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Holidays, basically. The branch is closed and nobody really cares if your card cannot be processed for whatever obscure reason. No chat or phone support, obviou
by yeputons 4y ago
Holidays, basically. The branch is closed and nobody really cares if your card cannot be processed for whatever obscure reason. No chat or phone support, obviously, you have to go to your own personal banker, who is on holiday.
Happened at least once with a major country-wide bank in EU this year with some of my friends, and I doubt it's either the first or the last occurrence.
- monocasa 4y agoIn the states it's typical for credit/debit card support lines to still be open on bank holidays. They want to be able to nip fraud in the bud. Additionally bank holidays typically being heavily commercialized here means that large consumer transactions tend to cluster on them.
- outworlder 4y ago> if your card cannot be processed for whatever obscure reason That's why I carry at least two (physically _and_ in Apple wallet). One Visa, one Mastercard, one is issued by my credit union, the other by a large bank. If both Visa and Mastercard are down and both banks are unreachable then there are bigger issues. Connectivity issues where more common when transactions relied on landlines. It's pretty rare now. I also carry some cash as last ditch backup. Some places may be temporarily not accepting cards.