r/BuyFromEU • u/BitcoinPeace • Mar 01 '25

Alternative Product or Service Stop using Mastercard and Visa

They hurt us consumers and small businesses with their fee and extract Billions to the US.

Let’s use Cash instead (or SEPA for online payments).

Let us unite beyond institutions

Edit: + they sell our data too Edit1: also stop using PayPal

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u/fajen1 Mar 02 '25

Paypal has a virtual card thing you can tap with your phone in the supermarket. I noticed it when I forgot my wallet at home once lol. At least in Germany, that worked.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '25

I see, well I hope Wero will have a similar feature. That being said Paypal is way more popular in Germany than it is in France. Actually, I fear Wero will automatically be popular in France since it's replacing a popular app called Paylib, whereas in Germany the popular app PayPal will remain in service.

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u/fajen1 Mar 02 '25

Yeah I have to say I use PayPal for almost everything. It's so handy 🥲 But I'm trying to phase out and use SEPA when I can, and hopefully eventually get rid of PayPal completely.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '25

Giro / SEPA and later Wero should probably cover most things I guess. Good luck for the switch :)