Anybody else not able to get Ryanair cashcard?

tazo101

Am i being paranoid that Mr Leary doesnt want me to have a cashcard?
Is anybody else having problems getting it. Its not my credit rating as I just got the (you WILL still pay the fees ) Ryanair credit card?

MarkBargain

I read on here lots of people are having problems, especially using the Firefox browser. Perhaps Ryanair would rather you give up and pay the £6/£12 per person fees.

Steve_xx

I can't understand why anyone would want one of these cards given the onerous fee structure.

tazo101

Hmm is that in the ryanair sticky, got to the 20th page and gave up!
Tried in different browsers aswell, Well as much as i love saving money and used Ryanair for years thats it, not paying the fee.
Dont mind fees everyone has a choice but when you know there is a way to avoid them but cant.............. that I cant do, its like paying a thief to return your stuff!

ferf1223

forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=3529323

MarkBargain

tazo101 wrote: »

Hmm is that in the ryanair sticky, got to the 20th page and gave up!
Tried in different browsers aswell, Well as much as i love saving money and used Ryanair for years thats it, not paying the fee.
Dont mind fees everyone has a choice but when you know there is a way to avoid them but cant.............. that I cant do, its like paying a thief to return your stuff!

Yep, how on earth they are allowed to get away with it is beyond me. It's time the government banned charges for debit card payments, that would put an end to it.

joinaman

Thought it was just me struggling to get one of these cards
3 days, numerous e mails, photcopies of bills/passport, filiing in extra forms and still waiting.
He really does not want anyone to get one of these cards without working for does he
don;t really want to get one, but neither do I want to pay the £12 a flight extra, especially when there are a few of us flying each time
Ahhh well, see what else they want me to do, scan, sign, beg crawl, etc, etc before I finally get one

2sides2everystory

Can I ask why you think you need one of these things?

For the last few years I have averaged about two dozen Ryanair flights a year (used to be more when they had really cheap flights).

I am not bothering with one of their cards and I am not bothering to pay Ryanair card admin fees. I still pay fee free with Mastercard Prepaid on the route where I can now play my own game rather than that silly man Michael's games.

Whilst I was working out what to do (and I have now worked it out) the price of my first and only UK card admin fee outbound flight dropped first by £4 then by another £2

So eventually I bought it, not as a return but as a single, and paid the fee - just this once mind. The fee just happened to correspond with the amount of discount Ryanair had to offer me to tempt me finally to buy it :rotfl:

Had there been no new card fee I'd have bought this flight weeks ago at the higher price
With all the mucking about and uncertainty this outfit has created, they've had to reduce the prices to reflect the fact that people like me were not booking predictably any more :rotfl:

Anyway, all my future flights on the route I use most regularly will be returns - but starting from the other end so to speak. So still no card fee for me when using Mastercard Prepaid. I just happen to have Mastercard Prepaids in two currencies so no FOREX worries either.

OFT & CAA might one day next year get their finger out and sort out Ryanair, but meantime I think my two fingers are the ones which count.

Suck it up Ryanair!

SaveTheEuro

2sides2everystory wrote: »

Can I ask why you think you need one of these things?

For booking single flights from the UK? If there are two of you travelling it saves £12 every time.

2sides2everystory

SaveTheEuro wrote: »

For booking single flights from the UK? If there are two of you travelling it saves £12 every time.

Not if both of you wait until they have to drop the price to sell the tickets it doesn't, plus you have completely failed to mention the inconvenience of trying to get one of these cards or the fact you need to load it with a minimum of £150 each time (£156 first time) plus the fact that any FOREX is charged at an extortionate rate and in just over three months time you'll have to pay a surcharge on each transaction to spend your own money ... I could go on ...

Do remember Ryanair would prefer to sell something approaching 189 seats per aircraft - if there were 189 of you then I see your point, or if you were planning on spending more than £150 perhaps and could be sure the price you planned to pay would still be available by the time you had jumped through all the necessary hoops and got Ryanair to issue you with a card, but in most cases you may as well just wait a bit longer till they drop the prices by the amount they first thought of as a card admin fee and the simply book (singles only of course) and save yourself the hassle of applying for their silly card.

Oh, and while you wait, you might just find yourself a better deal with another carrier

SaveTheEuro

2sides2everystory wrote: »

in most cases you may as well just wait a bit longer till they drop the prices by the amount they first thought of as a card admin fee and the simply book (singles only of course) and save yourself the hassle of applying for their silly card.

Even if you wait and the price drops don't you still save £12 on the lower fare by using the card?