After a very frustrating experience with fraud prevention shutting off my CC in Paris, I called and very pointedly made sure they weren't going to fuck me again on my next trip. Day 2 in London, biggest Visa network outage in recent memory happened.
What was most surprising was how long it took some store clerks to flip their point of sale systems into queuing mode so that people could keep buying things. There was a period where we just went from shop to shop trying to buy the same thing until we found one that didn't decline the card.
What was most surprising was how long it took some store clerks to flip their point of sale systems into queuing mode so that people could keep buying things. There was a period where we just went from shop to shop trying to buy the same thing until we found one that didn't decline the card.