For the self-conscious: Cashiers generally don’t give a fuck about your declined card and probably see declined cards many times a day. It’s not worth their time to judge you, is what I am saying. If anything, they are just as broke as you and are quietly sympathizing.
I’d probably just assume there’s a problem with the card vs. account.
My Amex platinum got denied at a ritzy area. She just said try inserting and it worked no fuss or anything.
Also, I’ve had various cards decline 10-20 times over that last decade and not once was it due to not having funds on that account. The majority of the time it’s using Amex where not supported. Or entering the wrong pin. Or me not seeing the sign that said debit only. Or me forgetting I had cancelled that card already.
Isn’t that the point of the meme? “Yeah, I’ve been there…”
There’s also the fact that chip readers are shit and might error out a good card anyway.
I love the array of hacks that pros use on order to get that good scan. Cleaning, using a tissue sidecar, many-swipes, etc.
Aah shit… Gotta get down on my knees again…
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
You watch one video mentioning something about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and suddenly you see the symptoms in just about every old photograph…
if you accept the offer for one month free of amazon prime with an order and then turn off you card so that it declines the order you get to keep the free month of amazon prime or until you mess with you payment options again.
the more you know!
Young Todd Howard
This is just the default face we have in the Midwest USA.
Oh man, happened to me today. It only worked at different register on 6th attempt.
Edit: But only one of them was actually “Payment declined”. That’s because the terminal required me to remove the card and swipe it, which I got blocked at the bank, so it obviously declined. The rest of errors were “Terminal payment not accepted” and I have no idea what it meant by that.
What’s worse I find is self-checkout’s (at least in the UK) require a member of staff to clear your failed payment. Like, there’s no reason it couldn’t just go back to “Try again”, instead the light goes red, the single person who has already approved your over 18 purchases, your brought your own bag alert, etc. has to come back on their route of 40 self checkouts to check that you have in-fact not got enough money on your card, and then to stand next to you (or worse, bugger off to someone else) for you to try again or use a different card. Argh.
“What!? There should be plenty on there! This is a complete surprise to me!”
