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Ali_UK

Thought the programme was a total waste of licence payers money, shame on the BBC!

Well, I suppose it helps that I have just returned from a lovely long weekend in Girona, £20 return (all in, hand luggage only required so no extras, and I have a pre-pay electron card) - I met up with a friend from Glasgow - no way either of us could have bought a train ticket for that money! So I'm more than happy with Ryanair and will def be using them again!

stoneman

mystic_trev wrote: »

Stoneman - Electon's not a credit card it's a debit card and readily available in the UK. I got mine by opening up a Halifax easycash account, but there are many other ways of obtaining them.

I know in this country it is a debit card. The statment made by the reporter was that the debit card is not very popular here, and you can't get the credit card in the U.K. Love child was saying that he/she has an electron CC, making it sound as though the reporter was wrong to state that you can't get one, but he/she is in Poland. :wall:

PolishBigSpender

stoneman wrote: »

Just goes to show how O'leary's love child doesn't pay attention. He said the CC was not available in THIS country (meaning the U.K.)

But the debit variety is - and is in fact much easier to obtain than here (they don't come without a bank account, unlike in the UK).

Crikey, an Electron business CC, you must be a top earner in Poland:rotfl:

Actually, if you knew anything apart from your own wretched island, you'd know that Visa Electron being issued as a credit card is quite normal practice in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. It's certainly not a reflection of social status or wealth, unlike in the UK.

I have a personal Visa credit card, it really makes no difference in Poland what logo is on the card.

Bengt

Visa Electron is quite rare in Sweden (I have one from something similar to Global Cash) and all I have seen are debit cards, not credit cards.
There are Visa debit and credit cards too, but the credit cards are without the Electron brand.

melb

which wretched island can you possibly mean?

adouglasmhor

melb wrote: »

which wretched island can you possibly mean?

I took it he meant the Great Cumbrae, I went there a couple of years ago aand it was country and western weekend (I did not know when we jumped on the ferry), pensioners dressed as confederate officers and southern belles litening to Jim bloody Reeves. Hell on earth.

old_motters

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

Actually, if you knew anything apart from your own wretched island, you'd know that Visa Electron being issued as a credit card is quite normal practice in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. It's certainly not a reflection of social status or wealth, unlike in the UK.

Feel free to not bother visiting us or doing business with us if you feel our country is wretched.

ScottySmog

Looks like Mr O'Leary's going to get rid of fee free payments for Electron cards soon anyway - from the Ryanair website:

Visa Electron - As a special offer to Visa Electron card holders, Ryanair, for a limited period only, will not apply a Debit Card charge

benjus

ScottySmog wrote: »

Looks like Mr O'Leary's going to get rid of fee free payments for Electron cards soon anyway - from the Ryanair website:

Visa Electron - As a special offer to Visa Electron card holders, Ryanair, for a limited period only, will not apply a Debit Card charge

That's been there for months if not years. Once all passengers start using Electron and they stop making money on the card charges I guess they'll go out and look for another card that's both fairly uncommon (at least in some countries) and cheap for them to process.

Pollycat

Scottysmog
Benjus is right, that statement has been on the Ryanair website for a long, long time - years not months.