Has anyone here got a Diner's Club card?

Blisterman

I was just thinking. Most places seem to accept them, but I have never once seen someone pay for something with them, or accepted one, where I used to work.

Is there even such a thing as a Diner's Club card? Or is it something made up by the guys who make the Credit cards accepted here stickers?

Stephen

I think the question should be has anyone anywhere got a diner's club card

I used to work in a shop for a few years and have never seen one either. I only remember one regular customer that had an American Express card too.

DublinWriter

Blisterman wrote:

Is there even such a thing as a Diner's Club card? Or is it something made up by the guys who make the Credit cards accepted here stickers?

I tried to get one around 2001, as I was flying a lot back then and possesion of a Diners Club card got you into most airport business lounges.

However, their UK operation stopped accepting applicants with ROI adresses, so I just forgot all about them.

angeldelight

They definitely exist! My mam used to work for them as a credit controller, they were based in Citibank in town. Moved all their operations back to the UK though.

Random

Weren't the the original credit card guys?

constitutionus

havent seen a diners club card in over 8 years my company used to take em for foreign exchange advances and purchases. that said American express is on the way out too. feck all places take em anymore in ireland and it throws the yanks no end. even clearys has stopped taking it and half their business goes to tourists.

Kernel

Had an unlimited one years ago, in the end I got a real credit card!

Kernel

ciaranfo wrote:

Weren't the the original credit card guys?

Yepp, first credit card introduced when the 'inventor' noticed a problem keeping track of meals he had on the slate.

daveirl

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testicle

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Every petrol station in the country has a NO DCI sign outside...

brianthebard

Really? I know of plenty that accept them.

Lump

That bloke that Stephen refered to earlier used to do my head in everytime he bought stuff, I'd have to enter the card details manually and more often then not ring the bank. Not because the bloke was broke, just because AMEX were bastards

Never seen a Diners card though.


John

Sam Vimes

daveirl wrote:

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i can count on the fingers of a blind woodsman the number of times my credit card has been refused (ie zero)

daveirl

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shane86

Thankfully not.

There is nothing I hate more than getting stuck behind some idiot who insists on paying for 6 euro worth of food or drink with a feckin card. They ought to have a minimum spending limit to be able to use one e.g. cards only accepted on payments of 80 euro or more. I nearly hope the employee skims the card on these people.

Random

shane86 wrote:

Thankfully not.

There is nothing I hate more than getting stuck behind some idiot who insists on paying for 6 euro worth of food or drink with a feckin card. They ought to have a minimum spending limit to be able to use one e.g. cards only accepted on payments of 80 euro or more. I nearly hope the employee skims the card on these people.

You wouldn't like to stand behind me in Dunnes getting a bottle of coke and a packet of wine gums with my Mastercard then.

Or in Tesco buying a strawberry Yazoo and getting some cash back on my laser

chump

shane86 wrote:

Thankfully not.

There is nothing I hate more than getting stuck behind some idiot who insists on paying for 6 euro worth of food or drink with a feckin card. They ought to have a minimum spending limit to be able to use one e.g. cards only accepted on payments of 80 euro or more. I nearly hope the employee skims the card on these people.

I can count on the toes of a legless mariner the amount of times I've been stuck behind some idiot who insists on paying for 6 euro worth of food or drink with a feckin card. I just thought I'd throw that in there.

Dord

don't most shops have a min. amount to spend if you're using a credit/laser card. i think it may be 7euro?

Sam Vimes

joe robot wrote:

don't most shops have a min. amount to spend if you're using a credit/laser card. i think it may be 7euro?

the cheapest thing i ever bought on a credit card was 90c for a can of coke in a petrol station

Anti

My dad has one, Well he used to a few years ago anyway. He got it for the simple fact of resuaurant books, and first class lobbys on airports. As he did a lot of traveling.

Ive never seen another one apart from him and i worked in retail for a few months

billy the squid

shane86 wrote:

Thankfully not.

There is nothing I hate more than getting stuck behind some idiot who insists on paying for 6 euro worth of food or drink with a feckin card. They ought to have a minimum spending limit to be able to use one e.g. cards only accepted on payments of 80 euro or more. I nearly hope the employee skims the card on these people.

Guilty, your honour.

am a bit of a ****er for doing that when requireing 20 smokes on waiting day,

Agent Smith

ciaranfo wrote:

in Tesco buying a strawberry Yazoo and getting some cash back on my laser

guilty as charged...


saying that, i'd do it rarely, but it does happen

rogue-entity

Guilty too for the following:
1. Going into Tesco and picking up about 6-10eur worth of items, and paying with the credit card on the self-service machines.

2. Buying a bottle of coke or something just for cashback on the laser card

Cheapest thing I ever bought on a credit card: 99c song on iTunes.

Tesco operate a minimum purchase of 5Eur before they will let you get cashback on your laser

I have never seen a Diner's club card, but when I was working in Ardkeen Esso, we had one person who had a corporate Amex card for buying fuel. I think most places that have those manual machines from AIB will accept Amex as well as the usual MasterCard/Visa/Maestro-Laser cards.

astrofool

Cash is on the way out, soon everything will be card/pin based. Laser/credit cards with chip+pin are almost as fast as people fast with cash now, and women seem to be able to actually use them. If you've ever working on a till, you will know the pain of a woman trying to pay for something by cash.

skyhighflyer

Worked on a till for 6 os so years. Used to see the odd Diner's Club card, haven't seen one in about two years or so.

I'd rank the following cards in terms of popularity:

Laser (it's taking over the world people!!)
Visa
Mastercard
American Express (at least one or two a day, often US tourists)
Visa Electron (the equivalent of Laser in most of continental Europe)
Diner's Club

Also, to the poster who said that most petrol stations have "NO DCI" on a sign outside, this refers to "Diesel Card International", which is a type of discount fuel card; not Diner's Club, which, despite it's antiquity, most places can still take.

[Jackass]

astrofool wrote:

Cash is on the way out, soon everything will be card/pin based. Laser/credit cards with chip+pin are almost as fast as people fast with cash now, and women seem to be able to actually use them. If you've ever working on a till, you will know the pain of a woman trying to pay for something by cash.

You obviously havn't spent much time behind women at ATMs...I mean it's the same pin every time, it's the same options every time, what the hell are they reading for so long? I don't get a book option...

And another thing, what's the deal with using two cards sometimes? Are they checking balances or something?

Surely people know what account their money is in...

Lump

skyhighflyer wrote:

Visa Electron (the equivalent of Laser in most of continental Europe)

Switch/Maestro is the european Equilelent to Laser

Peteee

skyhighflyer wrote:

popularity:

Laser (it's taking over the world people!!)
Visa
Mastercard

I would have thought that Mastercard would be more popular then Visa at this stage. When I had the option of getting a credit card, I picked Mastercard, due to their good marketing campagin!

Our man in Havana

Nick wrote:

You obviously havn't spent much time behind women at ATMs...I mean it's the same pin every time, it's the same options every time, what the hell are they reading for so long? I don't get a book option...

And another thing, what's the deal with using two cards sometimes? Are they checking balances or something?

Surely people know what account their money is in...

I hate getting stuck behind the person planning a hostile takeover on an ATM. One woman must have had 5 cards and took out cash from all of them.

skyhighflyer

Lump wrote:

Switch/Maestro is the european Equilelent to Laser

Thought that was more of a UK thing , it was always UK people with those. I live in Paris and my bank card is also a Visa electron which works at home.

Zapp Brannigan

skyhighflyer wrote:

Thought that was more of a UK thing , it was always UK people with those. I live in Paris and my bank card is also a Visa electron which works at home.

Yeah Switch/Maestro is the UK laser.

BuffyBot

Both Mastercard (Maestro) and Visa offer debit card products.

_Kaiser_

I used to have a Diner's card provided by the company I was working for at the time, but they were next to useless in Ireland (which is probably why they issued them to us ). Think they later switched to American Express though.

Cormic

My dad had a Diners Club before the government duty. Have not seen one in years though.

I had a corporate AMEX in work and was happy when we moved to Mastercard. There was never a problem with hotels but a lot of restaurants did not accept them.

Joe_Soap

I have a Corporate Amex card and a Visa card, both for collecting airmiles. I get a better airmile rate per euro with the Amex so I try to use that first before the Visa. Not too many places I shop at refuse the Amex.

constitutionus

Nick wrote:

And another thing, what's the deal with using two cards sometimes? Are they checking balances or something?

Surely people know what account their money is in...

ive done that. generally its to check to see if debits have been taken or accounts credited. wouldnt do it if the fecking bank would actually send you a statement more than once a year ! (and before you ask, i have asked for monthly statements but the fecking retards are lucky to tie their shoelaces in the morning where i bank let alone do their job. suffice to say im shifting soon) and seeing as the feckers charge ya over 12 euro if you miss a debit i want to make sure

Stephen

Have these people never heard of internet banking?

nlgbbbblth

I think they're amazing - a sort of cult credit card.

'Bunch of sharks' is how one customer I know described Diners Club.

ive done that. generally its to check to see if debits have been taken or accounts credited. wouldnt do it if the fecking bank would actually send you a statement more than once a year ! (and before you ask, i have asked for monthly statements but the fecking retards are lucky to tie their shoelaces in the morning where i bank let alone do their job. suffice to say im shifting soon) and seeing as the feckers charge ya over 12 euro if you miss a debit i want to make sure

If you had any cop on you'd use internet banking. You're on the net long enough everyday, its not like you don't have the access.