Using abroad - credit or debit?

[nanos]

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But what I meant was more a bit general stuff: Why the difference? what are the differences between the various options? Out of my own personal curiosity more than anything else

Quoting myself, and reviving an old thread, I know …

But, it looks like someone finally shed some light on this, and I thought if someone ever come across this, and is interested:

Pay at Pump Fuel

You’re welcome. On US terminals, ALWAYS select ‘credit’ - credit means to run it over the major global network (e.g. Visa/MasterCard/Discover/Amex/etc) that the BIN corresponds to. Debit, on a US terminal, means to run it over a patchwork of US regional debit networks. By law in the US, all debit cards from major banks must support at least two non-affiliated networks. Generally, they support Visa or Mastercard (rarely Discover) - aka the ‘credit’ networks, plus a handful of the regional debit…

Super interesting!