Credit card imprinter(en.wikipedia.org)

16 pointsby tosh9 bulan yang lalu7 comments

en.wikipedia.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_card_imprinter

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chiph9 bulan yang lalu

None of the cards I have today have embossed numbers on them. Which I like as they don't leave an imprint on my wallet's leather. But to use one back in 1995 the clerk would have to hand-write all the numbers and expiration date[0] on the credit slip. A process that is fraught with error.

[0] After looking it up in the booklet of known bad cards that was mailed to the store, or calling their card processor's phone number to check.

Spagbol9 bulan yang lalu

I visited Nunavut in 2019 as a researcher, the town I was in still used these at some places. Being born after their widespread use I had no idea what it was

jgalt2129 bulan yang lalu

These lasted much longer than the paper Warning Bulletins.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/w/warning-bulletin.asp

unnamed76ri9 bulan yang lalu

Something I had to use occasionally in my retail days when our credit card system would go down. Weird to see it written about in historic terms.

semiquaver9 bulan yang lalu

The last time I personally witnessed one of these being used was on an Amtrak train in approximately 2006.

polivier9 bulan yang lalu

I remember this from a taxi ride in the early 2000s. Even then they were pretty rare.

rorylaitila9 bulan yang lalu

If I remember correctly, up through 2008 even, we would punch the card into the terminal for authorization, use the imprinter to have the customer sign and track the number, and then had to phone call the processor to capture the cards at the end of the day.