No refueling and no water camping shop: difficult such a set up

Reijenga decided to try it at a next petrol station, five hundred meters away. "There, a woman came out who said in The Hague accent that I could not refuel there either, and then I had a hint of what was happening."

For Reijenga, the disturbance did not cause any major problems. "I was near my home and I will refuel tomorrow morning." Yet he finds it strange. "I was surprised that in 2018, the whole world could stay flat in the field of payment traffic, which obviously cost a lot of money."

Eating in Paris

The Dutch also encountered problems abroad. "We were eating in Paris and I wanted to pay, but it did not work," explains Thijs Verhoeven. "I tried my debit card and then my credit card at the restaurant and ATM, but nothing happened."

"The French were not the easiest, but we could explain that there was a fault in the Netherlands." Other guests of the Paris restaurant did not suffer from the malfunction. "There were only French, and they had a lot of money with them, I noticed."

"We ended up waiting for a moment." But when the fault lasted, they suggested to the restaurant that he should come back tomorrow to pay. "The bill was also included: 42. But he's still annoying."

Getting Water

For Remco Allertz who is on vacation in France with his wife and baby, the disturbance came at a very annoying time: his water was gone, he says. It 's only in the camping shop that Allertz noticed that the pins were no longer successful, nor did he have any money in his pocket. "We quickly heard about the application, a family from Canada could no longer pin money."

"Later we went to eat and hope we could pin it down later, if not we will have to wash. Allertz is left underneath, but also calls a wise lesson. "We are blindly trusting electronics, I will not do it next time."