Am Tue, 26 Apr 2016 12:25:41 +0000 schrieb Kagamin <[email protected]>: > On Monday, 25 April 2016 at 09:16:11 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: > > Germany is a cash-in-hand country. Credit cards are rejected > > in most places that I've tried. > > You mean debit cards are accepted? Anyway why credit cards? > Aren't credit money more expensive than debit? The overdraft > limit is just a fixed offset from zero and you pay extra > interest, one could just imagine zero balance at his preferred > offset and keep it there.
The girocard (sometimes called EC card) debit card system is accepted at most places: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girocard IIRC you need a german bank account though to own such a card ;-)
