Peculiar credit card request

"pdamiant" wrote in message
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"John.Stolz" wrote in message
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In the end I was forced to use AMEX (which was inconvenient for
all sorts
of
reasons)

Really? AMEX is by far the best credit card for travelers. What could
be
inconvenient about it?

Amex is by far the worst for travellers, especially if you are in
europe, italy has good coverage and the uk isnt bad either, apart from
the they are ****, visa and mastercard are the preferred card for a
traveling wilbury

I travel through Europe regularly and have found that Amex is an excellent
card to use. Some merchants and cheaper restaurants don't accept it, but
otherwise it is taken in a surprisingly large number of places. Amex'
superior customer service, e.g. replacing lost cards overnight, make it a
very desireable card for travelers. In addition to Italy and the UK, I've
used the card without incident in the Netherlands, France, Spain, Portugal,
Belgium, Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Switzerland, Austria and
Monaco.



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"pdamiant" wrote in message
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Amex is by far the worst for travellers, especially if you are in
europe, italy has good coverage and the uk isnt bad either, apart from
the they are ****, visa and mastercard are the preferred card for a
traveling wilbury


It depends on the type of travelling you do and the coverage
you need. I have both Amex and Mastercard, typcally using
the Amex for business expenses and the Mastercard
for private purchases

The classicAMEX cards is a charge card rather than a credit
card and has no fixed spending limit which is rather useful
travelling on business. AMEX also have excellent world wide
replcament services. I got a card replaced over the counter
at the AMEX branch in Rome, my Mastercard took a
couple of weeks to come through.

Keith

pdamiant wrote in message

Amex is by far the worst for travellers, especially if you are in
europe, italy has good coverage and the uk isnt bad either, apart from
the they are ****, visa and mastercard are the preferred card for a
traveling wilbury

It's pretty bad in the U.S. as well. Even the merchants that take it,
prefer that you use something else, but the bigger problem is that a
lot of stores and restaurants don't accept Amex due to the higher
transaction fees.

I have an Amex, but only because it's the only card accepted at
Costco. Costco negotiated some sort of sweetheart deal with Amex,
after Discover decided to change its cash rebate policy for warehouse
stores.

"Steven Scharf" wrote in message
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pdamiant wrote in message

Amex is by far the worst for travellers, especially if you are in
europe, italy has good coverage and the uk isnt bad either, apart from
the they are ****, visa and mastercard are the preferred card for a
traveling wilbury

It's pretty bad in the U.S. as well. Even the merchants that take it,
prefer that you use something else, but the bigger problem is that a
lot of stores and restaurants don't accept Amex due to the higher
transaction fees.


As far as the number of places any single card is accepted, Visa seems to be
the winner by a mile, er, kilometer. KM
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