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Re: Advance travel info for IETF-78 Maastricht

2010-03-31 07:15:45
On 3/30/2010 9:09 PM, Dean Willis wrote:

On Mar 30, 2010, at 4:55 AM, Robert Kisteleki wrote:

On 2010.03.30. 11:41, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
I'll prepare information about all of this as soon as I know the
transition status during the IETF week. And in any event, there are no
early booking / online booking discounts for Dutch train tickets, and
buying online with Dutch Railways requires the iDEAL payment system that
only Dutch banks use.

That reminds me: if you intend to use a credit card in electronic
contexts (such as buying train tickets at a machine, etc.), you should
make sure you know your PIN code. On the way home from Anaheim I
helped some guy who had some problems because he wasn't even aware
that his card had a PIN code.


Many US cards do not work in point-of-sale applications in Europe even
if one knows the PIN code. Last Spring, I had 6 US bank cards and a
SwissPost card rejected at the train kiosk in Amsterdam, and I believe
the same 6 failed at whatever IETF we last went to in Europe, because I
recall borrowing train tickets from Ole.

SO the answer is to call the card provider and make sure they will honor
your charges in that foreign country. This is actually a really good
idea since for personal cards they (the Card Provider) bear all of the
risk so they are locking down out-of-area charges for personal cards as
much as possible.

The solution is to keep your card company informed of your travel plans,
or get a card which is intended for that purpose.

Todd

-- 
Dean
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