Online transactions with credit cards.

Post #133,174

1/1/04 6:49:16 PM

I've just heard from a friend that some significant proportion of websites are not accepting Visa credit cards anymore. Details are extremely vague (something to do with Adult sites?). But since I acquired a Visa card for international purchases, it makes me a little worried.

Has anyone heard more? Has anyone seen problems accepting Visa?

Wade.

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Post #133,190

by tjsinclair

1/1/04 9:40:19 PM

Nothing at this end yet

I use my Visa (it's a check card, not credit, so that may be the difference) regularly at a few sites like Amazon and haven't had a problem.

Love to know more details, though.

Tom Sinclair

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Post #133,692

by bluke

1/5/04 3:51:26 PM

1/6/04 12:33:14 AM

Yes

I just tried to buy something online from a US merchant with my Visa card issued in Israel and I got an e-mail back saying that they are not accepting Visa or Mastercard's issued outside of the US, only American Express. The reason is that, for US cards they can match the billing address to what you entered, giving them some indication of whether it is your card, for foreign cards they cannot. A lot of smaller merchants have been bitten by fraud so they have stopped accepting the cards. I happen to have an American issued Visa as well so I don't have such a problem.

Edited by bluke Jan. 6, 2004, 12:33:14 AM EST

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Post #133,752

by lincoln

1/5/04 8:52:16 PM

Our back end processing

is doing just fine. No signs of Visa cutting back on the volume of transactions that they normally send us. But we'd never know if they increased the number of rejections before they send them down the line to us.

lincoln

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