On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 02:12:33 +0100, poldy wrote
(in article ):
> In article <0001HW.C41C414C001B3CA3B01AD9AF@news.cable.ntlworld.com>,
> Mike Lane wrote:
>
>>> There wasn't a machine that accepted anything 10 years ago. Even when
>>> there
>>> are
>>> they are some times out of order, even in the Netherlands. :o)
>>
>> It happened to me more recently than that. 2 years ago in a small town in
>> France we were stuck overnight having got too low on petrol. We had cash
>> and
>> several credit and debit cards from different banks. None of our cards
>> worked
>> in any of the automatic pumps in the town. It was after 5.00 pm and none of
>> the pumps were manned, so we couldn't use cash either.
>
> I thought that was an issue more for Americans, because our credit cards
> don't have the chips in them.
>
There still seem to be issues with compatibility between systems in different
countries. I've never had any problems with ATMs in any country, but chip and
PIN devices particularly in smaller places give endless problems. I have
never managed to get an automatic petrol pump in France to work with any
card. These days, as I've said, I don't even try.
--
Mike Lane (UK North Yorkshire)
To contact me replace invalid with mike underscore lane
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