Visa

Visa Electron Debit Card - Advantages: Reasonable acceptance in shops, Works as Visa credit card on U.S websites, Issued by most UK banks - Disadvantages: Low accecpance on UK websites

...or so they say! Anywhere, Anytime, Any Way. And Visa are probably right. An often big misconception is that Visa is a credit card company. They're not. Visa is an organisation owned by over 21,000 member financial companies (banks, building societies, credit unions etc) from around the world - unlike its biggest competitor MasterCard which is a corporation. Visa doesn't issue cards, its member organisations do and Visa provides a worldwide payment system. I have two Visa/Delta debit cards and a Visa credit card. The worldwide acceptance of Visa against ...

I work for a credit card issuer, and thought it would be beneficial to point out some facts to help you deal with your Visa credit card and disputed transactions. Some of the advice might be common sense, so I will apologise if I sound a little obvious with what I say. * My first piece of advice is always checking your statements (even if you're not spending on your card). So many people don't bother to check the spending and miss fraudulent or unexpected transactions, or irregularities. * Always contact your issuer if you spot something out of the ordinary. Each bank has different ways of dealing with disputes, but they all have stick ...