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laser or cash in france?

  • 07-04-2009 9:04pm
    #1
    siobhan.murphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,340 ✭✭✭


    can I use my laser as widely as here at atms and in shops in france?


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  • #2
    aerosol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 471 ✭✭aerosol


    Only ATM's


  • #3
    NOTSURE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20 ✭NOTSURE


    buy your diesel at supermarkets and not on the motorways ,you can use your credit card even at the automatic fuel stations its cheaper and better quality fuel.most shops take laser cards well they took ours anyway!


  • #4
    aerosol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 471 ✭✭aerosol


    Hi Notsure, I didn't think it was possible to use an Irish laser/debit card in a shop outside of Ireland,no probs in the majority of ATM's.


  • #5
    david
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,691 ✭✭✭david


    Yes Maestro (Laser) cards should be accepted at POS/ATM's.


  • #6
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    Standard Irish chip & pin Laser cards are taken in shops and garages across France. The only places I have found that they will not work are at toll booths and 24 hour automated petrol pumps. Other than that you're in business.
    NOTSURE wrote: »
    buy your diesel at supermarkets and not on the motorways
    Correct
    NOTSURE wrote: »
    you can use your credit card even at the automatic fuel stations
    Not correct - French cards only


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  • #7
    hynesie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 245 ✭✭hynesie


    Hagar wrote: »
    Not correct - French cards only
    We used an Bank of Ireland Mastercard in the automated supermarket petrol stations no problem.


  • #8
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    Mastercard is a credit card not a basic laser card as per the OP's question.

    Even so, all my local supermarket petrol stations have "CB only" stickers on them. CB = Carte Blue a combined laser/credit card. My BOI laser card is not accepted.

    I have seen many German/UK/Italian tourists having to leave the automated pumps without fuel because their cards were not accepted.


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