NORTHERN
IRELAND BANK CARDS
The music festival of the year
Glastonbury,is on this weekend – thousands of people are there
– enjoying the music and hopefully not too much rain and mud!
And Kathy wanted to be one of them. She tried to buy tickets on
line with internet booking company aloud.com – in fact she
tried many times, using her debit card – a Northern Ireland
bank card – she even tried using her daughter’s card
– again - a N Irish bank card. She was about to give up but
then discovered that using an English bank card did the trick –
she got her tickets. So what was the problem? We can’t get
to the root of it – Kathy says she keyed in her details correctly,
on the website, aloud.com say she didn’t. So it’s a
case of her word against theirs. But perhaps this sort of thing
has happened to you? We’d like to hear your experiences
Listeners contacted the programme
to say
• We had the same
experience when we tried to buy on-line from Amazon – my son
has a Northern Bank debit card and he had money in his account,
they wouldn’t accept his card. In the end my son had to ask
me to pay for it using my Mastercard
• I was listening this morning about your listeners problem
with her bank card. I was in Tenerife last year. I had intended
to use my Bank of Ireland Switch card. None of the banks in Tenerife
would accept it. On return I went to my bank. I was told that you
could not use Bank of
Ireland bank cards abroad that were issued in Northern Ireland but
cards issued to customers in the Republic were okay.
E mail you views
oyb@bbc.co.uk
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