On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 11:30:03PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> > I'm pretty sure that's a no, I've never seen conductors carry around
> > anything more than very old-school black leather wallets. Frankly,
> > them having mobile EFT POS devices sounds like sci-fi :)
>
> Hmm, in Germany they have devices that at least read the BahnCard, I
> would not be surprised if they can also read credit cards. Haven???t tried
> though :-)
It looks to me that it's a significant leap from supporting their own
loyalty card to supporting other people's cards.
> > Can't you ask your own bank to exchange you some HRK in advance?
>
> Will do, although for that I yet need to find out (didn???t try yet) the
> maximum of the possible prices of either bus or train, so that I don???t
> have too much HRK afterwards.
Yep, that's a bother - they'll exchange larger banknotes, but you can't
return to them with coins or even smaller banknotes. It's basically a scheme
to extort that last bit of change from tourists, but it's unclear why the
home banks participate in it. They just don't care about small amounts of
money I guess. :)
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