Maestro Debit Card

No, it needs to specify Maestro. Maestro is only useable outside the UK on websites that support Maestro SecureCode. UK websites that mention Maestro usually only accept ex-Switch cards.

Your partial correct. Maestro is for use outside of your home country as long as the merchants bank take maestro.

A US. debit card with a Maestro symbol could be used anywhere in the UK. that take maestro. A UK. debit card with a Maestro symbol could be used anywhere in the US. that take maestro. Most internet places don't take Maestro for internet purchases at this time. So purchases must be done in person.

Your bank card my need to be activated for out of country purchases.

In the U.S. some of the debit cards can also be used as credit cards but still comes out of the checking account. That one thing I like about are cards.

This make me wonder, how your chip and pin will work with are debit cards and are credit cards now.

I know here in the U.S. we can buy prepaid american express gift cards, prepaid mastercard debit gift cards, prepaid visa debit gift cards. Some don't have address verification and won't work on the internet.

Greg Rozelle

Hi Greg

Your post is almost completly out of date and wrong, and also your spelling and grammer make little sense.

Switch has been rebranded maestro in the UK and any site that takes Switch will take Maestro.

*May* need, but in practise I believe all UK issued cards can be used internationally be defaut.

Go on, whats the one thing you like about 'are cards'?

Debit cards are chip&pin, just like credit cards.

We too can buy prepaid american express and prepaid mastercard's and use on them on internet.

Peter

I think you are correct that all are by default. Which makes me wonder if I can have "roaming" (shall we call it that?) turned off on my cards like I could on my phone? I know that roaming on phones in the US doesn't mean the same as in the UK - so to avoid any doubt I mean the term roaming used in the UK.

There may be electronic purchases where the merchant uses an overseas agent but for high street purchases this would work well - and I wouldn't have to worry that my cloned mag strip card was being used aboard.

There is nothing wrong with my spelling. I use a spell checker.

Maybe it because I live in the US We have very few web sites that take maestro at this time.

Visa Check/debit cards Can be used at most places that take either Visa Credit or Visa electron

MasterCard Check/debit Card Can be used at most places that take either MasterCard Credit or Maestro.

The card I have in my pocket has a Maestro, NYCE, Cirrus, and a local bank symbol.

Mine needs to be activated for international purchases.

I corrected this statement above.

Not here in the US yet. Are bank here are more tied to signature based debit.

That's what I said.

Greg Rozelle

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"Greg Rozelle" wrote

Yes there is. [Was tempted to write: "Yes their's"...]

"Greg Rozelle" wrote

Well, that'll be your ["you're"??!] problem, then.

Your spell checker doesn't know which word you were trying to write, so puts the wrong one in instead!

"Greg Rozelle" wrote

Your "*UK* issued card"? On which UK bank?

Huh? Read the post. I am from the U.S.

The reason I posted is the OP asked how he could use his debit card that has maestro symbol at a US website and I was correcting another poster on where and how maestro can be used.

Maestro can not usually be used in your home country but can be used outside of your home country at most retailers and atms.

I do realize some cards my only have the Maestro symbol then you would be able to use anywhere that takes Maestro.

Greg Rozelle

Huh? Read the post. I am from the U.S.

The reason I posted is the OP asked how he could use his debit card that has maestro symbol at a US website and I was correcting another poster on where and how maestro can be used.

Maestro can not usually be used in your home country but can be used outside of your home country at most retailers and atms.

I do realize some cards may only have the Maestro symbol then you would be able to use anywhere that takes Maestro.

Greg Rozelle

"Greg Rozelle" wrote

You mentioned you had a UK issued card - what bank is it for?

"Greg Rozelle" wrote

I did!

"Greg Rozelle" wrote

I had noticed - that's why I wondered which *UK* card you had!

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Peter wrote something about UK issued cards:

... to which you replied ...

"Greg Rozelle" wrote

So you were talking about *your* "UK issued card"..

ROFL! A phrase concerning glass houses and stones springs to mind!

I never said I had a UK issue card (Might have by mistake). I did say I have a US check/debit card with a maestro symbol on the back as well as other symbols.

Greg Rozelle

Correction on this comment above. After reading a website. It just depends on where your purchase an item and what interbank network(S) it will go through. Some places it will work and other places it wont.

Here is are debit card network list.

This website is a little out of date.

Greg Rozelle

Er, yes, but that doesn't guarantee that words are spelt correctly. It will allow 'their' for 'there', 'on' for 'one' and lots of other similar errors.

In particular, 'are' for 'our', was one which caught my eye, and which helps to render the missive pretty incomprehensible until you put some effort into understanding what might have been meant. This is just not good enough. The effort should be made by the writer, not the reader.

There really is no good reason to use a spell checker *ever*, if it leads to the practice of being lax when typing, on the basis that the checker will catch all one's mistakes. Far better not to make them in the first plaice.

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^^^^Hmm, I beg to differ. If I didn't use a spell checker you would not be able to understand my post at all and it would be horrible. I do not consider my grammar bad from other posting I have seen.

Even one has different grammar even though we speak English. Checking is the same as Chequing is one example.

Greg Rozelle

However this last paragraph just emphasises what several people have been saying, you need to give your posts a quick once over proof read as well as running the spell checker. The above paragraph has one definite error and maybe some others which make it very difficult to understand. (I *think* you meant it to start "Everyone has ..." but I'm not really certain of that)