`I think when something like this happened to me it
was due to the magnetic catch on my cell phone case.
I put the players card in same pocket with the cell phone case and it
stopped working.
Dennis
vp-connoisseur
`
Richard Gordon wrote:
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When I leave
home, I carry a stack of player’s cards, which includes 2 from each of
the casinos I play regularly
The other
morning, I arrived at a casino and the first card I inserted in a
machine didn’t work, so I inserted the second, with the same result. I
asked a floor person if the system was down, and she said it wasn’t. We
went to a kiosk, where I swiped both cards. but could not access my
account. She suggested they had been demagnetized… Went to my car
where I keep spares, and returned with another card, which also failed
to work I decided that their system must be down, and went elsewhere
That evening, I
tried to use one of my cards at their steakhouse, and was told it
wasn’t valid. I had 2 new cards made, which worked perfectly, and there
was no problem with any aspect of my account.
The next day,
just out of curiosity, I brought a different card from home, and found
it did not work, although the new cards did.
Apparently, at
some point, someone or something had deactivated all the existing
cards I had from that casino, no matter where they were located, while
leaving my account intact
I wonder whether
anyone has encountered this situation, and/ or has the technical
expertise (or perhaps imagination) to come up with an explanation. The
casino couldn’t (or wouldn’t)