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Is there such a thing as an Irish Maestro card?

  • 25-08-2016 10:05pm
    #1
    tea and coffee
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    or is it a purely continental phenomenon?


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  • #2
    BuffyBot
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    We used to have them, in the form of Laser.

    They've been replaced by Visa Debit/Debit Mastercard. Maestro as a system is generally disappearing.


  • #3
    GerardKeating
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    tea and coffee wrote: »
    or is it a purely continental phenomenon?

    Maestro is not purely a "continental phenomenon", they used them in the UK, but the UK Domestic Maestro scheme is not fully compatible with International Maestro.


  • #4
    tea and coffee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,836 ✭✭✭tea and coffee


    Thanks! really not sure how this got into the Gaeilge forum!
    Blast anyway. Website looking for a 50 euro pp charge unless I pay with Maestro. even visa debit isn't good enough :-( It's a mainland EU site, hence my thinking that it was an EU thing


  • #5
    anothernight
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    The old Laser cards didn't work with Maestro online anyway, despite having the logo on them.


  • #6
    The J Stands for Jay
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    I have a very vague recollection of one of the banks on Ireland having Maestro only cards at some point in the last 10 years.


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  • #7
    BuffyBot
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    McGaggs wrote: »
    I have a very vague recollection of one of the banks on Ireland having Maestro only cards at some point in the last 10 years.

    Postbank did. It was another mangled version, which you couldn't use online..


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