Saturday January 04 2020, Michael Dukelsky wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:
MD>>> I don't understand why a debit card is better than a credit MD>>> card. A credit card has a PIN code either.
GK>> Credit cards work without the PIN code just as they did for GK>> decades.
MD> Really? H-m-m... Here they don't. Well, one can use it without a PIN MD> code if he pays not more than 1000 rubles, that's around 14 euro. And MD> this is the same with credit and debit cards. No difference.
Maybe you are talking about credit cards without a chip? Over here banks stopped isssuing such cards many years ago. My bank did it some 15 years ago if I remember it correctly.