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I spent the past three days trying to buy a conference ticket. My card wouldn't get accepted, my bank was being incompetent and unhelpful, claiming they weren't seeing any charges pop up.

I didn't even think of it until your post, yet I was still involved in this not five hours ago. When you look back, it's surprising the amount of artificial shit we have to sift through with CCs.

This. I tried buying a pair of flight tickets from a German airline Condor with a US credit card. What a hassle, in the end I had to call the bank, get redirected and verified 4 times (because they don't pass the verification along when they redirect your call) and I was finally able to pay for the damn tickets when they "pre-authorized" the transaction.

Yep! Booked an international flight last summer and had a hell of a time paying with a credit card. It seems like BTC will really shine on these non-domestic payments.

I have bought several flights through cheapair.com using bitcoin