"Press Cancel when asked to enter your PIN."

When I use my debit/Visa check card at a retailer, there is a common thing that I considered a bug: It prompts me to enter my PIN and there is often no clear way — I have to ask the attendant — to perform the transaction as a Visa check card purchase. Well, apparently, the retailers prefer that I use debit — and they make it non-obvious how to use Visa.

http://clarkhoward.com/shownotes/2007/01/19/#debit

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