Amazon has announced that from January 19, it will no longer accept payments for purchases made using UK-issued Visa credit cards.
The world’s largest online marketplace told customers by email that the decision to stop accepting the popular payment method was due to "the high fees Visa charges for processing credit card transactions", however, customers will still be able to use debit cards, including Visa, and non-Visa credit cards, it said.
Barclaycard, HSBC and Vanquis all use Visa on their credit cards and with American Express also rejected by many UK retailers, that means “people looking for rewards on their spending or trying to split the cost of shopping with a 0% purchase card on Amazon will be forced to choose a Mastercard,”
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