::::VISA ELECTRON CARD::::

Advantages: You don't need to carry cash!
Disadvantages: Many places don't accept it!

...I was reading my guestbook when I noticed a note from lilkayb telling me to get writing, so here goes: ::::VISA ELECTRON CARD:::: I have had an account at Lloyds TSB since I was about eleven years old, this was then known as a Young Savers Account, When you get to 16, it changes to a Current Account. All I had to go with the account was a paying in book and a cashpoint card. When I was fifteen I damaged my Cashpoint card and requested a new one, a few days later I recieved a letter from the bank containing my new card, only it wasn't the card I'd wanted. They had sent me a cheque guarantee card, only problem was I didn't have a cheque book! I rang later that day to tell them what i'd requested and what i'd recieved, the lady on the phone was very helpful and assured that my cashpoint card would be through the post very shortly...

JADELOUISESILVA 24.07.2003 · Read review
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.:: Visa Electron ::.

Advantages: Use abroad and in UK, accepted in most retail outlets
Disadvantages: Not many online retailers accept

.... Overall, it is ideal for young people providing they have money in their account (your card will not be able to go overdrawn), and is accepted at most retail outlets. Some online stores will not accept your Electron card, but places like Amazon do - make sure you read the payment methods accepted column in the FAQs or help section before signing up. You are not allowed a cheque book until you are 16 with all banks, which will prove a problem with mail order companies etc. If you are interested in getting an Electron card, my review is based on Barclays (note that you are not eligible for internet banking until you are over 16)....

tnet9202 16.07.2005 · Read review
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Visa Electron

Advantages: One of the only debit cards available to under 18s
Disadvantages: Not accepted everywhere

...There are only two debit cards that I know of which are available to under 18's, one being Visa Electron and the other being Solo. I decided when I was 17 that I wanted a debit card, as they are so much easier than carrying cash around with me - and much safer too. My bank account at the time was with Lloyds TSB, but they could not offer me any type of debit card because of my age. After finding out that Halifax would be able to give me an account with a Visa Electron card I quickly accepted and opened a new account with them. My card arrived, and I hit the shops! It was so easy to be able to walk around town with my Visa Electron in my wallet and just a small sum of cash for the places which don't take it. I felt safer, knowing that if my purse was stolen I didn't have any cash in there to lose, and that my debit card could...

gem412 20.01.2006 · Read review
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Electronic Book Reader A+

Advantages: easy instructions, very easy on the eyes, runs on both batteries and electricity, can store many books, etc...
Disadvantages: price may be too high for some $269.00 U.S (Pro) or $199.00 (regular) plus shipping and handling

...Rocket e-book is an electronic book reader used to read electronic books. Electronic books are books but are not written on paper. You have to read the books on your computer screen or on an electronic reader such as the Rocket e-book reader. You can get loads of information on the electronic reader at http://www.Rocket-eBook.com. I bought one online using a secure line with my credit card (Rocket eBook Pro) at Powells.com about two months ago. Now I am in reading heaven. I can download the electronic books from various online publishers right into my little reader. I found the e-reader extremely easy on the eyes, easy to use and it is even shaped like a paperback novel. The instructions are quite simple to follow and most of the electronic books I've downloaded and read on the rocket book have been excellent. Currently...

hermit_jan 29.08.2000 · Read review
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Visa Electron: I want one even here!

Advantages: is accepted worldwide, spend what you have, no fee at Ryanair and Easyjet
Disadvantages: some internet and normal stores don't accept it

...even now, and the reason why I won't close it is because I find Visa Electrons useful. I have used Visa Electron online through many shops before I was able to get a Visa Debit Card, and I never had any problem to have my card accepted. There are two shops I keep on using it even now that I own a Visa Debit card and Mastercard: -- Ryanair -- Easyjet You know the reason why? When you book a flight online with Easyjet or Ryanair, you are asked to pay a debit card fee of £1.60 (if you pay with Solo/Maestro/Visa Debit) or a Credit Card fee of £3.00 (if you pay with Visa credit or Mastercard, even if it's the Ryanair one! Now, Visa Electron is another of the possible choices, and the ONLY one that is free of charge. My first bank account with the Halifax was an Easycash account, recently upgraded to a Visa Electron. Although now I have...

Kagomesama 24.09.2004 (12.02.2008) · Read review
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Power Off... The Visa Electron

Advantages: Increased Online Security, Will Eventually Replace The Visa, Excellent And Fast Customer Service, Usually A Good Account Package (From My Experience With Barclays And The Abbey National)
Disadvantages: 7.5 million outlets in the UK accept the card. 11.8 million do not, and most smaller shops havent even heard of it. Online usage is still very difficult as most sites still dont accept it.

...The Falcon writes... Whilst the Visa Electron, the new 'Electronic Use Only' card from Visa, seems like a fantastic idea since it offers increased security for internet transactions, and a long needed update to the Visa system, and a host of other things your 'Personal Banker' will speil off at you, the card has one quite major flaw. Unlike its father the Visa, which has become the global electronic currency, the fledgling Electron is not accepted in very many places at all. In fact, apart from your large chain stores like Woolworths and Tesco, it's hardly accepted anywhere at all. And on the internet, which, as the name suggests, is the main area your card is meant to be used, it is hardly accepted anywhere! I do alot of internet surfing and consequently alot of shopping too, at the major sites like amazon...

the_midnight_falcon 14.04.2001 · Read review
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Electron Shock

Advantages: can't see any
Disadvantages: not accepted everywhere or online

...My bank recently issued me with the sexy looking Visa Electron card which replaced my previous multifunction card. And when I tried to make my first transaction on the internet I got to find out how pants it is. Hardly any internet sites can take it and few can accept a transaction over the phone so, what I ask, is the point? It clearly states on the front of the card that it is a DEBIT CARD and as such is really an electronic cheque. Actually it is better than a cheque because it works on an up-to-date balance in your account and therefore, theoretically, it should be impossible to use it if you haven't got the cash in your account (or overdraft facility) to back it up. I wonder why then it is so unacceptable in so many places - including branches of WH Smith who tell me they have no plans to accept it in the near future...

w1ldrover 25.02.2001 · Read review
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Oscar Wilde's obsession with books

Advantages: Full of fascinating information about Wilde's life and love of books
Disadvantages: None really, except maybe best enjoyed by those with some prior knowledge of Wilde

...The controversial Victorian playwright and poet Oscar Wilde, so the introduction to this book tells us, ?devoured and luxuriated in books?. He had a lifelong thirst for reading, so it?s not surprising to find that his house in Chelsea was packed with them. Not only was he an avid collector, but he was also an accomplished speed reader with a remarkable ? and to some extent photographic ? memory which helped him to absorb and recall instantly vast amounts of prose and verse. As a reviewer for the Pall Mall Gazette, he could master a book's content, plot or argument in minutes. (If only ciao had been around in those days as well). Maybe it is only fair to get the one major chink in his armour out of the way quickly. Once, when he was preparing a lecture on the poet Chatterton, most of his notes were made up of entire pages and paragraphs...

JOHNV 24.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of Oscar's Books - Thomas Wright

A Book Lover

Advantages: Well-drawn characters. Creative use of words.
Disadvantages: A little difficult to adjust to the changing style of writing

...The Book Thief written by Australian author Marcus Zusak was published in Australia in 2005 as an adult novel and in America in 2006 as a children?s novel. It finally came to the UK in 2007 published by Doubleday and Black Swan in both adult and teen-age versions. Though I have to admit, I do not know what the differences between the two versions are! My copy and the one I am reviewing is the adult version. The novel proved to be a triumphant success greeted by glowing accolades from a wide range of literary reviewers ? excerpts of which can be found in the book. The most apt from The Irish Examiner, ?A peculiar tale, whose deceptively plain language and cryptic style describe the most profound of human emotions and the most hideous of human actions . . . an unusual and compelling novel? Set in Nazi Germany during the Second World...

MAFARRIMOND 03.06.2009 · Read review
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Tweenies Book

Advantages: children will enjoy it
Disadvantages: none unless your child wants you to read it about 10 times a day

...I got this book from a book club for my eldest and now my youngest likes to look at it. It's a hard back book with each page inside being double thin card so that the pull out pictures are fitted in the middle of them. The book is called 'Come Back Colours' because Doodles (The red dog) has lost its colour and so have all the Tweenies toys. The front cover has a picture of the youngest Tweenie Jake and the colourless Doodles, when you open the book you see a picture of the other Tweenies (Milo, Bella and Fizz) on the opposite page is Jake with his special cape opening his arms to the colourless Doodles. The story starts ' One day, Jake put on his special coloured cape.' His job was to look after the colours but where have Doodles colours gone? Jake comes to the rescue waves his arms and says 'Colours come and colours go...

rojm 26.11.2009 · Read review
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