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My $15 square card reader lasted exactly 3 months before it died on a $400 sale.

Bought it off Amazon because the free one from my processor took 2 weeks to ship. Anyone else have one of these cheap readers crap out at the worst time?
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flores.mark
Did you have the reader plugged directly into your phone or were you using a short extension cable? I found out the hard way that the constant bending near the Lightning port on those cheap readers creates a weak point that kills the connection over time. The metal on those little plugs is super thin and cracks inside the casing after a few hundred swipes.
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michael803
michael80317d ago
Yeah, the old plug-and-pray method.
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noahwood
noahwood17d ago
Totally, that bending issue got me too after a few months with mine.
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