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In recent months, even more than in recent years, there has been a boom in emissions of prepaid credit cards. All analysts and experts agree that the surge is closely related to the increase in purchases made on the Internet. And it is really so: the Italians have begun to buy online, but with some distrust of payment systems, which have adopted the prepaid card as “secure.” But really the prepaid cards are a sure way to make purchases online?
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The main security feature that characterizes the prepaid cards come from the determination of the preventive, rather than the security of the transaction with the card. And ‘undeniable fact that the possibility of determining the amount that should be loaded on prepaid card allows you to limit damage from fraud or improper use of the same amount charged.
But it is also true that the problems reported by owners of prepaid cards about the success of deals are growing in number and in any case higher than those associated with credit cards and revolving classic.
First of all prepaid cards can not be denied the payment and then make it impossible to activate and initiate charge-back or refund of expenses that the holder does not recognize.
What we do is guaranteed for credit cards and revolving classic: in fact in this case, the holder may apply to your bank through the credit card issuer, which will be refunded the amount on a payment that was not performed and thus the result of fraudulent use or misuse of its products and its own data card.
Furthermore, with regard to purchases on the Internet, there is no doubt that traditional credit cards and revolving allowing greater capacity utilization, meaning wider acceptance of the card as a payment system.
In short, no e-commerce site, as well as any website where you can make purchases of goods and services, refuses to pay by credit card or revolving classic. If there is any exception to this rule is certainly unusual.
Unfortunately, prepaid cards are often not accepted on the Internet: Ebay and Amazon are a tangible example of this.
And yet, it should be noted that the prepaid cards can not be used as instruments collection, that is causing the buyer to reload the card vendor, because it makes use of publicly available personal data and sensitive card number and name holder.
By providing this information you will be exposed the abuse by third parties who are then able to carry on our paper unauthorized transactions such as purchases. As mentioned above, charges for such purchases will not be refunded nor reputation.
Therefore, you should evaluate the other products that are in the market for payment cards, credit cards and revolving classical, whose conditions are becoming increasingly attractive. American Express, Amex Blue, and Barclay card, for example, revolving credit cards offer free for life, leaving unchanged all the assurances and guarantees associated with them.
In addition, American Express, launched a bid most advantageous to the owners, so 1% annually reimburse the expenditure incurred by credit card.