visa electron + visa debit

often the electron card has only printed numbers not embossed.

Can be a problem if some places use manual machines as they can't get an impression :p
 
electron = rubbish and only accepted in limited places
Visa debit = accepted everywhere they accept visa, which is pretty much everywhere.
 
radderfire said:
According to the Visa website:

http://www.visaeurope.com/personal/choosing/thevisacardrange.jsp

Visa Electron is a card that requires all transactions to be electronically authorized – at both point-of-sale and Automated Teller Machine (ATM), or cashpoint.

Rgds
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Ah, I see. So with visa debit you have to be certain the money is in your account, because there isn't a check.

That actually sounds like a bad thing tbh. Not sure why people say electron is ****, most places accept it and it's safer for the person spending money (no chance of a nasty bank charge if the money isn't in your account when you use it).
 
I just had the cash machine suck in my visa debit :( only turned away for 5 seconds. Either that, or someone has very quick hands :( had to cancel my card and get a new one reissued :(
 
seek said:
That actually sounds like a bad thing tbh. Not sure why people say electron is ****, most places accept it and it's safer for the person spending money (no chance of a nasty bank charge if the money isn't in your account when you use it).
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But that's the thing, very few places accept it, that's why it's ****
 
Azagoth said:
I use an Electron card for all my online purchases, I've never had anywhere refuse it once.
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Perhaps it's changed recently then?. As I used to have one and it was the biggest waste of time ever. as no one accepted it. You could sometimes get away with it on;line, by just saying it's a visa.
 
Electron isnt as bad as it was. Quite a lot of places accept it now, but i've been meaning to change over to visa debt for awhile now though, as you never know when you might get caught out somewhere that doesn't accept it
 
AcidHell2 said:
But that's the thing, very few places accept it, that's why it's ****
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I've only just got a visa debit - I've had electron for years and in my experience everywhere that accepts visa debit also accepts electron. Both online and offline.

In fact I've NEVER known a single place to deny it, assuming they accept cards.
 
People act like it's the early 90's.
Big places accept all common cards. Smaller places accept all common cards if they have a chip + pin terminal.
I remember back in the day maybe some places didn't accept some cards but times have changed.

To say "hardly anywhere accepts it" is just silly.
 
I have both cards, and those who are saying the electron is not accepted are talking out their rear ends.

The only place I have ever encountered that wouldn't take it was Shell. Even now I think they do.
 
I used to have a Visa Electron a couple of years ago, and I did have problems in some shops getting them to accept it, which was the reason I switched to a Visa Debit. Now when I look, a lot more shops do accept it.
 
Shell have always been a nightmare as far as cards are concerned.
There was a whole scandal a few years back regarding them which is why they might take limited cards.
 
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