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Oct 9, 2012 -- 7:03PM, wisewords wrote:
hey lads, i'm seething. i was at the petrol station and was using one of those self service machines, it rejected my card twice. so i had to ring 118118 because my card was blocked by the bank because of betting sites
yea i get that every week

Oct 9, 2012 -- 7:40PM, qwertyuiopasd wrote:
still no goal.... @wisewords my card got blocked when i went to visit the in-laws.... because i was using it in london rather than N.wales, they decided to block it as the usage was abnormal..... i found out when i was paying for a meal we've all had... i look like i right toss, i was well and truely pee'd when i found out!! lucky i had a credit card!
And again, my credit card company didn't do that when someone bought a meal in middle America at some restaurant I'd never heard of.
I do have a debit card and generally just withdraw cash from a machine as and when. When I used c cards it did actually begin to feel it was an intrusion on privacy when a company knew where you were and when most of your life. Probably nothing sinister in it but I remember once they phoned me for a security check and I had to tell them the last 3 times I had used the card, I gave them the answer and the woman on the phone said "you've been travelling a bit" and I thought why the f should she know my movements
Oct 9, 2012 -- 7:50PM, Darlo Bantam wrote:
Oct 10, 2012 -- 1:40AM, qwertyuiopasd wrote:still no goal.... @wisewords my card got blocked when i went to visit the in-laws.... because i was using it in london rather than N.wales, they decided to block it as the usage was abnormal..... i found out when i was paying for a meal we've all had... i look like i right toss, i was well and truely pee'd when i found out!! lucky i had a credit card!And again, my credit card company didn't do that when someone bought a meal in middle America at some restaurant I'd never heard of.
maybe they thaught you were getting a take away...
Oct 9, 2012 -- 8:01PM, themover wrote:
VISA is a separate company
http://www.bizjournals.com/eastbay/stories/2006/10/09/daily23.html
Oct 9, 2012 -- 8:19PM, qwertyuiopasd wrote:
visa is a company primeraly owned by banks
Depends which VISA you refer to. VISA Inc is publicly listed on NYSE. VISA Europe Ltd as you say is owned primarily by banks. VISA Europe Ltd shareholders : VOLKSWAGEN BANK GMBH, BANCA POPOLARE DI LANCIANO E SULMONA SPA, BANCAPULIA SPA, CASSA CENTRALE BANCA CREDITO COOPERATIVO DEL NORD EST SPA, CASSA DI RISPARMIO DEL VENETO SPA, CASSA DI RISPARMIO DI FIRENZE SPA-BANCA CR FIRENZE SPA, CASSA DI RISPARMIO DI PARMA E PIACENZA SPA, CASSA DI RISPARMIO DI PISTOIA E PESCIA SPA, RAIFFEISEN LANDESBANK SUEDTIROL A.G.-CASSA CENTRALE RAIFFEISEN DELL'ALTO ADIGE SPA, UNICREDIT TIRIAC BANK SA, ALPHA BANK ROMANIA, BANCA DI PIACENZA
BANCA MONTE PARMA SPA, UNICREDIT BANK SLOVAKIA A.S.