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Where I am (EU) Google does not, last time I checked. Debit Card from Visa or Mastercard? Why.. would you do that? The debit card I know (and I assume that's w

Where I am (EU) Google does not, last time I checked. Debit Card from Visa or Mastercard? Why.. would you do that? The debit card I know (and I assume that's what the GP talks about) is from your bank. Works fine everywhere in the EU, breaks for crappy online services/US centric payment solutions. Heck, Paypal uses my account just fine and doesn't require a CC.

andypants 13y ago
Google accepts my UK debit card, and I've never had problems using it online. > Debit Card from Visa or Mastercard? Why.. would you do that? What do you mean? The bank-issued debit cards you are talking about may also be Visa or Mastercard debit cards.
- darklajid 13y ago
  Hmm.. Interesting. After years of having a 'Maestro' supported card I learned _now_ that this is handled by Mastercard. But .. usually that's still not accepted online. My latest card (got it for 2 month or so) lists VPay (aka Visa) now. That said, before I got the card I haven't seen VPay anywhere, at all - and I still don't know why I'd want that, if I care and if THAT now works online, in a decent way. So I guess all my cards so far were technically Mastercard backed - but still utterly useless online.
nknighthb 13y ago
"Credit cards" are also issued by banks. Visa and Mastercard are just brands and payment networks, not financial institutions themselves. For a long time now (better part of 20 years?) US banks have commonly issued debit cards that can also be used as if they were Visa- or Mastercard-branded credit cards. They come out of the same number space and have little Visa or Mastercard logos on them. The transactions pass through the same networks using the same infrastructure, it's just that when they land at your bank, the number being adjusted is the balance on your checking account, rather than the balance on a revolving line of credit.
- darklajid 13y ago
  Thanks for the explanation. The debit cards I know list your account number (local to the bank) and certainly doesn't follow the format of CC numbers. You can see a very real example on the Maestro page of Wikipedia [1]. I'm with a related bank, my card is very similar to that one. Over here the debit card is usually called 'EC card' (see the logo on the image, plus [2]) and you can pay with it ~everywhere~ (stores, restaurants, parking spots - whereever you expect to pay with a card 90% of the time that's working with these. The 10% are crap, newish and .. want a cc). 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maestro_(debit_card) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maestro_(debit_card) 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_cash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_cash

andypants 13y ago

Google accepts my UK debit card, and I've never had problems using it online. > Debit Card from Visa or Mastercard? Why.. would you do that? What do you mean? The bank-issued debit cards you are talking about may also be Visa or Mastercard debit cards.

darklajid 13y ago
Hmm.. Interesting. After years of having a 'Maestro' supported card I learned _now_ that this is handled by Mastercard. But .. usually that's still not accepted online. My latest card (got it for 2 month or so) lists VPay (aka Visa) now. That said, before I got the card I haven't seen VPay anywhere, at all - and I still don't know why I'd want that, if I care and if THAT now works online, in a decent way. So I guess all my cards so far were technically Mastercard backed - but still utterly useless online.

nknighthb 13y ago

"Credit cards" are also issued by banks. Visa and Mastercard are just brands and payment networks, not financial institutions themselves. For a long time now (better part of 20 years?) US banks have commonly issued debit cards that can also be used as if they were Visa- or Mastercard-branded credit cards. They come out of the same number space and have little Visa or Mastercard logos on them. The transactions pass through the same networks using the same infrastructure, it's just that when they land at your bank, the number being adjusted is the balance on your checking account, rather than the balance on a revolving line of credit.

darklajid 13y ago
Thanks for the explanation. The debit cards I know list your account number (local to the bank) and certainly doesn't follow the format of CC numbers. You can see a very real example on the Maestro page of Wikipedia [1]. I'm with a related bank, my card is very similar to that one. Over here the debit card is usually called 'EC card' (see the logo on the image, plus [2]) and you can pay with it ~everywhere~ (stores, restaurants, parking spots - whereever you expect to pay with a card 90% of the time that's working with these. The 10% are crap, newish and .. want a cc). 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maestro_(debit_card) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maestro_(debit_card) 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_cash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_cash