From: axel@white-eagle.invalid.uk
Subject: Re: Credit card without chip and pin
Newsgroups: uk.finance uk.legal
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 17:41:19 GMT

In uk.finance Stuart  wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 09:05:54 GMT, axel@white-eagle.invalid.uk wrote:

>>Last night in a restaurant my friend's Visa card was not accepted
>>as a means of payment because it was a foreign issued card
 
>>with'chip & pin'.
 
>> By 'refused' I do not mean by any electronic system,
>>just that the resataurant refused to consider it on the grounds
>>that the bank had told them not to accept any cards not fitted
>>with a 'chip & pin' facility.

> I'm confused ..I take it you mean that the card did NOT have a Chip + Pin .??

Yes, I mean exactly that.

Axel