Originally Posted by
PWMFlyer19
I am going to take the jump and get a Discover card this week. Travel to China 6-8 times a year for a week or two at a time. Any new reports about easier acceptance ? Last post from almost 2 years ago. Cheers.
Used it all over a few weeks ago, no issues.
Originally Posted by
moondog
Acceptance isn't really an issue at all, but sometimes you need to convince/explain that Discover is on Union Pay.
Yes, I just tell them to "try it". Usually that works. If not I'll tell them it uses the same system as Unionpay.
Originally Posted by
cooljw
I printed out a Unionpay logo and glued it to the front of my Discover Card. Pretty much solves the acceptance issue.
However, I have encountered a number of stores - usually not in the big cities - that take Unionpay, but Discover just won't work. Terminal will just say transaction failed (交易失败) or sometimes throw some really odd error message. Seems that not all Unionpay systems accept Discover.
LOL, I like your idea. Odd though, something fake in China?
Seriously, some stores have two POS terminals, one for foreign cards and one for UP. Make sure they use the Unionpay one.