Debit cards are NOT exactly like credit cards by any stretch of the
imagination!!  Especially if it is an "Electron" Visa card, or marked "for
electronic transactions only".

Either stick with a credit card(s) where you have real protection or use
other "normal" means of transactions.  It seems that you are so focused on
having a money problem that you are almost certainly assuring yourself that
you will indeed have some kind of a problem.  Remember the old adage, "if
you go looking for trouble you're gonna find trouble".  How in the world do
you ever expect find time to enjoy your trip in any way with the presumption
that everyone is out to rob you?!

Oh yeah, you'll find that even online a lot of places will refuse your Visa
Debit card.  Check your expiration date, around here they commonly expire 15
or 25 years from the issue date ... you can't even enter that late a date in
most shopping carts!!

Regards/Roger, in Bangkok

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Herbert Graf <mailinglist4@farcite.net>wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 12:35 -0700, Bob Blick wrote:
> > Agreed. The only thing I would add is to always have two different
> > credit cards. Because if someone does something bad with your account,
> > it can take a week to get a replacement card. Or if you're traveling, no
> > card until you get back home.
> >
> > Keep the alternate card in a different pocket :)
>
> That's very good advice, especially when traveling. It's also generally
> a good idea that your second card has no relation to your first, i.e.
> get a Mastercard from a different bank if your primary is VISA.
>
> I don't know about all of Europe, but in some places (Austria)
> Mastercard seems to be more accepted then Visa.
>
> TTYL
>
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