I did a bit of googling and found that China UnionPay has a page at the link below where you can select your country and find some information that might be of use, including a support hotline. The "Merchant Search" functionality was useless for me (partially translated, no results), but there's a decent summary in the "Tips" section
http://en.unionpay.com/englobalization/list_englobalization.html
As far as I'm concerned, being in Switzerland, it appears the only merchants where I'd be able to use a UnionPay card would be located in tourist destinations (Luzern, Interlaken, Geneva,...) where chinese clients like to buy their watches and other luxury items; litlle hope for buying groceries or fuel, as I was planning to.
One piece of information I would need from our friendly ANX guys in the forum is with regard to the ANX Plus monthly fee: https://anxbtc.com/pages/#/card-compare states "Free for first 12 months" under the heading "Monthly fee", but I'm unable to see how much will this monthly fee be after 12 months.
First off, sorry about this union pay problem!
To answer your question, agtrt the first 12 months with an active ANX plus card, the fee will be 5 HKD pet month, which is a bit below $1 USD. Hope this helped!
Cheers
Monbux
Just got myself yet another useless piece of plastic from ANX...
My ANX Premium card issued by Sura Global arrived in the mail last week, it's indeed a MasterCard, BUT it does not have the EMV Chip (aka Chip and PIN in the UK), which is required by the vast majority of POS in Europe, so, as with my ANX Plus card, I'm stuck with getting raped with ATM's fees.
I would also like to to point out that I was asked to e-mail the PIN of my card to ANX to activate it, which is a shady, unsafe practice, especially considering that it's not possible to change this PIN.
Hi calagan,
I understand your situation, and I'm sorry about that. I comprehend the frustration that you must be going through, and I will forward this information to see if we can get better cards that have a Chip.
In the meantime, what you could do is use that card for online purchases.
Thanks,
byt411