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visa - mastercard
enigma2
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in Credit cards
can someone tell me the difference between via and mastercards?
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Hello
Virtually no difference between them. Both are accepted at over 20million outlets worldwide.
You will normally find that where a company accepts one card, they will accpet the other
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Two different companies that facilitate card transactions. Very little between them but I suspect VISA is accepted in more places that Mastercard.0
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There is a big difference in the Debit cards though - you get the same protection as any credit card with Visa, nothing with Mastercard/Switch/Maestro.0
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In the UK/Europe/USA there is no difference but when you go to asia/scandanavia etc sometimes one card is accepted over others:santa2:0
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If you do any gambling with cards (obviously only risk-free gambling though!), you would probably want to go with a Visa card, MC have some very strict rules on using cards for gambling.0
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