Has your VISA card stopped working today?

Outlaw Pete

Yes, TSB Visa Debit, multiple times...but my last transaction went fine yet money still showing in available balance.

sdanseo

It's for precisely this reason that I consciously have a Visa Debit and a MasterCard Credit Card.

Granted doesn't work if the bank has the problem but if it's the provider at least I can still panic buy bread and milk during a snowstorm.

Visa Debit worked at 2.30 in SV. Not sure if that was before the problem started

dublinman1990

I only found out about the Visa story after watching the news on BBC Four this evening. I have made no transactions today though. I heard from the RTÉ website that some transactions are going through intermittently since early this evening but some failures are still possible with customer's cards. I surely hope that this does not last well into the BH weekend. Both my mam & I could be f*cked for trying to using them in the shop tonight.

Outlaw Pete

123balltv wrote: »

Cash is king

He died in 2003 I'm afraid.

micks_address

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Yes, TSB Visa Debit, multiple times...but my last transaction went fine yet money still showing in available balance.

Panic in the pavilions but Aib debit visa worked fine in ruby's, penny's and dunnes.. Was kinda hoping wouldn't work in penneys to be honest. Would have saved a few quid

dennyire

nkav86 wrote: »

Paid with visa a out 5pm, it went through but hasn't shown up on my account.....should I be concerned it might 'bounce'

No Wont bounce. I took money out of ATM and online banking not showing it as a pending transaction, which it always does immediately i use it

Hococop

Visa debit work for people buying online?

Bowlardo

Surely in this day and age banks could send a text to notify people of the issue

ebbsy

Could they not just plug out the machine and then turn it on again ?

nkav86

dennyire wrote:

No Wont bounce. I took money out of ATM and online banking not showing it as a pending transaction, which it always does immediately i use it

Thanks for that, I'm a regular customer so wouldn't want to have an awkward return trip!

Kolido

Visa not working here in Slovakia, luckily I have a mastercard also.

squawker

Bitcoin doesn't fail

feck Visa

sdanseo

squawker wrote: »

Bitcoin doesn't fail

feck Visa

It does have a tendency to fluctuate just a tiny bit in value though as opposed to actual money.

squawker

sdanseo wrote: »

It does have a tendency to fluctuate just a tiny bit in value though as opposed to actual money.

its the future of money, mock all you like

cherryghost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzz8BvaQL9Q

sdanseo

squawker wrote: »

its the future of money, mock all you like

Only if it's regulated properly, at which point its characteristics will fall generally into line with other currencies.

Kolido

squawker wrote: »

its the future of money, mock all you like

Can you pay with bitcoin in your local supermarket?

squawker

sdanseo wrote: »

Only if it's regulated properly.

think you missed the whole point of Bitcoin

squawker

Kolido wrote: »

Can you pay with bitcoin in your local supermarket?

future

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noun

1.
a period of time following the moment of speaking or writing; time regarded as still to come.

sdanseo

squawker wrote: »

think you missed the whole point of Bitcoin

Because deregulating the currency markets won't result in any more of the type of problems we're seeing today?

Kolido

squawker wrote: »

future

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noun

1.
a period of time following the moment of speaking or writing; time regarded as still to come.

So how about now?

OldMrBrennan83

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squawker

Kolido wrote: »

So how about now?

I bought a GFX card last week with BtC, dunno about you

Patww79 wrote: »

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maybe in your world baby

omb0wyn5ehpij9

AIB visa debit card worked fine about an hour ago, and transaction is showing on the account too. I have a MasterCard credit card so wouldn’t have been stuck thankfully

tom1ie

Ah bollix I'm heading to Portugal on Monday and i have approx €14 in my wallet and the rest in the bank. I've only got a visa debit ptsb card!!

squawker

sdanseo wrote: »

Because deregulating the currency markets won't result in any more of the type of problems we're seeing today?

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Controlled_supply

OldMrBrennan83

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tom1ie

Patww79 wrote: »

Be grand by Monday.

Hopefully 🙈

Outlaw Pete

Mr. Potter is giving 50c for every Euro you have with Visa, I'm taking It!

Mr. CooL ICE

Made a contactless payment in Tesco and took out some cash from the ATM about an hour ago. Tis graaand

AllForIt

tom1ie wrote: »

Hopefully ��

I would try to get my hands on some cash If I were you. It's not certain what caused this - it may be a cyber attack. Although when I was in Aldi an hour ago I overheard one of the shop assistances saying they were back working it could possibly happen again.

Fann Linn

tom1ie wrote: »

Ah bollix I'm heading to Portugal on Monday and i have approx €14 in my wallet and the rest in the bank. I've only got a visa debit ptsb card!!

Lots of ptsb branches open on a Saturday, with actual people too!

squawker

AllForIt wrote: »

Although when I was in Aldi an hour ago I overheard one of the shop assistances saying they were back working it could possibly happen again.

sounds legit

SEPT 23 1989

Always on a Friday after the stockmarket closes

McMurphy

Took 50e from an AIB atm at 1930(ish) no problem.
Used contactless (via Google pay on phone)payment for beer in the Offie also aib, no hassle either.

Debit card wouldn't go through in Lidl though (non contactless) (visa), but contactless visa credit went through.

Madness.

tom1ie

Just tapped using my ptsb visa debit when purchasing a ten pack of beer. Worked fine.

TallGlass

Mr.S wrote: »

It's funny how angry people get when the things they take for granted stop working, half the people in Tesco earlier who got caught out where giving out to the staff like it was their fault.

In fairness, majority of work places pay only in credit payments, if the powers that be and banks want a cashless society then fail places need to be in place for stuff like this.

The fact there is either a massive cyber attack and no DR in place or both are after been taken off the grid is piss poor planning for what essentially is the architecture of the virtual payment systems.

Imagine a TIER 1 ISP going offline, with no DR like AT&T half the internet would be down. It's just unacceptable to allow such power to a company without proper fail safes in place like a completely isolated separate infrastructure in place, for situation exactly like this, this incident I imagine will cost into the 100s of millions in losses, this isn't exactly the Playstation network here.

Mastercard and Visa, should have an agreement in place that if one goes offline the other can help out. Like ISPs would.

The silence is deafening about what is actually happening too, which is very worrying, Ulster Bank done the same, thinking they had no reason to answer to the customers previously and the system was down for days.

Lackey

Mr.S wrote: »

It's funny how angry people get when the things they take for granted stop working, half the people in Tesco earlier who got caught out where giving out to the staff like it was their fault.

Can confirm this was as much fun as people offering me a few euros in coppers saying 'this is all I have' when their total was for a few hundred euros :pac:


time for a drink

OldMrBrennan83

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squawker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hamKl-su8PE

Lackey

Patww79 wrote: »

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Don't work in a supermarket.....we held peoples items for them 'til they can get back in.

Charlie19

Patww79 wrote: »

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I heard a staff member offer to hold onto the trolley load, till the customer came back with cash or they could just leave the trolley there and staff would put the groceries back.

Trolley was full to the brim, the poor lad must of been at least a half hour putting it together.

Reputable Rog

For everything else there's MasterCard.

Sheeps

Akarinn wrote: »

Why would they switch you and waive the fees? Its not your banks fault that visa went down?

Doesn't matter who's fault it is, if I don't have access to my funds due to their reliance on the card networks, they should provide customers with a reliable alternative.

Reputable Rog

Used Visa on 3 occasions today, MasterCard twice, no problems at all.

ebbsy

tom1ie wrote: »

Just tapped using my ptsb visa debit when purchasing a ten pack of beer. Worked fine.

Drunkard.

Used my phone to pay in SuperValu this evening. Went through but transaction not showing on my account.

AllForIt

Mr.S wrote: »

It's funny how angry people get when the things they take for granted stop working, half the people in Tesco earlier who got caught out where giving out to the staff like it was their fault.

Good observation. I think I must suffer from that too because I'm actually happy I've no money to take out of my bank account at this time. Who'd have though one could be happy for being skint.

TallGlass

Visa announcing in some over complicated corporate jargon that there are nearly back operating normal.

"We fell well short of this goal today and we apologise to all of our partners, and most especially, to Visa cardholders. Visa cardholders can now use their Visa cards as we are currently operating at close to normal levels.

"The issue was the result of a hardware failure. We have no reason to believe this was associated with any unauthorised access or malicious event."

Some fúcking hardware failure alright.

Trasna1

It was a hardware failure... Hmm... :rolleyes: