debit cards (2 Viewers)

[ann post]

even with the arm and leg charges, they are cheaper mostly.

 

[Unicron]

Ryanair deliberately use the no fees attached to Visa Electron cards so they can advertise they do free flights.
Nobody actually uses them. It'll be the same with these pre-paid Mastercards.

Ryanair, and all airlines, have to include card-handling costs in their advertised price.
So, technically, if you have a Visa Electron card you could get a free flight. However nobody really has.

That's what you learn from Radio 4

I'm flying to ATP with them on Friday and before I checked in for the flight today I added a piece of checked in luggage to the booking. They charged me for adding the luggage but they didn't charge me a transaction fee for it which I thought was strange.

 

[nooleen]

I'd imagine their standard Visa charge which is €5 per traveller, per leg

if by leg you mean the things with feet on the ends, then yes, they charge €5/£5 per leg, per flight.

 

[Ferox13]

My Ma was bitching about this card from Ulster bank as it seems its not excepted in a lot of places she tryed..

 

[Goodbye]

What surprises me is that people get vexed by Ryanair. They are what they are.

I'm not vexed by ryanair, I just don't use them because they are a shower of cunts.

 

[Goodbye]

I'm not vexed by ryanair, I just don't use them because they are a shower of cunts.

Post of the year

 

[Gambra]

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[Gambra]

My Ma was bitching about this card from Ulster bank as it seems its not excepted in a lot of places she tryed..

Really? EVen if they couldn't take it as a debit card, it's a regular visa card.. We've been getting these into work for the last month or so and our system is the most useless set up ever (we couldn't take laser cards up until last year) but we can take these cards no bother.

 

[Ferox13]

Really? EVen if they couldn't take it as a debit card, it's a regular visa card.. We've been getting these into work for the last month or so and our system is the most useless set up ever (we couldn't take laser cards up until last year) but we can take these cards no bother.

Just the debit aspect of it - apprently they replaced her Laser card with it..I can't see how that'd work though.

 

[Gambra]

A laser card is a debit card though. The debit just means it's coming straight out of the bank account and not being billed to you later.

 

[Ferox13]

A laser card is a debit card though. The debit just means it's coming straight out of the bank account and not being billed to you later.

Yeah I know....

The story she told me was that her Laser was expired and they sent her the Ulster bank Visa debit card as a replacement.

She said a lot of places she went to couldn't take it..

 

[hotroc]

Does anyone think AIB will offer similar cards soon?

 

[nooleen]

i'm a finance retard but have i understood that you couldn't get debit cards from various irish banks before?

 

[IFF]

ryanair did announce they would accept prepaid mastercard's

from yesterday's irish times - http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/1201/1224259803813.html

 

[nlgbbbblth]

i'm a finance retard but have i understood that you couldn't get debit cards from various irish banks before?

just laser. Irish solution to Irish problem.