Originally Posted by
YVR Cockroach
Just a note: While it may help with many purchases, foreign cards - even if chipped - aren't accepted universally. Wouldn't work with 3 different Canadian chip/PIN cards + 1 sign U.S. card at a manned SNCF ticket booth in France, nor in some French autoroute toll booths within the past month
I wonder if it has to do with the type of transaction. KLM has a debit payment option that works with Maestro cards and I've read about buying train tickets in AMS (at the machines) using the "debit card" option - apparently it only works for Dutch debit cards. I did try my chip/PIN card and it didn't work; I had to select the more expensive credit card transaction.