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Originally Posted by John F
I did have one experience when the merchants "connection" went down, and they still took the credit card (this was relatively recent, and I think they still had one of those mechanical devices that slides and makes an imprint.)
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A food delivery guy showed up at my door a few months back with a mechanical imprinter and some NCR credit card slips. Felt like I was in a time warp.
I've occasionally run into businesses who were utterly unprepared for losing connectivity and had no backup plan. THAT is just wrong and infuriating, and no way to run a business of any size.
I was at an outdoor event recently with a lot of food carts and small independent vendor booths. The few vendors who didn't take physical cards all took various electronic payments, like Zelle, Venmo or Paypal, so it amounted to the same thing for just about anyone with a mobile device. Of course, they all took cash as well....