Mastercard Vs Visa

[Roobunny]

After a ridiculous and long fight with my credit card company this morning (peoples maiden names cannot change) I've decided to tell them to cancel my Mastercard because I refuse to do business with them anymore.

Now my query is that I want to get a new credit card with a different company but I'm not sure if I should stick with a Mastercard.

My fiance and I have a VISA as part of a line of credit account we have and as we like to travel a lot (and will travel overseas more often in the future) I'm not sure if it's useful to have both a Mastercard and a VISA so we can use them both overseas or if the coverage of VISA is good enough around the world that I can get a VISA credit card.

Any thoughts?

 

[Lidge]

No real difference between either (fees, coverage etc)

 

[hawkeye23]

Courts, Visa is accepted at marginally more places than Mastercard, if that helps. That said, it's probably not financially feasible for me to have 2 Visas and 1 Mastercard

 

[year of the roo]

I've been travelling throughout Europe for a while now and every place that has VISA has Mastercard. There is no difference there. The difference lies within the company/institution issuing the card and the fees and rates that they charge.

Shop around different companies, not types of card.

 

[utility]

Visa has slightly more coverage but as mentioned shop around for the best deal.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

After a ridiculous and long fight with my credit card company this morning (peoples maiden names cannot change) I've decided to tell them to cancel my Mastercard because I refuse to do business with them anymore.

Now my query is that I want to get a new credit card with a different company but I'm not sure if I should stick with a Mastercard.

My fiance and I have a VISA as part of a line of credit account we have and as we like to travel a lot (and will travel overseas more often in the future) I'm not sure if it's useful to have both a Mastercard and a VISA so we can use them both overseas or if the coverage of VISA is good enough around the world that I can get a VISA credit card.

Any thoughts?

If you're paranoid you might want to get your credit rating checked out in case you think the Mastercard people may have put a cross against your name.

Dunn & Bradstree have a free service via smail mail ..
https://secure.dnb.com.au/ccb/AU/your_credit_file.asp

Cheers