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Striker
Slightly different system over there as they swipe your card, you sign the bill and add on a tip and then they sort the final amount out. Literally everywhere ive been in the USA in the last decade let's you do this.
Withdrawing money in the USA
- Thread starter LondonBlackCat
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Slightly different system over there as they swipe your card, you sign the bill and add on a tip and then they sort the final amount out. Literally everywhere ive been in the USA in the last decade let's you do this.
The Albanian
Winger
Yeah that was my impression too. America is very different to Europe when if comes to using cards. Not sure I’d be letting someone wander off with mine again
LondonBlackCat
Winger
Tipping in bars for one.
I'd say 95%
I drew $60 out of an ATM about 6 months ago. It's still in my wallet.
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luvulongtime
Striker
at least you've got cash in your wallet to pacify a mugger unless of course you're out with the wife who'd just smoke the bastard with her .357 colt python
Hulkster
Striker
It's a weird system, nothing stopping them adding a 1 on the front of your tip is there?
Although when we got back last time I could've sworn none of the tips were actually taken at all!
SYB_DC
Winger
You can tip on the card and it's seen as slightly weird to tip in cash when you're using the card. For other things, $20 - which is what ATMs (cashpoints) dispense - is usually too big a tip.
All of them except fast food. As in, even takeout restaurants have them. When it prints out the bill to sign, there's a line to add the tip.
The customer gets a copy of the receipt. The penalties for fraud are pretty heavy and credit cards send you an automatic alert if the tip is large relative to the bill. You'd be looking at jail time for adding $100.
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Darlo1973
Striker
And they never check the signature. You could sign Mickey Mouse for all they care.
