What NOT to before leaving

cyberhippie · Jan 5th, 2007, 02:04

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Some Indian ATM's don't tell you how to have the card turned on insertion. Some don't tell you that you are to insert it and then withdraw it to start the procedure; some just keep the card inside, not allowing you to withdraw it until you make the correct next move. Fortunately, I hade more than one to choose from, after having one invalidated, supposedly because of my not entering the correct PIN code. I hadn't even entered one, just removed the card and inserted it turned about because of not getting the expected response. Fortunately again, I not only managed to get it right, but remembered how to do it on subsequent efforts.
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Brilliant post lugbert
ATMs vary acroos the world but a few in India had me puzzled, nice one!!

Nick-H · Jan 5th, 2007, 11:12

My first encounter with the ones where you insert it and withdraw it again straight away had me completely foxed.

The guy next in the queue had to show me.

gregornot · Jan 6th, 2007, 16:37

Namaste
Arrived OK, we are fine just jet lag
Will post after some more sleep
Bye, gregor

Nick-H · Jan 6th, 2007, 18:14

Great... Welcome

Suggest you start a new thread for your experiences here...

Digital Drifter · Jan 6th, 2007, 20:33

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Originally Posted by Nick-H

My first encounter with the ones where you insert it and withdraw it again straight away had me completely foxed.

The guy next in the queue had to show me.

Being uncharitable, I'd say, IF YOU READ what's on the screen, it tells you exactly that!

So the screen says, please dip your card and remove to proceed while you go chatting on the mobile and then claim to be stumped.

gnaanna!

I wish there were ATMs with disembodied voices going

'Listen Doofus, do as I say or I'll chew your card!"

Nick-H · Jan 6th, 2007, 21:43

Uncharitable Man!

Actually, i don't think the instructions were clear, but it's a while back now. I'll pretend I don't know next time I use a machine like that and see how it goes.

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... IF YOU READ what's on the screen, it tells you exactly...

Whoa! Echoes of my old job in support

cyberhippie · Jan 6th, 2007, 21:49

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'Listen Doofus, do as I say or I'll chew your card!"

Like in airports that one that goes

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mind your step

As you step off the moving carpet!!

capt_mahajan · Jan 6th, 2007, 21:49

all this reminds me too much of the time I tried to pay the cabbie with my atm card in antwerp... but, in my defence, the wine after the vodka hit me.

Lugubert · Jan 7th, 2007, 21:15

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Originally Posted by Digital Drifter

Being uncharitable, I'd say, IF YOU READ what's on the screen, it tells you exactly that!

So the screen says, please dip your card and remove to proceed while you go chatting on the mobile and then claim to be stumped.

I know how to read. In several languages. If the screen had given any instructions other than Welcome (or whatever), I'm sure that I had managed. Some didn't even tell me which way to insert the card! And if it had said "dip your card", I would have chosen another language. DIP?!? So, after some refusals, I didn't guess, but on each occasion waited until I found an ATM giving instructions.

Nick-H · Jan 7th, 2007, 23:26

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Originally Posted by cyberhippie

Like in airports that one that goes

As you step off the moving carpet!!

That would be the one that has has just landed from the middle east?

Please do not undo your seat belts until the carpet has come to a complete halt. Please make sure that any magic lamps are packed away during landing and take off....

Digital Drifter · Jan 8th, 2007, 09:56

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Originally Posted by Lugubert

I know how to read. In several languages. If the screen had given any instructions other than Welcome (or whatever), I'm sure that I had managed. Some didn't even tell me which way to insert the card! And if it had said "dip your card", I would have chosen another language. DIP?!? So, after some refusals, I didn't guess, but on each occasion waited until I found an ATM giving instructions.

aaaargh!

In India, Citibank(I believe) was the first to do dip and remove style ATM transactions; others like HDFC swallow(This is going down the porn line..

). Now near the card slot, there are pics of how the card should be inserted. over the years, they have faded, been torn and even completely scrubbed out.

& what's wrong with DIP?

& what's wrong with punching or shaking the ATM a few times,if it does not work the way you want. It works for me, as in, the security comes running and helps me using the ATM.

Damn it, people have stopped thinking these days.

Nick-H · Jan 8th, 2007, 12:39

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Originally Posted by Digital Drifter

aaaargh!

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In India, Citibank(I believe) was the first to do dip and remove style ATM transactions; others like HDFC swallow(This is going down the porn line..

). Now near the card slot, there are pics of how the card should be inserted. over the years, they have faded, been torn and even completely scrubbed out.

But they just don't exist in UK at all. Except where a machine has been 'modified' by fraudsters to collect the info from the magnetic strip

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& what's wrong with DIP?

to this English speaker it implies '...in a liquid'. Like the word 'dunk' would imply '...in a cup of tea until the card is soggy and delicious to eat'

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& what's wrong with punching or shaking the ATM a few times,if it does not work the way you want. It works for me, as in, the security comes running and helps me using the ATM.

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Damn it, people have stopped thinking these days.

Damn it, why should I have to think to get money out of an ATM. My brain cells are a scarce resource!

capt_mahajan · Jan 8th, 2007, 12:43

and don't even let me start on how my atm deducted the amount twice for a single withdrawal.

Digital Drifter · Jan 8th, 2007, 15:37

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Originally Posted by Nick-H

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Damn it, why should I have to think to get money out of an ATM. My brain cells are a scarce resource!

The root of all the soaring debt. and add to that scarce brain cells, no wonder people are heading towards financial ruin.

ranjan154 · Jan 8th, 2007, 16:07

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Namaste all IM's,
GOOD NEWS, I was able to obtain my ATM cars after sweating for three days, chewing off all my fingernails and any skin I could off my fingers.

Great to hear that.. and that was really a close shave.. normally here in india, they courier the card to the address you have provided.. ofcourse they cut some service charge from your account.. Had happened to me also some days back..

Jan 6th, 2007, 16:37	#18
gregornot Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: UT,SLC-CA,-Bay Area Posts: 249	Arrived OK Namaste Arrived OK, we are fine just jet lag Will post after some more sleep Bye, gregor __________________ "If the roots remain untouched and firm in the ground, a felled tree still puts forth new shoots. If the underlying habit of craving and aversion is not uprooted, suffering arises anew over and over again."

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capt_mahajan Infidel Sufi Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: styx Posts: 13,606	all this reminds me too much of the time I tried to pay the cabbie with my atm card in antwerp... but, in my defence, the wine after the vodka hit me. __________________ . Outside the machine

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Nick-H This is just a cameo appearance Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Chennai, India Posts: 36,203	My first encounter with the ones where you insert it and withdraw it again straight away had me completely foxed. The guy next in the queue had to show me.

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