Credit cards not working in Italy?????
Apr 21st, 2009, 01:27 PM
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 208
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Credit cards not working in Italy?????
Here is a link to an article on US credit cards not working in Europe. Has anyone run into this difficulty? If so, please share. Thanks!
http://www.smartertravel.com/travel-...tml?id=2880326
http://www.smartertravel.com/travel-...tml?id=2880326
Apr 21st, 2009, 01:32 PM
#3
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 23,091
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
This is an old problem. Some places do not know that they can swipe the card in the slot at the top of the scanner rather than pushing it in. How you handle that linguistically is another question.
Apr 21st, 2009, 01:37 PM
#4
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 1,022
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Never had any problems in Italy, in France and in England some cards have to be hand entered because they are almost all chip embedded and US cards are not. Guess we will be next for the chip embedding.
Apr 21st, 2009, 02:36 PM
#6
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 49,560
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
The only place I've ever had a problem is at some unattended gas stations in France. But almost everyone I know has had that problem and figured out not to buy gas when there's only a machine and no human.
Thread
Original Poster
Forum
Replies
Last Post
jwhellrung
Travel Tips & Trip Ideas
23
Jan 2nd, 2016 05:44 PM
cbgetaway2015
Europe
29
Jan 16th, 2015 12:03 PM
