"it's all mastercard/visa now" shows us he/she likely doesn't understand the vast difference between debit and credit cards.
If anyone from the UK who does understand that difference would chime in, that would be helpful.
If anyone from the UK who does understand that difference would chime in, that would be helpful.
So in actual fact, people in the UK who're reliant on their debit cards are more likely to be affected by this than people with credit cards too, even if the cards are from the same bank - banks that issue Mastercard credit cards generally use Visa for debit cards.
Anyway I got declined with my visa debit card earlier, tried another payment terminal in the supermarket and it worked fine.