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Arrived in London yesterday... I've tried to use my new Chase Marriott Visa 5x and it hasn't worked at all. Failed at two restaurants, Selfridges, on the Underground, and at Zara (my wife's transaction with her duplicate card).

The Selfridges attempt was straight out of Catch-22... The screen said that the cashier couldn't swipe it because their system recognized it as a chip card, but the chip intake wouldn't work either.

This worked at the hotel while checking in, but nowhere else.

I've already called Chase, who assured me that the card is active and works perfectly, but clearly this is not the case.

Any tips from the FT experts? Brought this card to Europe specifically to avoid incurring FTFs with other cards in my wallet, but I've failed miserably at this so far and as a result, I'm burning through cash at an unsustainable rate....