In Reply to: Cash, Credit Card, EFTPOS posted by Pieboy on Friday, 26. May 2006 at 19:48 Bali Time:
This is our 3rd trip and we have always taken cash and our visa debit card and used card on a few occasions. Last trip was in august/sept last year and used card for a couple of transactions and to withdraw cash from ATM no problems!! Untill this week. We were notified by our bank on Tue just gone that there was an attemt to use our card in Jakarta(twice) and this was for sums of $3,000 au and $2,500 au. The only reason transaction didn't go through was there was not enough funds in the account. My husband immediatly cancelled the card ( at the banks advice)
and we thought that we were now ok, but no, friday night we were $200 lighter due to another transaction going through again in Jakarta this time in a fashion house and a spa. Bank claims that even though card was cancelled, the transaction was already pending and thats why it went through. So now we have to dispute the transaction and wait approx 2 months for the money to be credited back. So the moral to this longish post is that We will only take cash with us In June, no cards at all.