MTA’s systemwide nonacceptance of credit or debit…
Wha… Does this happen ? Apparently… It took me an hour today to get from port authority to my work which is aroun 85st. There were some train delays it seems but thats not what slowed me down.
I was trying to buy a metro-card and the lines were unusually long. After staying online for about 10 minutes and getting to the MTA vending machine, I try to get a card using my credit card…watch “Processing…” for about 2 minutes then says cannot process… I try to run it as debit card, same thing…try again…same
I figure I will try another machine… Leave the line go back to the end of another. Stand in line for 10 minutes… while I am almost at the machine… one of the MTA employees is saying that there is a system wide something-rather so you cannot use neither debit or credit cards, only cache… well, thats a bummer, because all I got it my card…
And, couple of weeks ago I lost my wallet, this is a new card, and I do not remember the pin. Because being INGDirect, they send you a pin on peice of paper. I called my home to see if the peice of paper could be located…nope could not… Then I call ING direct and thankfully they tell me that pin is the same on the new card as the old one… that helps…
I ended up getting a 20$ card… but when I was standing online for the third time there were people trying to use their cards over and over again. I actually told one guy next to me that the machines were not taking the cards. It just crazy that they barely announced it, I am lucky to have heard it my self. The lines move slow because people do not know it is not working and keep trying to use their cards…
Talking about usability…
NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY
