Originally Posted by FallenPlat

Sorry for the simple-simon question, but if you use the PIN on a chip & signature card -- i.e., the on-line "cash advance" PIN -- does the transaction flow through as a cash advance or just as a plain ordinary purchase? I've never tried this and I'd hate to have to convince some CSR that, no, it wasn't really a cash advance.

I'd really appreciate the info.

And, yes, my pure chip & signature Merrill Visa really did work at one of the remote CDG RER kiosks last year. Maybe a glitch?

There's a funny coda to all this, too. Last year we ended up not using our Paris-CDG tickets because a smog emergency had made all metro/RER trips free. Kind of a Shanghai-meets-Paris moment. This was wholly outside my experience, but the happy result is that on our next trip we won't have to use any CDG kiosks at all. So no kiosk roulette.