Front page news for a while, the controversy only died down after the ROC Ministry of Foreign Affairs made a solemn protest, the Austrian minister of the interior made a sincere apology and the credit card company gave NT $ 4.5 million to the ROC's Consumer's Foundation.
後經我外交部嚴正抗議，奧地利內政部長慎重道歉，發卡銀行捐贈新台幣四百五十萬元給「消費者文教基金會」後，才結束紛爭。