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Re:Goldman Is Looking for a Way Out of Its Partnership with ... by dvt on Friday June 30, 2023 @05:31PM (#36542602)
Total nonsense. I was traveling for 3-4 months last year, and my AMEX was accepted almost everywhere in Spain, Portugal, Germany, etc.
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Re:Goldman Is Looking for a Way Out of Its Partnership with ... by voter101 on Friday June 30, 2023 @06:51PM (#36543608)
In Germany being able to pay with a card is not a standard. And from that subgroup of places accepting cards, a big number of them will accept only Giro (German card standard). Visa/MC is far from being universally accepted and AMEX is even rarer.

That changes of course, but mostly in big cities' centers (Covid accelerated things in Berlin). I hope businesses catch up with the new wave of payment terminals like iZettle and SumUp - they support all these different cards without a problem

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