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You mean you can't use the tap function when you make a credit card purchase
Tapping and chips with PIN numbers aren't really that common for credit card payments in the US. At least not in the northeast. You have to sign everywhere. Unless it's changed in the past 3-4 months.
Tapping and chips with PIN numbers aren't really that common for credit card payments in the US. At least not in the northeast. You have to sign everywhere. Unless it's changed in the past 3-4 months.
Never heard of tapping. Wouldn't have heard of PINs until I went to Europe. Store: PIN number for your card? Me: Huh? What's that? Store: Disbelief a credit card didn't have a pin.
The Spanish RENFE website rejects almost all American credit cards, perhaps for that reason. American debit cards do have a pin. I can't remember being asked for a credit card pin in Canada but perhaps I forgot.
Never heard of tapping. Wouldn't have heard of PINs until I went to Europe. Store: PIN number for your card? Me: Huh? What's that? Store: Disbelief a credit card didn't have a pin.
The Spanish RENFE website rejects almost all American credit cards, perhaps for that reason. American debit cards do have a pin. I can't remember being asked for a credit card pin in Canada but perhaps I forgot.
We do have them. The one thing Americans actually need to get on top of is getting rid of the penny. Best thing we ever did in Canada.
I would also question this poster as being British, considering he refers to US shows and movies as "our": As for American culture on the Brits? Certainly, I don't know why, but you guys love some of our ****ty TV and crappy movies
I also think most Americans ARE intelligent enough to realise that "Christian Bale" is British, among others. I've visited the States about ten times in the last fifteen years or so (mostly Texas, as my in-laws are there) and find most of the people I've met are fascinated and quite knowledgeable about the UK and the culture it projects. I've even been to a club in Houston where the playlist is primarily 80's British alternative/synth-pop which was pretty cool! Obviously the likes of Irene want to paint Americans as being ignorant because it serves her argument and her tiresome Brit-bashing.
I am both American and British. Do you really think I would lie about my ethnicity?
America is very large and has a population of well over 300 million people, finding a club that plays alternate music hardly means anything (not to mention, I did concede that British music has had good representation in the United States). There are people who know about the UK, but there are many, many, who don't know anything. I live in NY and most people here don't know or care about Britain. I would assume that if I went to Idaho, there would be even less people.
I have no idea why people are so contrary to the idea that the United Kingdom is not that influential over the United States, is there some type of competition between the two countries that I am missing out on?
Christian Bale never uses a British accent in his movies, why on Earth would most Americans be aware that he is British? That seems very unrealistic, unless you're exaggerating by using the word most.
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Never heard of tapping. Wouldn't have heard of PINs until I went to Europe. Store: PIN number for your card? Me: Huh? What's that? Store: Disbelief a credit card didn't have a pin.
The Spanish RENFE website rejects almost all American credit cards, perhaps for that reason. American debit cards do have a pin. I can't remember being asked for a credit card pin in Canada but perhaps I forgot.
Canada has it's debit machines set up to accept magnetic stripes as well for American tourists.
Tapping. Another one I forgot about that I haven't seen in the US yet either.
These are minor things in the long run, but it does hep explain to some Americans why people from other places roll their eyes when some Americans go on about how " developed " they are.
It's not always said in those words, but it is implied by some of the questions I get asked when in the U.S.
When I lived in the U.S, when I wanted to deposit money into my bank account, I had to fill out a deposit slip like it was 1992.
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Absolutely!