Advantages: Can't get into debt, lots of shops take it, from 11 with some banks, Disadvantages: Woolies don't take it!
The Solo card is a debit card aimed at young people that works like a Switch except you can’t get overdrawn – in other words in debt. It’s a great idea and allows young people to shop through mail-order and on the internet without using their parents credit card. Though some adults also have it if they’re not too hot with money-management!
The Solo card is accepted widely and most shops accept it, though it is not accepted as widely as Switch. Woolworth’s don’t take it which seems rather stupid considering many of their customers are young people. Though the Solo is accepted far more than the Visa Electron, which only a small minority of shops seem to take.
Solo offers a cashback feature which you can use at all shops taking Solo. Most places won’t charge you, but smaller shops might. I was ...
Disillusioned 18.06.2001
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Advantages: No worries about carrying cash Disadvantages: Many well known stores don't accept them
Switch, Delta, Electron, Solo - they're all basically the same.
I used to have a Switch card - accepted by virtually every shop or service - a debit card by any other name.
I now have a Solo card, due to recent financial difficulties it was all I could get. This works in much the same way as a Switch card - it's a debit card which you hand over in place of cash for payment and saves time and hassle writing cheques. Funds are normally debited from your bank account within one to two working days and you can also get up to £50 cashback with it where that facility is available. It will not allow you to go overdrawn on your account unless you already have an overdarft facility - unusual with accounts offering a Solo card to begin with.
BUT, and it's a big but, not all the expected shops - including large, well-known stores, accept ...
blurbubble 05.04.2001
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Advantages: Heights and Sights Disadvantages: Price is twice
the One Langham Place Shopping Mall, an actual 10 story shopping mall with big brands like Nike and Adidas shops, L?Occitane, the unfeasibly expensive soap shop, alongside electrical outlets and a shop that for 50GBP would make a miniature cartoony model of you, after a 3 day wait for manufacture all attached to the hotel by a glass bridge ? how posh does a hotel have to be before a souvenir shop or two just won?t do anymore?.
We had no time to explore these things now though as, in case you forgot, it was my 30th Birthday on this day of diverse transport (Car to Maglev to Aeroplane to *shudder* Bus) and after corking the complementary champagne and polishing off most of the posh looking but not-so-posh tasting complementary chocolates, plus a doomed and short-lived play on the mysteriously complementary hotel branded Yo-Yo, we headed down ...
Muffin_the_Mule 06.07.2009
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