![]() ![]() There can be interruptions in the international card networks that unfortunately happen at exactly the same time you attempt to use your card. Sometimes things happen and debit or credit cards simply don't work at a specific place and time. The opinion expressed just might not be the real reason the withdrawals did not work. The posting, not the lack of access to funds. I think that Wells Fargo customers need to be aware of this and need to protect themselves with support from another more reliable bank. I have asked Wells Fargo if they are going to warn other customers who might go abroad only to find that their card didn't work and they had no access to cash. Wells Fargo did not indicate what, if anything, they are doing to correct this and said that if " the customer has a Check Card, the international bank will assist with an over-the-counter cash disbursement." In other words, I will have to go into a bank during banking hours and wait in line as we used to have to do before ATMs came into effect. After much correspondence, Wells Fargo has said that "some international banks are not properly routing withdrawal request to Wells Fargo." To me this indicates that other banks have lost faith in Wells Fargo and are no longer doing business with it. I had plenty of cash in the bank and when I returned home it worked fine. On two recent trips, however - Colombia in early February 2019 and later that month Spain and France - it did not work. ![]() For more than a decade I've had a Wells Fargo debit card that worked flawlessly while traveling internationally. ![]()
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