From: "Wedell" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Credit card that is payable at a post office
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:12:35 GMT

> To get a prepaid credit card sign up for an Abbey current account.  They 
> should automatically give you either a VISA Debit card or a VISA Electron 
> card - both are debit not credit cards and both can be used to make 'VISA' 
> payments...

>

WTF are you talking about - a debit card is *NOT* a prepaid credit card.  It 
gives you non of the protection or safeguards that a credit card has and 
once the money has gone it is very very difficult to get your money back if 
something goes wrong as banks just don't want to know.

And VISA Electron must be most crap card payment system there is - a great 
many number of shops still don't accept it for payment in the UK and I 
suspect is very difficult to use overseas.