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Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website

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Re: Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website

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Post by vrganj »

iDeal is amazing and it's great it's coming to the rest of Europe, even if they gave it a worse name.

Here in the Benelux it's the go-to payment option for ecommerce.

I think this will be a much bigger threat to Visa and Mastercard than the oft-promised digital Euro.

Re: Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website

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Post by patrickmcnamara »

vrganj wrote: post #2

iDeal is amazing and it's great it's coming to the rest of Europe, even if they gave it a worse name. Here in the Benelux it's the go-to payment option for ecommerce. I think this will be a much bigger threat to Visa and Mastercard than the oft-promised digital Euro.

I don't think the name is that bad. iDeal sounds very dated to me as a native English speaker.

Re: Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website

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Post by jdblair »

vrganj wrote: post #2

iDeal is amazing and it's great it's coming to the rest of Europe, even if they gave it a worse name. Here in the Benelux it's the go-to payment option for ecommerce. I think this will be a much bigger threat to Visa and Mastercard than the oft-promised digital Euro.

I agree it's always fast and convenient! It doesn't have the buyer protection you get with a credit card (it debits from your account immediately), but for most purchases that is fine.

Re: Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website

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Post by [deleted] »

patrickmcnamara wrote: post #3
vrganj wrote: post #2

iDeal is amazing and it's great it's coming to the rest of Europe, even if they gave it a worse name. Here in the Benelux it's the go-to payment option for ecommerce. I think this will be a much bigger threat to Visa and Mastercard than the oft-promised digital Euro.

I don't think the name is that bad. iDeal sounds very dated to me as a native English speaker.

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Re: Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website

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Post by V__ »

vrganj wrote: post #2

iDeal is amazing and it's great it's coming to the rest of Europe, even if they gave it a worse name. Here in the Benelux it's the go-to payment option for ecommerce. I think this will be a much bigger threat to Visa and Mastercard than the oft-promised digital Euro.

I actually like Wero a lot as a name, sound like virtual euro to me.

Re: Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website

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Post by flexagoon »

vrganj wrote: post #2

iDeal is amazing and it's great it's coming to the rest of Europe, even if they gave it a worse name. Here in the Benelux it's the go-to payment option for ecommerce. I think this will be a much bigger threat to Visa and Mastercard than the oft-promised digital Euro.

> I think this will be a much bigger threat to Visa and Mastercard than the oft-promised digital Euro

Wasn't the digital Euro specifically crippled due to banks lobbying against it to promote Wero instead?

Re: Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website

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Post by jabiko »

I recently bought something from fahrrad.de and was surprised to see Wero as an payment option. I don't know what I expected, but scanning the QR code and acknowledging the payment in my banking app worked without any issues. The whole process had a very "snappy" feeling without waiting for any of the usual spinners and redirects. So... thumbs up, I guess?
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