MSE News: Visa outage across Europe leaves shoppers struggling to pay 1 June 2018 at 5:41PM edited 30 November -1 at 1:00AM in Credit Cards 38 replies 5.4K views

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Shoppers have been struggling to pay for goods due to a major Visa outage which has affected transactions across Europe...

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'Visa outage across Europe leaves shoppers struggling to pay'

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stclair

That makes sense my card kept declining in McDonalds earlier.

Browntoa

Apparently they just moved their banking to the TSB

jackieblack

Well that explains why I got an email from Amazon this afternoon saying the payment had been declined on an order I'd just made. I think(hope) it's gone through at the second attempt...

capital0ne

Radio 5 Live says check your statements, some declined debits have made it through to your account - as someone above said, it's been processed by TSB!

I've also heard that it's a massive hack but the banks will never admit that.

LukasD

I wonder if this Russian hackers could delete my debts? I would very appreciate.
On the serious note it only shows that is very good idea to always have some cash.

HornetSaver

I was in a supermarket earlier, and its cash machines were empty. The next nearest ones are quite a distance away.

The hassle that shop assistants were getting was atrocious. In many cases from those old enough to know from a previous bad experience that it's always wise to have a backup plan, and in all cases from those old enough to know better.

glider3560

capital0ne wrote: »

Radio 5 Live says check your statements, some declined debits have made it through to your account - as someone above said, it's been processed by TSB!

TSB show all authorisations under the "Pending Transactions" section, whether a payment was made or not. It will disappear in a few days.

Robisere

I always pick up my grandson on Mondays and Fridays from his workplace. Today, as I often do on Fridays, I took him to Morrison's for groceries and his TSB card was declined. Rather than have a go at the checkout girl, he asked her to hold the items and went to the in store ATM, which was working and had cash.


There were a few others giving the staff grief, but the large Security guy calmed them down. How can these idiots blame poorly-paid "Sharp End" staff for something that is totally beyond their control? The prevalent attitudes today consist of entitlement and blame.

molerat

Not only do I ensure I have more than one card in my wallet I also keep both Visa and Mastercard.

Ectophile

I was in Aldi this afternoon. All the checkouts just stopped, with the queues getting longer and longer. Now I know why.


Luckily, they opened a checkout for cash only when they realised what was happening.