ePassporte and Mastercard

[Jim]

I just noticed that you can't load an epassporte account using mastercard. How long has this been going on? And, how much longer will it last?

[Chop Smith]

Several months ago I could not use mastercard there, but I used mastercard to load there just a few weeks ago.

[Ramster]

Not sure Jim. You could before, I did it with my mastercard maybe a year ago. Kind of sucks actually I have 3 mastercards, no visa.

[Greenguy]

It does make sense seeing as Visa & Master Card are competitors (like CCBill not accepting ePassporte because of Epoch's involvement)

[Jim]

It does make sense seeing as Visa & Master Card are competitors (like CCBill not accepting ePassporte because of Epoch's involvement)
No, mastercard worked up until a few weeks ago when I last checked.

[Greenguy]

Maybe they just noticed it was a Visa product? :D

[Chop Smith]

I just checked and on 04/01/05 I used master charge to put some money in my epassporte account. Now I get Due to technical difficulties, we are unable to process MasterCard transactions at this time; however you may still use your VISA. This is a temporary problem and we working to get it resolved as quickly as possible. Sorry for this inconvenience.

[Jim]

I wonder if epoch is having technical difficulties with mastercard as well.

[chilihost]

apparantly this is supposed to be fixed up by the end of this week...this info comes directly from the support phone people.

cheers,
Luke

[Rocco]

wanted to open an account on epassporte about 5 months ago and noticed I can't use mastercard

[Fido]

I reloaded my account 15 Apr 2005 using MC and it worked.

[Mishi]

It's probably not terribly helpful to this conversation, but for all practical purposes, Visa = MasterCard. They are different when it benefits them and they are the same when it benefits them. For you as a consumer, the only real difference is the logo on your plastic and the first four numbers on your account.

[stuveltje]

mmm i use visa there i always thought mastercard(i have those too) and visa where a huge different

[Jim]

I just called and they said they were doing a software upgrade. Sounds a lot like Bullshit to me. And, a lot of business not getting done. Rand, what is the real reason that epassporte is not working with mastercard?

[Greenguy]

Rand was here posting in the other ePassporte thread earlier - surprised he missed this one :(

[Jim]

I was a little surprised as well. But, I really can't blame him from shying away from it.

[Ms Naughty]

Muggenjuggen epassporte. I tried to sign up yesterday and had all manner of trouble - possibly because of this software upgrade.

[Jim]

I just talked to someone else at epassporte and they told me that there was a problem on mastercards end. I asked coyly, "are you upgrading some software or something?" They told me "NO, it is a problem with mastercard".

I wonder if I can get a different answer every time I call. :)