Quote Originally Posted by pomtzu View Post
OK - call me stupid - but how the heck do you tell if it has a chip or not??? And what is a blink???

Blink is just the name (made up by the card issuer) for the process the card goes through. It does need to be swiped, just waved at the reader to work.

Check the back of your credit card, if it has the blink ))) on it, it has
a reader ID chip.