Comment by rhn_mk1
2 years ago
This is not how credit cards work, because the system of "credit card payment" is typically used with things other than credit cards. At least in Europe you go through extra expense and hassle to get a credit card, if you're even allowed.
If someone says "credit cards" to mean things that aren't credit cards, that's not really my problem.
Let me put it in another way: there's no "credit card payment system" for payments over the internet. There's Visa, MasterCard, whatever other "card" system. Those don't just facilitate payments for credit cards, but also for other kinds of "cards", which, in my experience, are no less common. Talking about paying by card over the internet doesn't make sense without considering that hordes of people don't use credit cards for that.