shopegg Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 hi can someone please tell me if the online shop accepts maestro? or is it just the everyday cards such as visa, or electron etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adriangill Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 (edited) Maestro is Mastercard isn't it? If so I think it should be fine as I always use Mastercard. There is one card type that won't work but I can't recall what...anyone? Edit: Just remembered - American Express won't work Edited January 12, 2011 by 1of2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yvie Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 Send your order through, I'll give it a go if it's got 16 digits on the front Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shopegg Posted January 12, 2011 Author Share Posted January 12, 2011 rite thanks yvie, its my sisters card as she lives in germany but il let her no Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Endless Fighter Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 oh, Germany, yeah... then Maestro and MAstercard are something different... our Maestro cards are our general bank account card where we can get money from the bank with, get accout infos with and can pay at the stores... but they're immediately charged to your account... while my mastercard is the typical credit card that collects everything I pay with it within a months and then takes it off my account once a month... let Yvie give it a try but it might nwo work... especially since she said it has to have 16 digits on the front and maestro cards have varying amounts of digits on the front, depending on bank, age of account and a lot of other stuff... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Queen_Sindel Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 German Maestro cards kind of work like UK debit cards. Not exactly the same, but that's the closest thing you'll find in the UK), and I *think* people have ordered with debit cards before. That's actually why I hadn't said anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xkleex Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 I've ordered all my tickets with a debit card and never had a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shopegg Posted January 13, 2011 Author Share Posted January 13, 2011 yeah i always use my visa debit card 4 my con tix, but if it doest work il just have to do it on myn, and wait 4 the money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adriangill Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 German Maestro cards kind of work like UK debit cards. Not exactly the same, but that's the closest thing you'll find in the UK), and I *think* people have ordered with debit cards before. That's actually why I hadn't said anything. Yep, I have ordered with debit cards before (sometimes my own ). I mistakenly thought that Maestro was a credit card. I have no idea what the American Express is or why it won't work though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Showmasters Admin Too Tall Posted January 13, 2011 Showmasters Admin Share Posted January 13, 2011 German Maestro cards kind of work like UK debit cards. Not exactly the same, but that's the closest thing you'll find in the UK), and I *think* people have ordered with debit cards before. That's actually why I hadn't said anything. Yep, I have ordered with debit cards before (sometimes my own ). I mistakenly thought that Maestro was a credit card. I have no idea what the American Express is or why it won't work though. Back in the day of Switch, my bank card said Maestro on the back as I could then use it in Europe as well as the UK. Now it's a Visa Debit which is good because it works fine in the USA, where as they didn't understand what Switch was. AMEX is an odd one. It's not Visa or Mastercard which most major credit cards are. It's a systems all of it's own and it's always charged the seller a higher % rate for using is than the Visa and Mastercard systems do, so most companies just don't take them. I used to have a company AMEX card to pay expences with, but soooo many times I'd end up paying with my own Visa because the restaraut or petrol station didn't take AMEX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyT Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Trusting wikipedia's entries for Maestro, Solo and Visa Electron, the big picture would seem to be Maestro is a multi-national debit card service owned by MasterCard. Within the EU and certain other countries, Maestro is MasterCard's main debit brand and is the equivalent of signature debit card which does not require electronic authorisation, similar to the Visa Debit card. In most other countries, Maestro is equivalent to a Visa Electron and is MasterCard's tertiary card. In the United Kingdom, the former Switch debit card system has been re-branded as Maestro. Visa Electron is a debit or credit card available across most of the world, with the exception of Canada, Australia, Ireland and the United States. The card was introduced by VISA in the 1980s and is a sister card to the Visa Debit card. The difference between Visa Electron and Visa Debit is that payments with Visa Electron require that all the funds be available at the time of transfer, i.e., Visa Electron card accounts may not be overdrawn. Visa Debit cards, on the other hand, allow transfers exceeding available funds up to a certain limit. Some online stores and all offline terminals (like on trains and aircraft) do not support Visa Electron because their systems cannot check for the availability of funds. The UK Maestro equivalent of a Visa Electron is a Solo card. In other words, within the UK, Maestro and Visa Debit cards do not require electronic authorisation, and can allow a degree of overdraft. Visa Electron and Solo cards do require the account to have the available funds, and for the bank to electronically confirm that the transaction can proceed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shopegg Posted January 14, 2011 Author Share Posted January 14, 2011 Trusting wikipedia's entries for Maestro, Solo and Visa Electron, the big picture would seem to be Maestro is a multi-national debit card service owned by MasterCard. Within the EU and certain other countries, Maestro is MasterCard's main debit brand and is the equivalent of signature debit card which does not require electronic authorisation, similar to the Visa Debit card. In most other countries, Maestro is equivalent to a Visa Electron and is MasterCard's tertiary card. In the United Kingdom, the former Switch debit card system has been re-branded as Maestro. Visa Electron is a debit or credit card available across most of the world, with the exception of Canada, Australia, Ireland and the United States. The card was introduced by VISA in the 1980s and is a sister card to the Visa Debit card. The difference between Visa Electron and Visa Debit is that payments with Visa Electron require that all the funds be available at the time of transfer, i.e., Visa Electron card accounts may not be overdrawn. Visa Debit cards, on the other hand, allow transfers exceeding available funds up to a certain limit. Some online stores and all offline terminals (like on trains and aircraft) do not support Visa Electron because their systems cannot check for the availability of funds. The UK Maestro equivalent of a Visa Electron is a Solo card. In other words, within the UK, Maestro and Visa Debit cards do not require electronic authorisation, and can allow a degree of overdraft. Visa Electron and Solo cards do require the account to have the available funds, and for the bank to electronically confirm that the transaction can proceed. oh thank u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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