Originally Posted by
gnaget
I am very familiar with Denmark and Sweden and it sounds from KSU's description that it is similar to Sweden where you do not need chip + pin.
In Denmark it is tougher and they love to add fees for CC use with extra surcharges for foreign.
So I suggest Capital One which is a non-chip card that has no surcharge for foreign transactions. You don't need to get a special card from Cap One; they are all surcharge free. That is my go-to card outside the US.
Also, I use a US driver's license as ID when they demand ID because there is no code. Never a problem.
Once I remember they required a personnummer and I don't have one. I don't know if it was this store's policy or because it was a large amount (SEK 30,000). I wound up giving someone else's and it worked fine.
Some of my US friends and family have had US state DLs not accepted in Norway and Sweden when asked for ID using credit cards with sig only -- then again I have lots of visiting or residing American friends and family who are of non-European ethnic backgrounds and the chances of store/mall clerks/security wanting to examine even their bags is higher than for most citizens of these countries. [Also, even I have had my US DLs refused or fussed over for acceptance as ID when picking up even domestic packages at stores/package pickup locations where I've got the recipient's package slip/details, ID and signed POA and the it happened because my ID was not in their ID books -- the irony sometimes was that my US passports also looked different than what was in some of those ID books/reference pages and yet that was still always accepted by private sector parties.]