Quote Originally Posted by KiltedKnome View Post
Please note that not all shops up here will accept the new credit card "debit" cards, so be prepared for that. We had a case recently where someone from the US tried to pay for something on our point-of-sale (POS) machine and because the card was linked directly to a line-of-credit, it was rejected by the internal settings of the POS.
True... Luckily such limitations are not that common (as someone who has and uses a credit/debit card issued by a U.S. bank)... And if a merchant can't accept that form of payment, it wouldn't be too difficult to find any ATM and withdraw cash. (But you will pay a service fee for doing that). I also have a British-issued Mastercard that's denominated in Canadian dollars, from a foreign company who keeps an branch office in Calgary. Again, 90% of the time I can pay without any problems, but once in a blue moon it gets rejected from certain merchants due to the settings of their machine, or agreement with their payment processor. (Yeah, I know. My line of work requires me to deal with some El Bizarro financial institutions). Lol.