Amazon will stop accepting Visa credit cards in the UK from January 19, 2022, the online retail giant has said, citing high visa fee charges.
“The cost of accepting card payments continues to be an obstacle for businesses striving to provide the best prices for customers. These costs should be going down over time with technological advancements, but instead they continue to stay high or even rise,” an Amazon spokesperson said an in emailed statement to The Epoch Times. “As a result of Visa’s continued high cost of payments, we regret that Amazon.co.uk will no longer accept UK-issued Visa credit cards as of 19 January, 2022.”