the customer refuses to sign it, then the vendor is, according to contract, not supposed to take the card as payment.
Also, anyone who doesn't sign the card or who has written "See ID" on the back is actually violating the agreement that THEY have with the credit card company.
Obviously, none of this usually happens, because people somehow are silly enough to think that checking for ID is going to protect their identity or something, which is an absolutely ridiculous thing to consider.
Chip and pin solves ALL of this, and it's about time this country got with it.
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