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Darryl Yeo 🛠️
@darrylyeo
My waiter told me that they no longer accept American Express… because of Brexit. Apparently England was the guarantor of the US money system for all of the EU, but since they pulled out, the American banks have had to negotiate agreements with every individual country. How tedious. “It’s been two months since it started working in Germany, so I think about two months before it starts working over here.”
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Colin Charles
@bytebot
I think he's fudding you - the owner just doesnt want to pay the swipe fees (or they just got a new terminal that doesn't support it)
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Darryl Yeo 🛠️
@darrylyeo
Don’t think so – haven’t once been able to use my American Express card in any shop or grocery store in Czechia thus far.
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Colin Charles
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wow. i'm trying to think, but the last time i was there, i might have just visa/mastercard (which are also american, btw!). except for the hotel, i don't think i managed amex anywhere else
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Darryl Yeo 🛠️
@darrylyeo
Yup, all Visa/Mastercard over here.
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Colin Charles
@bytebot
Yeah I think it’s the swipe fees for real. Oh Uber amex works (since international anyway)
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Samuel ツ
@samuellhuber.eth
Uber does process in Czechia directly yes Re Germany Amex has never not been an option here though the high fees have next to no German restaurant / smaller shop (think not big company) accept it. Works well for online payments though which are mostly stripe and PayPal checkouts in germany
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Colin Charles
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Correct. I’m actually kinda glad that visa/mastercard now work in Germany. I used to make a once yearly trip to Berlin and it was notorious for just being cash only!!! I consider every time I can touch less cash, kind of a win. So now the only holdout is Japan. Big hotel chains (Hyatt/marriott/ihg) do accept amex in Germany though thankfully
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