Mastercard and Visa

ratttyo

I have a barclay card Gold and applied for a Mastercard. They have agreed but will transfer some of the credit limit from the Gold card to the Mastercard. Is there any advantages of having 2 cards with Barclaycard and is there any benefits of having a Mastercard as oppossed to a Visa card?

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ratttyo wrote: »

Is there any advantages of having 2 cards with Barclaycard

No, unless they are both 0% cards?

and is there any benefits of having a Mastercard as oppossed to a Visa card?

Not that I'm aware of. Maybe abroad but in the UK anywhere that takes Visa also takes Mastercard.

ratttyo

I travel around alot. Recently was in Brazil and there I had lots of problems with using VISA. My HSBC Mastercard was fine. But not the VISA card, some places over there it was ok but it was 50/50.

The UK takes just about any card in any shop? Even corner shops here will be excepting cards soon I reckon.

nomoneytoday

About 20 years ago our bank in France prefered Access instead of Visa, but now adays I think they are about the same. Either both are accepted or not. It's AmEx that shops don't seem to like...

jojo1978_3

ratttyo wrote: »

I travel around alot. Recently was in Brazil and there I had lots of problems with using VISA. My HSBC Mastercard was fine. But not the VISA card, some places over there it was ok but it was 50/50.

The UK takes just about any card in any shop? Even corner shops here will be excepting cards soon I reckon.

Ours already do, althogh they charge you 50p for the priviledge

Grahamo_3

I would agree with the other posts... mastercard and visa are pretty much six and half a dozen..the only other thing i could of was:


if there was a problem with one of the networks, for example: mastercard quite often send my company a list of cards which they believe to be compromised....we then must block without warning... leaving many people without a card for a few days... if it did happen you would still have the card on the other network. But the chances of being on a mastercrd alert list are kind of rare i guess!



Graham