A regulation capping ATM withdrawal fees at €1.5 went into effect in #Greece on August 11. What's the reality today? One ATM charged €5.90, and another charged €3.49. The #Euronet ATM added the "Cash & Balance" scam on top of that.
@alatiera I thought the €1.5 cap was for third parties, but apparently not. But the problem isn't special to Greece. Some ATMs in Czechia charge up to €7 for withdrawal if you use a foreign card. It's sympathetic that there is a country which is trying to do something about it. So far I've been able to pay with a card almost everywhere. I wanted to withdraw some cash just in case.
if you are talking about greece, it doesn't try to do anything about it, the whole gov is buddies with the banks.
They only do perfomative things like putting a fine of 1/20th of what they make in overcharges and doing that in perpetuity pretending they tackled the issue.
Got charged 5,95 for 50Euro withdraval in Kurtort Oyibin, Germany. Accepting card payments is apparently too much to ask for in a tourist spot like this 🤯 #ddr
Jordan Petridis
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in reply to Jordan Petridis • • •So far I've been able to pay with a card almost everywhere. I wanted to withdraw some cash just in case.
Jordan Petridis
in reply to Jiří Eischmann • • •if you are talking about greece, it doesn't try to do anything about it, the whole gov is buddies with the banks.
They only do perfomative things like putting a fine of 1/20th of what they make in overcharges and doing that in perpetuity pretending they tackled the issue.
Jiří Eischmann
in reply to Jordan Petridis • • •Michal Vyskočil
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