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Old Dec 25, 2010, 9:16 pm
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Steve M
 
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Originally Posted by ajnz
I wonder how hotels identify and refuse debit cards? My debit cards look like any other Visa and Mastercard with no particularly identifying artefacts.
The ones issued in the US often (always?) say "DEBIT" on the face of them somewhere. Also, there's probably something on the mag stripe that indicates its a debit card, if for no other reason than to indicate that it's also valid for PIN-based POS purchases.
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