Originally Posted by
Majuki
I have never been to Greece, so I can't say how prevalent contactless is there. I know that the Pays aren't enabled in Greece. I have to wonder if they have PIN bypass since many coming from others countries would have chip-and-PIN cards. In this sense, I prefer countries with widespread contactless use and chip-and-PIN because the terminals are always customer facing. With a customer facing terminal one can at least see the prompts.
It could be possible the terminal has PIN bypass for both chip-and-PIN and chip-and-singature cards (merchants bears fraud loss).
Whatver they lose in fraud they more than recoup than DCCing every non-Euro card.