Roland Perry wrote:

I've just received a replacement Barclaycard 'Platinum' and it's made
from plain white plastic. What's that all about? Maybe they are sulking
because it's a Mastercard not VISA?

(Note to USA subscribers: for a generation, Barclaycard and VISA were
synonymous in the UK.)

Somebody didn't let someone win at golf?

(Note to USA subscribers: for a generation, Barclaycard and VISA were
synonymous in the UK.)

I recall some of my early trips to the UK, attempting use use a Mastercard,
getting a puzzled look from the clerk and having to say "Just process it like a
Eurocard".

In message , at 08:35:46 on
Fri, 2 Mar 2012, Robert Neville remarked:
(Note to USA subscribers: for a generation, Barclaycard and VISA were
synonymous in the UK.)

I recall some of my early trips to the UK, attempting use use a Mastercard,
getting a puzzled look from the clerk and having to say "Just process it like a
Eurocard".

Hmm, not sure what a Eurocard is - the closest I recall is a cheque
guarantee card for an obsolete initiative called "Eurocheques", which
were a kind of cheque that you could write in any currency in the EU
(and long before the Euro was a currency - so we are talking about
Deutschmarks, Francs etc).

But I'm old enough to have had a Diners card, and to have found an
outlet which accepted it.
--
Roland Perry

On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 18:31:52 +0000, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 08:35:46 on
Fri, 2 Mar 2012, Robert Neville remarked:
(Note to USA subscribers: for a generation, Barclaycard and VISA were
synonymous in the UK.)

I recall some of my early trips to the UK, attempting use use a Mastercard,
getting a puzzled look from the clerk and having to say "Just process it like a
Eurocard".

Hmm, not sure what a Eurocard is

A Brussels-based operation which in 1968 entered into an agreement
with Mastercard giving mutual recognition of either's cards :-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocar...ayment_card%29
that operation evolved into Europay which later merged with
Mastercard.

- the closest I recall is a cheque
guarantee card for an obsolete initiative called "Eurocheques",

A related operation. RIP 2002.

which
were a kind of cheque that you could write in any currency in the EU
(and long before the Euro was a currency - so we are talking about
Deutschmarks, Francs etc).

But I'm old enough to have had a Diners card, and to have found an
outlet which accepted it.

Roland Perry wrote:

Hmm, not sure what a Eurocard is

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocar...ayment_card%29

Roland Perry writes:

In message , at 08:35:46
on Fri, 2 Mar 2012, Robert Neville remarked:
(Note to USA subscribers: for a generation, Barclaycard and VISA were
synonymous in the UK.)

I recall some of my early trips to the UK, attempting use use a Mastercard,
getting a puzzled look from the clerk and having to say "Just process it like a
Eurocard".

Hmm, not sure what a Eurocard is - the closest I recall is a cheque
guarantee card for an obsolete initiative called "Eurocheques", which
were a kind of cheque that you could write in any currency in the EU
(and long before the Euro was a currency - so we are talking about
Deutschmarks, Francs etc).

I remember Eurocard in Europe, in the UK it was called Access.

Phil

"Phil" wrote in message ...



I remember Eurocard in Europe, in the UK it was called Access.

Phil

Access was joined to MasterCard (MCI) and EuroCard (ECI)- they are both
clubs.

Richard - who has read this thread with interest, ex-EFTPOS manager for
Access, ex-member APACS PIN Working Group