Re:Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
by bjghknggkk on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @12:17PM
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Show me a german webshop that supports modern payment methods. It usually old school bank transfers still.
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Re:Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
by victorbjorklund on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @01:09PM
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Which payment method is missing from Zalando? https://en.zalando.de/ It’s a German company
Re:Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
by heikkilevanto on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @12:31PM
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I just bought Kampot peppers from https://www.unclespepper.com/ which is in Germany, the name notwithstanding. And yes, I paid with my Danish Visa card. No problems except that I had to adjust my ad blocker once.
Re:Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
by looperhacks on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @01:58PM
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I have never paid anything via bank transfer, where are you buying?
Re:Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
by pjmlp on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @01:33PM
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Yes, why did I mentioned SEPA?
It works for the purpose to pay something online.
If you want an example, Eurowings.
Re:Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
by microtonal on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @02:30AM
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I order all over Europe (including Germany) and I cannot remember the last time I did a manual bank transfer.
Re:Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
by Beretta_Vexee on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @03:30AM
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On the other hand, I have already seen Germans complaining about the lack of possibility to buy train tickets by bank transfer.
Re:Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
by usrusr on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @05:10AM
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You must frequent a very interesting subset of German web shops then. Yes, some do offer bank transfer (many don't because latency is just so terrible), but I've never seen credit card not on the list. Perhaps with the exception of credit card available only through some intermediary like PayPal (which I tend to prefer over direct credit card, I don't really like spreading my CC details to servers of questionable maintenance state than strictly necessary)
Re:Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
by pimeys on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @05:43PM
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It is quite recent though, but the webshops do all accept credit cards, most of them even use stripe for payments.
Now, of course our corner shop appliance store still only accepts cash. It was fun to pick up cash from multiple ATMs and pay 1500€ with a pile of 20€ bills a few months ago.