Surprise - after all those warnings from Amazon to say that Visa credit cards will no longer be accepted after 19th January they have changed their minds, at least temporarily.
I've just got an E-Mail saying that I can continue to use my Visa Credit card.
So, presumably, someone climbed down. :-)
This is what I got:
The expected?change regarding?the use of?Visa credit?cards?on Amazon.co.uk?will no longer take place on January 19. We are working?closely?with Visa on a potential solution?that will enable?customers to continue using their Visa credit cards?on?Amazon.co.uk.?
I guess because Jim has cornered the market on dots, Amazon has had to sell some spaces to make up the shortfall.
Yes I got that too, as I use a visa card for ordering at work. Be interesting to know what changed
This leaves me with a dilemma, do I hang on to the new Amazon (New Day) Mastercard, or bin it and go back to my ancient visa credit card.
For the avoidance of doubt, what kicked this off was a big hike by Visa in the UK cross-border transfer fee, which is capped by the EU for EU countries.
Let's not forget that the only way you could by tickets for the London Olympics was with a Visa Card.
They do have the facility for you to use more than one card. I do that to keep business purchases separate from personal ones.
There was never any reason to attend the London Olympics, so not having tickets would have been no loss.
cash & cheques were accepted
They were still planning on accepting Visa CCs on Amazon business accounts anyway...
that's a shame it would have stopped them signing me up for Prime every time I place an order.....
On an allied subject, although debit cards from Visa are not affected, when my card comes up for renewal, I was going to have to go MasterCard unless Visa adopt the accessible standard of MasterCard, as there will no longer be embossed numbers on it making it impossible to use by a blind person since orientation on a rectangular card will then be an impossibility. Brian
That is as maybe, but payment, if we are really wanting to go cashless has to be sorted out to be a level playing field for costs and also be accessible to all. The current rash of card readers around now employ touch screen keypad designs, which we blind people cannot use. Nobody seems to be watching the ball on electronic payments, so I am still using cash since its tactile and can be identified. I'm still a bit reticent to use mobile phones as cards by waving them near a reader, since accidents do happen at times, and often nowadays, you have to confirm on a touch screen anyway. Brian
No, they would have just assumed that you would use the account/card that you had presented for payment of the goods.
what?
Surely you can get a sighted helper to put some sort of feelable notch or dot on the cars so you know the orientation? Even different notches and dots to differentiate multiple cards? Be careful not to damage the aerial if it's contactless though.
That's presumably why my TSB Visa Debit card has a cut-out at one end as standard, since they changed to non-embossed numbers.
Can't think of any payment terminals that I've needed to use like that. Mostly I use them as contactless, if the amount is above the contactless limit or you've used contactless too frequently and it needs the PIN, they all seem to have physical keypads?
Even the small-trader devices (like zettle) that link to phones seem to have keypads.
I may have to add the old one back in, after a modest purchase they've just emailed me to say I'm getting close to the 2.4k limit on my NewDay.
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