spathic wrote on Apr 23
rd, 2013 at 12:43pm:
I'd hope nobody would be foolish enough to put their debit card on a subscription.
I'm also probably due for disappointment on that hope.
In Europe there's no real difference between a debit card and a credit card... and actually I'm fairly sure 99% of the Europeans don't know the difference, because what we call a credit card is in fact a debit card... and the real credit cards are not issued by banks...
So there's probably a lot of people foolish enough to put a debit card on a subscription because that's how we do things on our side of the Pond.
And I won't even go into weird local things: Checks are free in Froggy Land, and were until not long ago the most accepted payment way. Krauts love big bank notes and dislike credit/debit cards, as they have to pay for checks, they end up carrying and paying a lot of things with notes.
( The 100 to 500 Euro notes were made just for them basically. )
The Rosbeefs ( Ask Tere ) have also weird bank stuff... I had an account at the NatWest ( Or National Westminster Bank ) when I was a student there, and they closed it because I wasn't using it enough. ( that is I put some money on it every time I got money to put on it and I was trying very hard to avoid using it beyond what was really needed, like any student with a working braincell. )
Anyway, one more reason for me to change my credit ( in truth a debit ) card information to one of these E-Card my bank offer on the Turbine Account. I can restrict everything on it ( how much is taken, how many times, how long the card is valid, ... )