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> The restaurant we went to on Sunday evening claimed their card machine wasn’t working, despite me having seen them use it with another customer successfully o
by aredox 3y ago
> The restaurant we went to on Sunday evening claimed their card machine wasn’t working, despite me having seen them use it with another customer successfully only ten minutes before. “Conveniently” there was an ATM across the street from the restaurant.
Wait, isn't that that euronet quasi-scam, which they do with the complicity of local businesses?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38343352 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38343352
- leejo 3y agoAlmost certainly that as well - when I hopped across the street I wondered if there was complicity. It was just all too convenient. Had the machine not featured a contactless card reader, so possibly been a skimming scam, I would have raised hell, very loudly, in French and English, in the middle of the (now busier) restaurant. The cost I shrugged off, the conversion was from CHF to EUR so it still cost half what an equivalent meal would have cost back home.