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Old Mar 18, 2018, 6:38 pm
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Originally Posted by joshwex90
What do you mean? I use my MasterCard all over Europe with contactless payment (unfortunately can't set it up with Google Pay because it's not American)
Some merchants in some countries only accept locally-issued Meastro cards, not Master Card cards from other countries. IIRC Denmark is one of those countries.

A phone app isn't going turn Master Card suddenly into Maestro just because that's all that's supported, will it? It'd be cool if it did, but that would seem to require a phone app that doesn't exist.

I'd even more like a phone app that could be used to pay cash-only merchants worldwide with a credit card, with no fees. But I'm not sure if that's as realizable a dream as, say, world peace .
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