The Heir's just about had it with card chip readers. Over 50% of the time he puts his card into the chip slot at the shops, it gets rejected with an Input Canceled error. The system wants to blame his card, and by extension, -him- for the failure, instead of the system taking responsibility for largely defective card chip readers. His card is only 2-3 years old, hardly enough for the chip to just fail in his card, so he's not going to bother getting a reissue, since he's 90% sure that the reissue will fail as well. He ends up having to use the strip anyway, even with all the largely unsubstantiated rumors of it somehow not being safe. The fact is, he's had some kind of card for 35-40 years and he's -never- had a personal instance where he got ripped off because he was using the stripe. He's always looked at his balance, and it was always correct. He thinks it's the spendthrifties that were the biggest victim 20 years ago, and he doesn't think it was the strip but rather the fact that Target at the time insisted on using touchscreens for people to type their PINs into, making it impossible to cover up what you're typing while also making sure your PIN was correct. They eventually replaced these with actual number pads. So say what you will about how "great" card chips are and how "terrible" card strips are, the Heir's going to go with what works, the least resistance, because the supposed greatness of card chips is yet another unchallenged claim in which the end user who always gets blamed for a bad chip doesn't get their equal time. Like big tech trying to tell people that one thing shall replace another, it's just a marketing campaign, and not the actual truth of things.