<div dir="ltr">Anecdotally in the United States, I've certainly come across businesses that accept debit cards and not credit cards. It's usually been when the business sells a controlled substance that's heavily taxed (like alcohol) or legally complicated (like cannabis), but it's not limited to that.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 2, 2022 at 9:51 AM Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <<a href="mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org">tagging@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Apr 2, 2022, 14:24 by <a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com" target="_blank">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>:<br></div><blockquote style="border-left:1px solid rgb(147,163,184);padding-left:10px;margin-left:5px"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>sent from a phone<br></div><blockquote><div>On 2 Apr 2022, at 13:40, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <<a href="mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">tagging@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div><br></div><div>In which regions/countries one may encounter situation of being able to pay with<br></div><div>debit card and unable to pay with credit card? Or reverse?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>it is not a question of regions or countries but a decision of every individual business which payment methods they accept (as long as there isn’t a legal requirement to accept certain payment methods of course)<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">Well, in some regions at least basically everyone decided the same.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In Poland there are basically two states<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">- cash only<br></div><div dir="auto">- cash and cards from Mastercard/Visa duopoly are accepted<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Maybe there are some rare exceptions, maybe some places accept also<br></div><div dir="auto">other cards but do not advertise it.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But from my experience, in Poland anything more detailed than<br></div><div dir="auto">payment:cards=yes appears to be pointless to me.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">(I may be wrong even for Poland and have no idea about other places,<br></div><div dir="auto">that is why I started this thread)<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div> </div>
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