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> 4. Buy from several various mom-and-pop shops that also only for some reason have card machines that support Swedish cards. That seems unusual to me, Swedish
by AnssiH 8y ago
> 4. Buy from several various mom-and-pop shops that also only for some reason have card machines that support Swedish cards.
That seems unusual to me, Swedish debit cards are AFAIK just VISA/Mastercard cards so I'd think those should be accepted. I've never had any problems with my VISA debit/credit cards in Sweden but I guess I could've been lucky.
Do you have any more information about this? Or do you have a non-VISA/MC card?
- SOLAR_FIELDS 8y agoTypical American Visa credit card from HugeAmericanBank with no foreign exchange fee. I suspect it is related to the payment processor as hinted above. It’s somewhat rare and I see it only in smaller stores. Like a few days ago I was in a mom and pop kebab shop in a small town and it didn’t work. I’ve had similar problems on RyanAir planes in Europe (but for some reason whoever does payments for EasyJet, SAS, Norwegian, or British Airways I have no issues with)
- AnssiH 8y agoJust realized one possible cause - maybe your card isn't chip-and-pin like Swedish and other European cards? I guess some terminals/processors smaller places use might not be prepared to (or are configured not to) accept non-chip-and-pin cards. That would also explain why I haven't seen any issues - my cards are all chip-and-pin.
- icebraining 8y agoI'd say it's probably not a technical restriction but a commercial one. Their contract with the payment provider probably doesn't include credit cards, or at least foreign ones.