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Jul 15, 2018 | 10:39 pm

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Originally Posted by Majuki

Nice find. I forgot to go check out Safeway in January, but I will soon, along with Walmart. Regarding QuickPass, I wasn't able to get it to work in Hong Kong when percysmith and I tried a few different merchants back in early 2017. I don't use the card domestically due to its low rewards structure, but I was testing it out about a year ago. Due to the number of fallback transactions at the time, I promptly got a call from ICBC inquiring if I had the card in my possession. I even almost had the card rejected at a local merchant because of the need to do a fallback due to lack of PBOC support.

One would think they'd tone down the fraud monitoring for the US a bit so that fallback transactions in and of themselves aren't suspicious. Though maybe that's no longer necessary considering the increase in support?

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