"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> a écrit dans le message de 
news:4ad3aa86@news.povray.org...
> It's probably a card that looks like a credit card to the routing network, 
> but which the bank treats as withdraws.

If it's in the Netherlands like in France, people call them credit cards but 
the official term is indeed debit card, and that's what most people have 
here: true credit cards are almost unheard of. During the financial crisis, 
I kept reading about Americans juggling with credit cards and getting into 
debt, which was very confusing to me: with my "credit card" I just can't 
withdraw more money than I have in my account. It took a short trip to 
Wikipedia to understand what was going on, but it was funny to discover that 
this "little" difference leads to different lifestyles, money-wise.

G.

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