Originally Posted by
rasheed
It should work if the international merchant does take Maestro. The chip on the card should have an AID that the terminal understands as Maestro. I just don't know though what type of merchants aside from the ATM itself would be useful that do not take direct Mastercard (which the card would likely try to default to).
I understand that some merchants in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands only take Maestro debit.
NO Mastercard credit cards! I did look at the most recent MasterCard rules, where under Maestro POS transactions it did say that they are performed either by Maestro cards themselves
or Mastercard debit cards (as recognized by the Corporation).
So, that leaves the question as to whether the "Corporation" recognizes my American card as legit, and whether they mean only other European bank cards?