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Re:A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to ... by corford on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @09:22AM (#14358123)
Interesting! For AWS, DO, Linode etc, I use a debit card with no problem.

Edit: just remembered we're using Google's Cloud Vision API and that's billed to the same debit card. So, for UK accounts at least, they take debit cards.

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Re:A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to ... by Macha on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @06:09PM (#14363259)
Maybe it's a regional thing? Most banks here (Ireland) issue debit cards by default and most people don't go out of their way to get a credit card, so they'd be cutting off a large chunk of their customer base by banning debit cards.
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Re:A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to ... by derefr on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @09:53PM (#14364324)
Are your debit cards really just debit cards (i.e. bank-specific "ATM" or "client" cards), or do they work using credit-card payments infrastructure? If you plugged your Irish bank debit card number into e.g. Stripe as a credit card number, would it take it?
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Re:A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to ... by Macha on Thursday May 18, 2017 @03:46AM (#14365505)
Most are visa debit. I think one bank issues a bank specific bank, or at least did a few years ago.
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