Originally Posted by
channa
It's not just chase. I had a similar such issue in Munich at the railway station -- could not find a machine that took a magstrip credit card, though all machines took credit cards.
Fortunatley I had cash, and just paid that way vs. finding a human.
OK then, all of us who are world travelers must deluge the issuing banks with demands for cards with the chip. Nobody wants to carry large amounts of cash when travelling for any length of time. This is a society now largely based on plastic rather than case. Chase and others owe us cards that functgion worldwide. The USA is no longer the center of the universe.