I think we've discussed this before, but I've heard that some Cambodian backs won't give you back a foreign ATM card even if they retrieve it from the machine. They say it's against the rules to return it to you or something like that.slavedog wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2019 11:58 amI can beat that: Had my Bangkok Bank card swallowed at Bangkok Bank, Siam Paragon in Bangkok. Walked inside the bank, spoke to cute girl, she grabbed a set of keys from her desk drawer, we walked outside, she asked me 'which machine?', I couldn't remember which one, fortunately my six-year-old son could, she opened it and handed me my card, signed in a book. All took no more than 5 - 10 minutes. It's why I always make a point of using the machines outside the bank when traveling, not the ones outside 7-11s, in train stations etc.
I did get one back from BIDC that was swallowed by one of their standalone ATM machines in BKK1.