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China currently uses a company called EasyCard that
allows customers to add-value to their cards using the machines. Before the
recent changes to the machines, the EasyCard machines did not resemble slot
machines in the least. Now however, after the EasyCard company replaced all
158 of the machines, city councilors are accusing the company of operating
machines similar to the slot machines in Las Vegas.
The two Taipei city councilors announced that the EasyCard company cheated
1,014 passengers out of their money because of the change in the machines.
According to the councilmen, passengers will insert their money into the
slot machine type devices, but rather than adding money to their cards, the
machines give the cards back without the added value.
According to the EasyCard company, the new machines are not intended to
operate like slot machines in the least. The new machines simply take longer
to load the money onto the cards, and many passengers are not waiting long
enough for the money to finish loading onto the cards. As a remedy to this
situation, EasyCard announced that the machines now take two seconds rather
than the 30 seconds they previously took to load the cards.
The councilmen are appealing to the company, asking them to reimburse the
passengers who lost money in the machines. According to councilmen Chow,
“All told, they lost NT$326,600.” Though EasyCard has remedied the problem
with the machines, it is still up in the air whether or not they plan to
reimburse the passengers who lost their money.
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