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by r00fus 2380 days ago
That all changed with chipped cards - they work fine now (at least for my preferred ones).

Of course, that didn't help in 2017 when we had to get one of the tellers to do a on-the-spot conversion of dollars to euros at marginal rate of about 200 USD to 100 EUR (way higher than interbank rate) - we had no choice, and no one to complain to.

I'm not sure the teller enjoyed the transaction either.