Revolut Megathread.

Happy to report that Sixt Frankfurt had no problems with my Revolut debit card 😌

That is because Sixt has a very clear policy giving that they even accept the German EC Card (or better giro card).

There are several European countries where they take vpay or maestro and in most countries they are active they take Visa/Mastercard Debit.

In the US you also need some additonal paperwork but Sixt is very clear that a credit card is not needed but you need to see the counter and there are some limits on the type of car you can get.

Returned from spain on a tui flight tonight,

They announced over intercom that dont accept cash and dont except revolut either,

They will only except other bank cards that are not prepay cards,

Staff on the flight take your card to check what type of card it is before they process it,

I thought that revolut wouldn't be considered as a prepay card?

It should be the same as any other bank 🤔

Try Albert Heijn supermarkets in Amsterdam there are a few of them only except Maestro or Vpay. So no n26, aib visa, ebs, revolut OR cash.

I think they accept Mastercard & Visa now.

I'm after getting a quote from Revolut for car insurance and I'm shocked how dear it is. Currently paying €351 with 123.ie who're RSA. Whereas Revolut/AIG are after quoting €731! That includes a 10% Metal plan discount too. Shocking stuff

That's true for any card tho. That's how payment on an airline works. They upload the transactions at the end of the flight.

I'm aware, but people tend to have much smaller balances with Revolut, making a decline due to insufficient funds much more probable. There was something here (I think) about some petrol pumps doing the same.

Using it as my main bank since last November with salary going directly into it and yet to have a decline that's not related to contact less limit being reached in the air or in store. I don't know why its worth the conversation as it's always prudent to have an alternative payment method regardless of the provider.

Maybe people are more likely to only have a couple of Euro in their Revoluts and airlines are noticing a pattern of declined payments? Though it happened to me with a business credit card a while ago, the terminal coded the payment for my coffee as duty free which my company blocks. When I figured it out I emailed the provider trying to pay but never got a response, so they didn't care much then.

Yeah I did the same (email and app notification as well)

Her non technical self isn't looking forward to using it

Say be a few like her at the start