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Re: Bring a second, backup card if you can
Posted by Dean (more from Dean) on Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:22:53
In Reply to: Bring a second, backup card if you can, nateh89spg [Profile/Gallery]
, Fri, 27 Apr 2012 05:12:05
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Horror story: 1993
We got French Currency before we left from the local AMEX office. The clerk suggested that we could pay for the Currency via the AMEX credit card. Sounded easy and off we go.
What the clerk did was not company policy. So AMEX froze our CC while we were in Europe. Phone calls were not able to resolve this. Got back home and never did business with AMEX again. Our vacation was ruined in many regards.
A second CC is important.
Before you travel, call your CC company and tell them where you will be using the CC and how long you are traveling. You can have the card locked as part of a fraud detection algorithm. The computers treat a foreign countries the same, trips to Canada can be an issue as well.
When traveling, if your CC gets "skimmed" and a lot of charges appear, your card gets locked. All you need is one bad person handling your card to make a mess of things. Your CC can be locked at any time, traveling or not.
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Posts in this Thread:
- OT: America Credit Cards in Europe.., AlS, Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:28:27
- Re: OT: America Credit Cards in Europe.., George K, Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:13:58
- Re: OT: America Credit Cards in Europe.., Kristjan , Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:25:58
- Re: OT: America Credit Cards in Europe.., Bill Davies, Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:01:56
- Scandinavia, OKSaabs, Fri, 27 Apr 2012 07:52:08
- No worries..., Larry West , Fri, 27 Apr 2012 07:10:28
- Bring a second, backup card if you can, nateh89spg , Fri, 27 Apr 2012 05:12:05
- CapitalOne Visa, Bill Homer , Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:40:04
- Just back from Belgium a few weeks ago, Chadwick , Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:39:27
- Re: OT: America Credit Cards in Europe.., LI_Dave, Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:30:05
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