audreyh1
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The story is that last year's USAA issued cards, like yours, were "true" chip and PIN, but this year's issued cards switched to signature priority and don't work the same, and so people have run into problems.Sounds to me as if your informants were either confused or didn't understand.
I just got that MasterCard last September (I called USAA and asked for one with a chip). It worked flawlessly in unattended kiosks. An advantage is that it also worked as pure chip/pin in restaurants, where the Andrews card defaulted to chip/signature. A disadvantage is that there were foreign transaction fees.
The Andrews Visa card also worked flawlessly in unattended kiosks. It also had the advantage of no foreign transaction fees. I'm looking forward to my next trip to check out my new chipped PenFed Visa.
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