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I was visiting Amsterdam (from the UK) about a month ago and I was quite surprised (and annoyed) to find stores, even supermarkets, that have gone cashless while at the same time they would only accept Maestro.
Revolut allows you to get a prepaid Maestro that you can topup with your credit card. Exchange rates are quite good.
Visa card network crashes, causing increased decline rates across UK and Europe
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#152Isn't this why you're supposed to be able to do the old hand-imprinted manual transactions? If they can't process the transaction, shouldn't they fall back to the manual option?
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#153Hey people I suggest revolut.com Make it an alternative it deserve!
That seems like a really cool concept. But also way too free. How are they making money? Their privacy policy (which was hard to find) doesn't describe how they handle your transaction data, yet almost half of the policy is describing how they're going to collect and disclose (web) information for advertising.
Raising money (around $350 million recently) to hire consultants to figure out a monetization policy.
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#156This is one of IBM's flagship customers, isn't it? They're supposed to never go down.
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a) This isn't tested weekly b) I doubt any store actually has the forms/equipment/etc for this
Some cards don't even have the raised, embossed printing anymore, so the imprint method wouldn't work.
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#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
I guess that’s the point, to avoid thinking time. It’s from the interviewer point of view
The best candidates might come to an immediate decision if pressured that way.