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- From: frankred@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Martin Redington)
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: Credit cards - Visa vs. MasterCard (aka Access)
- Message-ID: <12461@scott.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 20:59:24 GMT
- References: <6527@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
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- In article <6527@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk> zzatsjl@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Janusz Lukasiak) writes:
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- >Has anybody encountered a retailer who refused, say, a Visa and
- >accepted Access or vice versa ? I'm talking about some kind of
- >realistic situations
- >(e.g. shops, restaurants, travel agents, hotels in Europe and USA), I'm not
- >bothered by what'll do nicely at a crocodile farm in Upper Patagonia.
-
- Actually when I was in South America, Access/Mastercard had very little
- use, whereas Visa were pretty commonplace, I think. This was so even in
- Lima and Rio. Of course, this was 5 years ago, so their market
- penetration may have considerably advanced since then....
-
- >Janusz Lukasiak
- >zzatsjl@uk.ac.mcc.uts (Janet) | Manchester Computing Centre
-