Originally Posted by YuropFlyer

Guys, how is it going with PayWave/the technology you just have to wave the card at the reader (or whatever they call it for MC/Visa) in your countries?

I've experienced PayWave a few times in SIN now (with a foreign card, despite them telling me that it only works for local cards ) and given SIN, I was never DCC'ed, but I assume that it should be the same everywhere that PayWave is used, as DCC obviously isn't compatible with PayWave (unless the criminals banksters find a way somehow, I guess..) so it should be save that way? Also never seen a foreigner (using a non CHF card) that used PayWave at the airport getting scammed so far.

If one buys stuff for 300€, it's quite easy to fight over the scam (as it's worth 20€ or so) - but if it's 10€, sometimes even myself will find it troublesome to fight over the principle. So if PayWave is DCC free, this would be a great thing as I expect the technology to be used at 90%+ of the terminals rather soon? Obviously MC/Visa are pushing it, because it gets them even the small transactions, that most people used cash to pay.