I have a chip bank card and my chip is starting to wiggle loose! Oh dear!
I'm going to try and go to my bank and order a new card soon.
Why bother telling you this?
If this should happen to you, your card may not be able to make purchases because the machine cannot read your chip since it's on the brink of falling out of your card. Even if you wipe it on your shirt sleeves a few times...trust me - I've done it a few times.
With that said, the magnetic stripe is still available to swipe but you need to provide identification AND your Finnish Social Security ID #.
Thankfully I've been carrying a larger purse and have my Passport and my Kela card in there...my Passport does not show my Finnish Social Security ID # - but my Kela card does.
So that's what I have had to provide the last 3 times I've made purchases downtown at the grocery store.
The cashier will write down your ID# on the receipt and then you sign it, like you would for a swiped card purchase.
FYI - hope this helps.
I'm going to try and go to my bank and order a new card soon.
Why bother telling you this?
If this should happen to you, your card may not be able to make purchases because the machine cannot read your chip since it's on the brink of falling out of your card. Even if you wipe it on your shirt sleeves a few times...trust me - I've done it a few times.
With that said, the magnetic stripe is still available to swipe but you need to provide identification AND your Finnish Social Security ID #.
Thankfully I've been carrying a larger purse and have my Passport and my Kela card in there...my Passport does not show my Finnish Social Security ID # - but my Kela card does.
So that's what I have had to provide the last 3 times I've made purchases downtown at the grocery store.
The cashier will write down your ID# on the receipt and then you sign it, like you would for a swiped card purchase.
FYI - hope this helps.
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