I traveled through Schipol last January. My Visa debit card (with PIN) worked 
at the human counter with the "PIN Cards Only" sign. It was later refused at a 
different station, but I think that was a matter of an untrained attendant more 
than a technology failure. (He expected a chip.)

On May 9, 2010, at 11:43 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:

> On 8 mei 2010, at 1:50, Glen Zorn wrote:
> 
>> More than once, I _have_ asked the driver specifically if he accepts credit
>> cards (the advertised policy notwithstanding) only to have him refuse it
>> upon arrival...
> 
> Curious way to engage in commerce. Where was this?
> 
> BTW:
> 
> I'm typing this from Schiphol airport. I just went to the train ticket 
> counter, and they have big signs posted everywhere that they only accept 
> PIN-enabled credit cards. And cash, of course. Note that on 
> http://www.ietf78.nl/ it says that the railway ticket machines accept cash, 
> but that's only barely true: only some of them do, and then only in the form 
> of coins.
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