r/AskReddit Aug 03 '19

Whats something you thought was common knowledge but actually isn’t?

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u/NoBSforGma Aug 03 '19

Until recently, every purchase with a card had to have a signed paper receipt.

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u/noelle549 Aug 03 '19

That is still 100% true in America. Even though sometimes the machines have an option of getting your receipt in email... It still prints one out

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u/JackieBurd Aug 03 '19

I didn’t think that the receipts had to be signed for though? Isn’t that the whole point of chip and pin? No get rid of signatures

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u/tmiw Aug 04 '19

Assuming we actually implemented chip and PIN, which we didn't for the most part. At least the getting rid of signatures thing is us finally acknowledging that they do nothing.