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Why won't they accept credit/debit?

• londons_explore 3y ago
  Germans prefer bank direct payments for recurring things. I think the fees are ~0 for the business too.
• dathinab 3y ago
  there are many different places selling this tickets all having their own payment systems and in turn some might have constraints others do not have for practical reasons generally it's the 49€-ticked designed as a long term plan (through cancel-able monthly) focused on residents and the most common way to handle this in Germany (and most other EU states) is through SEPA Direct Debit Mandates which requires you to have a bank account compatible with it, which _pretty much any bank in the EU does_! (SEPA == Single Euro Payments Area) The reason this doesn't work with a credit system is that many EU citizens do not have credit cards, but pretty much all have a bank account which is SEPA. Similar many places selling chip card require an address, so that they can send you new revisions of the card, billing info if needed etc. and at least in Germany any citizen is required to have one official address so not really any relevant limitation for the target customer audience. But nothing of this is required to be done, e.g. if you buy through an app payments might go through google pay or apple pay. Generally don't expect to be able to pay with a US credit card in the EU, it often does work but there is absolutely not guarantee it will work and card payment not accepting credit cards is common (might change in the near future). I mean it's a bit strange to say this because not always being able to use your home countries payment cards aboard is pretty much normal for pretty much most of the world.