Hope the thread title isn't too long.
To make a long story short, I need to move from the EBS as they do not do a chip and pin laser card. They are still issuing the swipe kind that are often not accepted in shops any more. I have complained in my local EBS many times and to the EBS hotline but to no avail. The response of a girl in my local branch was to get the money from an ATM before I went shopping
. Duh!
So anyhoo the time has come to move on, I think. I'm looking at Ulster Bank for the following reasons:
- they do free banking
- they are largely owned by the UK government so if this country goes belly up then my few coppers may still be safe.
But I don't think they do Laser cards? They have Visa debit alright.
Is the Visa debit as widely accepted as the Visa credit card? Doesn't a credit card give the purchaser much more protection than a debit card?
To make a long story short, I need to move from the EBS as they do not do a chip and pin laser card. They are still issuing the swipe kind that are often not accepted in shops any more. I have complained in my local EBS many times and to the EBS hotline but to no avail. The response of a girl in my local branch was to get the money from an ATM before I went shopping
. Duh! So anyhoo the time has come to move on, I think. I'm looking at Ulster Bank for the following reasons:
- they do free banking
- they are largely owned by the UK government so if this country goes belly up then my few coppers may still be safe.
But I don't think they do Laser cards? They have Visa debit alright.
Is the Visa debit as widely accepted as the Visa credit card? Doesn't a credit card give the purchaser much more protection than a debit card?