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raccoon

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5. It is hard to get a credit card with a chip in the Empire. I have 3, have asked all of them about

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Tue Apr 22, 2014, 07:50 AM

Apr 2014

issuing me a credit card with a chip--and they all say they can't do it!

Here I thought we were #1......

Anyway, some have told me you can still use the magnetic strip CC in Europe most places. I will
be in Paris, not in some place off the beaten path, so I figure that must be right.

If any of you have experience to the contrary, please speak now!

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Is it true that in Europe, credit cards operate on a chip implanted on the card and not [View all] raccoon Mar 2014 OP

Apparently that is true pretty much everywhere except the US. cbayer Mar 2014 #1

See the following Dec. 2013 NPR story... PoliticAverse Mar 2014 #2

When I was in Scandinavia, I found out, at the suggestion of a train ticket seller in Copenhagen, Lydia Leftcoast Mar 2014 #3

That's why I use my American Express abroad mainer Mar 2014 #4

It is hard to get a credit card with a chip in the Empire. I have 3, have asked all of them about raccoon Apr 2014 #5

In Brazil they all have a chip. nt Nay Feb 2015 #6

It is true. The US is so far behind and some merchants in europe don't even cbayer Feb 2015 #7

Lol, did not realize I had previously posted to this thread. cbayer Feb 2015 #8