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Originally Posted by wolfy35
Sorry to have to correct you there Andy but unfortunately I have to.
The only way that UK retailers are allowed to accept a credit card outside the chip and pin system now in use is if it is a foreign card that does not have a chip.
Any retailer that accepts a UK card without the chip will not have the payment honoured by the banking system. So it is not retailers being lazy it is the banks refusing to process non chip cards. For the first 2 years the chip and pin system was optional but that ended somewhere around 18 months ago.
Mail order processing still accept as before but systems are already in place ready to provide chip readers on a trial basis for home use. Expect this to become compulsory if the trial is successful
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Well, what Andy was trying to say, I am from America and was trying to use American credit card which is quite foreign to England. And my credit card was NOT accepted in quite a few places on my last stay in England.