Hi On Wednesday 17 September 2008 at 5:22:25 PM, in <mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Fernandez wrote:
> No such EPOS terminals exist over here. The credit card still > disappears with the waiter for a couple of minutes. Even in the old days of the "machine" you put the card on, placed a form over the top and slid the big lump of plastic back and forth, many people used to require the waiter to do it in front of them. > If you buy something from a small shop, it is possible that they ask > you to wait a bit while your card is carried to another shop - The closest I have seen to that is to ring another branch with the details to process the transaction, or to swipe the old-style slip and process it later elsewhere. > a company needs to have credentials with the bank before being > allowed to accept credit cards, and the small shop may not have > them. In my experience they just charge lots to handle your business and impose a stupidly small (or even zero) floor limit. You can still accept cards but it is expensive for you and they have to OK each transaction. I guess with chip and PIN and online referrals things are different now. > Many years ago, the risk over here was that your card was copied on > the way and you would suddenly find additional billings on your card > when you returned from your vacation. The carbon paper between the copies of the payment slip held all the info they needed to make their own copy. > However, this is not the case any more, the credit card companies > blacklist vendors easily. It still happens. You even hear about prosecutions involving places with a camera in the ceiling to record people entering their PIN. -- Best regards, MFPA Beware the deadly donkey falling slowly from the sky Using The Bat! v4.0.34 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.0.24.0 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
