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  • Mrs_Ryan
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    think there are some of the old manual machines about, i paid for some drinks in our local cinema about 6 months ago and their terminal was broken so they used one of those. i have a supposedly online debit card but it went through fine a few days later.
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  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    Mrs_Ryan wrote: »
    think there are some of the old manual machines about, i paid for some drinks in our local cinema about 6 months ago and their terminal was broken so they used one of those. i have a supposedly online debit card but it went through fine a few days later.

    I'd be careful with this and check your statements regularly, for the next twelve months or so. Most merchant processors have stopped accepting manual sales slips and it was a notorious source of information for credit card fraud.
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
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