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by WeylandYutani
1099 days ago
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Dutch banks all got together some 15 years ago to devise the perfect online payment system: iDeal. Pretty much everyone uses it. Checkmate PayPal and Visa card. But the best secondary effect was that it locks out foreign banks who can't be arsed to set up a local branch and apply for a banking license. |
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How often do you read on Dutch forums [1] whether they paid with iDeal? Because if you do, your only recourse is to either sue them (which the Dutch rarely do) or open a dispute with the Thuiswinkel Waarborg [2].
For as long as I bought stuff online in The Netherlands I used a credit card. If they didn't offer it I'd find someone else.
[1] https://tweakers.net (tweaking as in tinkering, not the other kind)
[2] https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuiswinkel_Waarborg