did you get one of the new "chip and PIN" cards? My default card (CIBC Visa) was set to expire, and they sent me a new one, complete with chip, and messages about call this 866 number to validate. Which I duly did, only later realising that I'd just de-validated the old (6wks left to go) plastic. And I didn't have the PIN for this new card.
So I was without the default card for a weekend - the password came in a different mailer, and I 'meejutly went to a CIBC ATM and changed it to something I would remember.
I've used it several times since, but nearly all merchants hereabouts are still on the print-up-a-slip-and-sign-it system, I've not been asked to key in the PIN yet. Though a friend of mine who's just back from a couple of weeks in France & the UK, with his VISA, and said that's all they do in Europe - he didn't sign anything once.
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Ah, what would we do without plastic money?
Date: 2009-04-16 05:31 pm (UTC)So I was without the default card for a weekend - the password came in a different mailer, and I 'meejutly went to a CIBC ATM and changed it to something I would remember.
I've used it several times since, but nearly all merchants hereabouts are still on the print-up-a-slip-and-sign-it system, I've not been asked to key in the PIN yet. Though a friend of mine who's just back from a couple of weeks in France & the UK, with his VISA, and said that's all they do in Europe - he didn't sign anything once.