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« Reply #45 on: May 21, 2005, 03:31:10 pm » |
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In the modern advance in technology i think our chip and pin is not compatible with the french system!!!
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« Reply #46 on: May 21, 2005, 04:47:25 pm » |
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Take plenty of clean underpants.
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« Reply #47 on: May 21, 2005, 05:05:40 pm » |
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« Reply #48 on: May 21, 2005, 05:25:56 pm » |
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In the modern advance in technology i think our chip and pin is not compatible with the french system!!!
Worked OK last year. DB
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beer makes life btr, its pretty bad so drink more!
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« Reply #49 on: May 21, 2005, 06:19:46 pm » |
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« Reply #50 on: May 21, 2005, 06:28:08 pm » |
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Take plenty of clean underpants.
I find you can turn 'em inside out and back to front and get four days out of them. Travel Light is my motto!
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« Reply #51 on: May 22, 2005, 07:09:47 pm » |
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Take plenty of clean underpants.
Dont try these new seamless ones. Bloody itchy... unlesss ??
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« Reply #52 on: May 23, 2005, 12:14:41 am » |
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Chip & pin should work with VISA, but bank debits cards may be iffy.
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« Reply #53 on: May 23, 2005, 12:35:33 am » |
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Chipped cards are now the norm now here in France, However friends from the UK who come to visit often complain that their credit card with both systems are often declined from the cashpoints and supermarkets!!! So much for Visa Etc.
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« Reply #54 on: May 23, 2005, 10:54:14 am » |
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Chipped cards are now the norm now here in France, However friends from the UK who come to visit often complain that their credit card with both systems are often declined from the cashpoints and supermarkets!!! So much for Visa Etc.
3 weeks ago in France, our chip & pin worked in the supermarket and the manned kiosk of the attached petrol station, but NOT in the unmanned credit card payment machines at the same petrol station.
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« Reply #55 on: May 23, 2005, 12:23:38 pm » |
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Yes, I've found that the pumps that only take cards do not like UK cards.
As these things can be left on all night it means the Brits get no petrol through Rouen and most of the way down the N138 after 9pm - I had to take the motorway to Caen as there is a service area not far from Rouen. Plus the big filling station as you drive into Oiustreham only takes French Plastic (I may have been Sunday) - fill up at Caen.
This must be against at least 3 EEC directives
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« Reply #56 on: May 26, 2005, 01:29:16 pm » |
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« Reply #57 on: May 26, 2005, 02:19:33 pm » |
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Yes, I've found that the pumps that only take cards do not like UK cards.
As these things can be left on all night it means the Brits get no petrol through Rouen and most of the way down the N138 after 9pm - I had to take the motorway to Caen as there is a service area not far from Rouen. Plus the big filling station as you drive into Oiustreham only takes French Plastic (I may have been Sunday) - fill up at Caen.
This must be against at least 3 EEC directives
I'm sure you're right! However it only seems to be the UK that has to adhere to them!! Could you imagine the outcry from the do-gooders if we had any form of product or service that was only available to the British!
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