MSE News: London 2012 Olympics tickets not available on Mastercard

keet83

what happens when we go abroad and visa cards are not accepted, only mastercards? i have had that problem before now. just because of the visa sponsorship you cant buy olympic tickets, doesn't mean mastercard has to be taken out of existence.

Yankee_Bravo

I think this is totally disgusting - the olympics is "supposedly" about friendly competition and the fact the IOC & the London committe have allowed a commercial competition to use the Olympics like this is gross. What next? I know how about different nations refuse to compete against each other because they don't get along ... If the Americans and Iranians can get into the spirit so can Visa - SHAME ON YOU!!!

Paul_Herring

keet83 wrote: »

what happens when we go abroad and visa cards are not accepted, only mastercards?

You pay using Mastercard. Or cash.

keet83

i had a flex account at the time which is a visa, however if i couldn't withdraw money or use it as payment card, what do i do? it was back in 2005 when it was free with no charge and i didn't have a mastercard at the time.
however, i now have both a visa credit card and matercard credit card just incase as i am going back in july/august time.
they are mainly to help me build a strong credit score for a mortgage in the next year or so.

Paul_Herring

however if i couldn't withdraw money or use it as payment card, what do i do?

If you couldn't withdraw money, then you'd be rather stuffed, and others would wonder why you went so unprepared.

Don't equate lack of acceptance at a shop with lack of acceptance at an ATM or a bank.

I await the "what if they don't have banks" question next...

bob_a_builder

This alternative olympic logo rather sums the whole thing up

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/23/olympics_logo/

keet83

3 weeks worth of money being carried around in a bag isn't a good thing to do anywhere, especially whilst in a foreign country. its much safer inbetween 4 walls than in a pocket. i did have some money with me, however i decided to not take £1000 worth to carry around. choice of travellers checks or a debit card, sensible option is a debit card. it was in lethbridge where i came across this problem, eventually finding a machine that would except it, vancouver and calgary was fine.

Hazzanet

By the same token, as Lloyd's TSB is a sponsor, will they only be accepting Lloyd's TSB Visa cards?

System

what a useless article! (expect for the typos :beer:)

basically register for spam from the olympics, no promise of tickets. you may as well be living under a rock if you will miss the announcement of when they go on sale.

edda

punkrjb wrote: »

basically register for spam from the olympics.

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Don't know why they can't just ask for an email address. What relevance is date of birth, gender or even address at this stage?