Re:Credit Card Signatures Are About to Become Extinct in the...
by dtech on Monday April 09, 2018 @08:32AM
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Credit cards in general are not too popular in Europe, they're either not accepted at all or only Visa and Mastercard are accepted. A Maestro debit card is your best bet and will work in almost all terminals in Europe.
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Re:Credit Card Signatures Are About to Become Extinct in the...
by kasey_junk on Monday April 09, 2018 @09:45AM
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This is not at all true of London. Last time I was there I didn’t even get local currency as I used credit for everything.
Re:Credit Card Signatures Are About to Become Extinct in the...
by Symbiote on Monday April 09, 2018 @09:56AM
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That is two different things.
Paying by card is very common in some countries (Northern Europe, France), paying by credit card is common in some (UK, Ireland), paying by cash is common in others (Germany).
It's not possible to generalize all of Europe for any of these, except to say that all EU/EEA countries have modern systems.
(For example, there are restaurants in Sweden that don't take cash, and restaurants in Germany that don't take any cards, restaurants in Denmark that charge an extra 2% if you use a credit card rather than a debit card, and restaurants in Britain that happily accept the 5% it costs them to accept AmEx.)