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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 whazor »

jdblair wrote: post #4
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.

Well I guess I have good news for you (and bad news for Dutch merchants), because Wero does offer the ability to dispute.

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

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Post by CJefferson »

This type of thing (scan QR code) is how basically all payments were done when I was recently in China, via wechat or alipay (either you show your QR code for big shops, or scan their QR code for small shops / vendors. They can just print them out if they want and hang a copy).

I found it superior to other systems I've used in basically every way. Particularly for small market stalls -- I scan their QR code, I enter how much I want to send them. They never get my details, I don't have to trust they didn't fat-finger the price. It also makes it amazingly easy to send money to friends, just scan their code and send them their share of dinner.

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

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Post by vrganj »

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.

How would you even pronounce wero as a native English speaker?

We - ro? Wer-o?

At least iDeal was unambiguous.

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

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Post by thibaut_barrere »

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.

Afaik the system is being consolidated

https://epicompany.eu/media-insights/ideal-to-phase-into-wer...

« iDEAL will begin rebranding to iDEAL | Wero in 2026 »

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

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Post by fsuts »

dinkelberg wrote: post #12

Wero shows that marketing is everything. It's just regular bank transactions with a much larger fee. We could have had EPC QR codes and similar completely free technologies instead.

Wero’s website says they don’t charge fees

So who is charging the fees?

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

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Post by moritzwarhier »

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.

It sounds like a coupon website installing malware to me. But... names are just names. When adoption gets large enough, every name becomes unimportant I guess.

iShares, iDeal, WhatsApp: the Millenial trinity of European essentials :D

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