Charge/debit card, no issue number?

[Helen Deborah Vecht]

Roger Hunt typed

No. I do not do any internet banking and use credit and debit cards for (mainly trivial) online purchases.

[Roger Hunt]

In article , Helen Deborah Vecht writes

Being able to buy little things from the other side of the Wurld, so easily, is a treat. The last thing here was Gold leaf from Thailand, which I could not resist.

[Helen Deborah Vecht]

Roger Hunt typed

Buying just the right 'coin' type battery (of which the chap at Maplin had never heard) and getting it in the post 36 hours later was wonderful...

[Roger Hunt]

In article , Helen Deborah Vecht writes

It is. And it is even better when the local post-droid is brilliant and I can warn him when something's due and I won't be in etc, so don't bother bringing the parcel out, I'll collect it, and so on. (I couldn't remember why I was subscribed here until I remembered that I'd already done the fix some time ago, with a bit of coat-hanger wire.)

[Owain]

It's difficult to remember what life was like Before Internet

I used to think posting an order to Maplin on Monday and getting the goods on Friday or Saturday was wonderful...

Owain

[Andy Hall]

It has certainly had the effect in many cases of improving customers' expectations of service and suppliers having to do something in order to compete.

Considering the traditional UK apathy to good service, this is long overdue. The bricks and mortare retailers are really trading on the borrowed time of people coming up to speed with using computers and the internet and their expectations taking time to change. Give it another 10 years, and I expect that we will have seen a huge shake up in the retail and service industries.

[Helen Deborah Vecht]

Owain typed

I remember that. Maplin has a shop which I can reach in less than 10 minutes on my cripmobile (which has a maximum speed of 4mph). Their website is good for checking if the item I want is in stock before I venture out though.

[Andy Hall]

You could always get one of their orange flashing lights and pretend it's one of the 8mph ones..... :-)

[manatbandq]

I used my virgin One Maestro card only yesterday and there was no issue (number or problem). I have *never* had a card with an issue number and it has *never* caused a problem.

MBQ