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[sunshine_queen]

Mystery of the bank solved! Apparently I can only withdraw 300 euros per week. Luckily some dude at the bank could approve me taking out the rest of the money I needed for rent/the money I wanted to take to Strasbourg/buy groceries with

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[yubsie]

That seems... oddly low, especially for a weekly limit.

[sunshine_queen]

Yeah, I have no idea what that's about.

[yubsie]

I have a daily limit of $1000, but I've never heard of a weekly limit that won't even cover the rent.

[sunshine_queen]

IDK, man! I've never heard of this. It was weird because I knew I had the money, but I couldn't get it.

[yubsie]

The idea is probably that if your bank card and PIN were stolen, the thief wouldn't be able to immediately drain your account. You might be able to talk to the bank about upping the limit a little so you can pay your rent without having to actually go in to a teller in the future though.

It's always unsettling when the machine just randomly won't give you the money. It happened to me once when I'd used my card at a machine that was found to be compromised so they froze it... except they called my house in London when I was at my parents' place for Christmas, so I had no idea until I went in to ask why my card suddenly wasn't working anywhere.

[sunshine_queen]

Yeah, I understand that part, and they are SUPER CRAZY SERIOUS about theft here, which is a double edged sword in my life. The good news is, this probably won't happen, because I'm paying for two months' rent right now, and I'll know for the future not to do two months at once again.

I am glad I found this out this week and not next week, when I'm taking money out of my account so I'll have some in the states when I go home!

[yubsie]

Yeah, it's good that they're looking out for that, but definitely a bit annoying when you legitimately need that much cash at once. My brother had to get the bank to up his limit so he could actually buy all his textbooks at the same time.