On Sunday, November 28, 2004, at 06:38 PM, Janice Blair wrote:
I alway use my bank card when travelling for getting cash.
Perhaps I should move this to Chat, but since we're talking about getting money to spend at lace fairs, I never use my bank card when travelling for getting cash. In 1999, I spent 3 weeks in Portugal, and for the first time, decided to depend on my bank card instead of bringing travellers' cheques. Not one machine in Portugal would accept the card, even though my Canadian bank said that it was accepted there and even though it worked in Spain, France, and Britain. Apparently, the card had a hidden expiry date and the machines would not accept it. When I got home, I got a new card (Bank of Montreal) and the hidden expiry date on that one was even earlier than the one that I'd had previously. I now deal with another Bank of Nova Scotia and their card too has the same problem. Most bank machines see that you have the money in your account and ignore the expiry date. Not the Portuguese machines in 1999. I could cry when I think of all the Portuguese lace, ceramics and tiles that I could have bought if I'd brought travellers' cheques. On top of that, when you use a bank machine, there's usually a charge. My bank account allows me to buy travellers' cheques at no charge. So, since 1999, I carry my bank card abroad for emergency use only.
Margot Walker in Halifax on the east coast of Canada
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