Visa Debit Cards

txt3rob

which bank is the best to get one from as HSBC dont do them and its a pain to buy things online with solo.

YorkshireBoy

LTSB, A&L, Nationwide & Halifax offer Visa Debit cards, but why not upgrade to a Maestro card with HSBC?

M_Thomson

YorkshireBoy wrote: »

LTSB, A&L, Nationwide & Halifax offer Visa Debit cards, but why not upgrade to a Maestro card with HSBC?

It is much better to have a Visa Debit card. They have better acceptance worldwide.

txt3rob

M_Thomson wrote: »

It is much better to have a Visa Debit card. They have better acceptance worldwide.

my solo is a maestro as well buy it seems visa is the better aceppted online.

gt94sss2

Maestro is owned by Mastercard so should be accepted where the Mastercard sign is shown, as long as they accept debit cards.

Just as a Visa Debit card should be accepted where a Visa sign is shown.

Mastercard is more popular than Visa in Europe and Visa is more popular than Mastercard in North America - though Mastercard is growing a lot faster than Visa.

Regards
Sunil

boo_star

gt94sss2 wrote: »

Maestro is owned by Mastercard so should be accepted where the Mastercard sign is shown, as long as they accept debit cards.

Just as a Visa Debit card should be accepted where a Visa sign is shown.

Mastercard is more popular than Visa in Europe and Visa is more popular than Mastercard in North America - though Mastercard is growing a lot faster than Visa.

Regards
Sunil

I Disagree,

You can generally use any Visa card (Electron/Delta/Credit) as Visa any place in the world (particularly Internet sites)

You cannot do the same thing for Solo/Maestro. It will not be accepted as Mastercard since Mastercard starts 5 and Solo/Maestro 6.

All Visa cards start with 4.

It is far better to have a Visa debit card than a Mastercard one.

d123

boo_star wrote: »

I Disagree,

You can generally use any Visa card (Electron/Delta/Credit) as Visa any place in the world (particularly Internet sites)

You cannot do the same thing for Solo/Maestro. It will not be accepted as Mastercard since Mastercard starts 5 and Solo/Maestro 6.

All Visa cards start with 4.

It is far better to have a Visa debit card than a Mastercard one.

I agree, I use 18866 for cheap calls, just had to change payment method with them because the don't accept Maestro anymore. (strangely they had no problem when it was Switch).

When I was in Cyprus my Maestro card was always looked at funny before being swiped while Visa was accepted without a second glance.

bargains83

Nowhere I have been in Europe accepts Mastercard and not Visa, its generally either both or neither. Coupled with the fact that Visa debit cards are accepted anywhere where you see the Visa symbol, and maestro isn't accepted under the maestro symbol leads me to believe that Visa is the better card period.

txt3rob

i've just had the KB for a switch card as new job and poor crddit rating and i have no monthly outgoings.

i've got a natwest account i might pop in and see them about it and as i've never used it!

joeh

i lost my maestro from hsbc this week :mad: however, i recieved a letter in the post to say my account will be upgraded as im soon 18. So i rang them about 5 mins ago, and the lady said the card coming would be a visa debit card! :T

Morn

Just so you know, HSBC are now issuing Visa Debit rather than maestro so you can choose them as long as you qualify for it.