On Wednesday 10 January 2007 09:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Mark, > > I tend to disagree with U on an African credit card being refused > on US based or any web site.
I didn't say all (U.S.-based) web sites, just that there are some. On all my online purchases from outside the continent, I've had a problem with at least 3% to 4% of the web sites I used, all in the U.S., citing location of bank that issued my credit card is from a blocked country (South Africa) I also had one site based in .au giving the same problem; and this is a very common occurence, so much so several online fora exist with people discussing the issue. Otherwise, UK sites I've bought from, and most other U.S. sites have not given any problems. I've still not come up with a formula for which merchant are picky, though, e.g., several merchants are now refusing the accept payment from online-based credit/debit cards such as ePassporte's Visa card service, and others. For some of these cases, I've had to link to my Paypal account and resort to that. > Only thing is that it's a different > process and requires to either make a call to them and or send a > copy of your credit card to them. I had to go through this when I was purchasing my service with ePassporte, and this is only because I pressed on... > Because Visa and Master are > international standards they have to comply. ... ePassporte said they couldn't service me because while my card was a Mastercard, it was issued by a bank in Africa (Standard Bank South Africa) that was blocked from making Internet purchases through it. I burned the wires for a week talking to their supervisors, customer service attendants and their accounts team, until they were convinced I was legit - faxed, e-mailed, scanned and phoned until I was blue - at which point they manually entered my credit card and other details into the system, a move that was otherwise unorthodox for them. Many countries offer Visa and Mastercard credit/debit cards that have no international "access" whatsoever. I know they do this in .ke, as well as here in .zw, so it's not always that your credit or debit card will automagically work when you travel or buy online. But like I said, my experience has been a 3% to 4% failure rate because of where my card was issued, and only on U.S. sites. Mark.
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