Chip & Pin card

AE no longer offers a Blue Card with chip&pin...they discontinued it.

https://search.americanexpress.com/app/answers/display/a_id/1253/kw/%20%20expresspay

https://search.americanexpress.com/app/answers/display/a_id/1254/kw/%20%20expresspay it looks like they do have them now. they call the feature of the computer chip: express pay.

Sandy, that link is referring to an RFID contact-less payment chip; it works via radio waves. It's designed for small transactions at places like fast food joints, and convenience stores. It's a completely different "animal" to chip&pin cards which require you to physically i n s e r t your card into a terminal. RFID cards are becoming very common in the US and the rest of the world and go by different names like expresspass, paypass and blink, but they're not currently a substitute to chip & pin. p.s. does anyone know why the board won't let me use the word "i n s e r t" in a posting????? This is the second time today the board has filtered out the word?!?!?

@ Michael Schneider, I've also noted that the HelpLine removes portions of certain words, like the one you mentioned. This started occurring after the HelpLine was "re-built" several months ago after a significant "crash" (you might remember the circumstances). I'm not an expert on programming websites, but suspect that any words that could affect operation of the site have been set to "auto-delete". Cheers!

@Michael ... I've also had a problem with the word "I nsert" and also sometimes with "selec tion"

Judging by the amount of chatter that IC cards generate on this website, I'm starting to think they've become the new Holy Grail for travelers from North America. I noticed that the formatting errors began around the first time HeWhoShallNotBeNamed was banned. Whether or not the two events were related in some way, I have no idea...

@Michael Schneider Pretty much everything that gets stripped out of a post here is due to those things being "keywords" that can be used in database queries. Google yourself up a search on "SQL Injection" to get a better idea of what the webmaster is trying to prevent. I use a different method, generally to protect against such attacks, but what I do may not be available to the webmaster depending on their specific db and so on. General rule of thumb - i n s e r t, u p d a t e, d e l e t e and s e l e c t will probably trip the protection as would double dashes and possibly semicolons, single quotes and other various lesser used punctuation that has meaning in database queries. For any "geeks" out there, see http://xkcd.com/327/ for a comic based on the phenomenon.