Before leaving for any foreign country, you should make sure your credit cards are notated to be valid for use in that country.

HOWEVER, WaMU decided to red flag the cards for fraud anyway.

These are the prices for talking to their customer service line from a phone booth in Paris.

Note that during the first call, they put my friend on hold, then eventually hung up on her.

The second is about 10 minutes of arguing with the customer service rep who insisted they didn’t have a supervisor on duty.