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Originally Posted by BIG KAHUNA

Good morning full timers. The following question is from my better half. Earlier this morning i had a Minnesota firm not accept a credit card which is NEVER refused. Was that because of tighter fraud protection in Minn? To that end has anyone else experienced a similar situation in their travels?

Well first the business didn’t refuse your card, their Credit Card processing company refused your card, and could be for many reasons.
If they were using a dialup card reader, the connection could have failed or timed out.

The bank could have received garbled information.

I could go on and on, basically we make sure we carry several cards with different issuing banks just to advoid this.