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Originally Posted by bandhphoto
Entirely understandable
Thank you.
As of this moment, no. The credit card must originate in the same country as your residence. That said, we've recently begun a new initiative to ease transactions for our non-USA customers. The person heading that initiative and I have an excellent rapport and he's been brought up to speed on your situation and the ramifications for all our customers, particularly those of the EU.
I cannot dispute that but I do know this is the first time I've been confronted with this situation. While I am not privy to every customer's transactions it's likely I'd have heard about this from others in your situation before now if this was a frequently occurring difficulty.
That said, we appreciate the world is changing in many ways and we have to be able to accomplish dual, often seemingly contrary, tasks. Among those are easing the path for you to shop here while simultaneously continuing to deter credit card fraud and identity theft to the best of our abilities.
Henry Posner
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I am french, lived in Germany for 20 years, and moved now to the Costa del Sol in the south of Spain. In the town where I now live I am surrounded by Brits, Germans, Dutch, Swedes, Danes and so on. We all have our accounts in our country of origin, and only transfer amounts from time to time to our spanish accounts, without spanish credit cards. Why ?
As foreigners very often not earning our money in Spain but in another european country, the spanish banks expect us to "park" a specific blocked amount (around 3.000 €) on their accounts to act as a "security" in order to grant us a credit card, independently from the transfers being done from time to time (monthly for me) from our other european accounts.
Even a monthly transfer from my German account of a consequent sum does not give them the "security" they need, they would rather have me earning money in Spain and having my salary transferred monthly on my spanish account, even if that would be much less than the amount I transfer every month. How crazy is that ???
I won't even go there, because it annoys me to millions, but that's the fact. So here I am, living in Spain, with a german credit card, and a french passport. My money has been earned very legally, and amazon, pixmania, and many others are more than willing to accept it and send me the goods to Spain. Why won't you ?