Page 1 of Play.com - Don`t they accept Visa Electron`s? =(

Just had all my orders refused. I know I`ve got sufficent funds in my account, so why the hell have they declined my card!?

Jason, have you used Electron with Play before? At the bottom of Play`s page, it doesn`t state Electron, but it does state MC, Visa, Switch, Delta and Solo. I don`t use Electron so I can`t say for sure.

They wont accept it,which is a shame because they tend to have the best prices..for a few pounds more i usually use:

www.dvd.co.uk
www.movietyme.com

Both accept electron.

working for a phone & e-retailer as i do, we`ve found that many visa electron cards (`for electronic use only` cards) now HAVE to be swiped through a pdq terminal and can no longer be `forced` through by just punching the numbers in as we were previously able to. this seems to be upto the individual banks to decide on the implementation of this issue as some can still be punched thru`.

the result is that we (and probably play as well) have just found that without the swipe there`s no way to get the money from your card - hence no transaction, no goods - even though its still possible to get `authorisation` without the card being present.

you`d think they`d tell you this though!

best bet is to get a `solo` card which doesnt suffer from this problem: its more readily accepted everywhere, can be used abroad thru the maestro/cirrus system and usually isn`t a credit scored account. try the halifax ;-)

just get a standard non-electron debit card! :-p