Roland Perry wrote:
All American Express contactless payment cards.

Hurrah (although I don't know how many of them actually exist)

Nearly all MasterCard and Maestro contactless payment cards issued
outside the UK are accepted.

The majority of cards that aren't accepted are issued in the USA,
Canada and the Netherlands.

So no details, and pretty insignificant sources of tourists to the UK.

There are also a few other cards that may not be accepted.

Unspecified, again.

If your card is rejected on our services, please contact your card
issuer.

That's a great help to someone on holiday.

Some Visa and V PAY contactless payment cards from countries other
than the UK are not accepted for contactless travel on our
services.

Unspecified

Visa expects all its contactless payment cards to be accepted in
the near future.

We are sat on the edge of our seats.

Contactless payment cards issued on other platforms, such as Diners
Club, JCB or Union Pay are not accepted.

Hard luck.

I rather think TfL would garner more complaints than praise
if they paid staff/contractors to go and acquire contactless cards from
every single issuer of the same in every country which issues them or
paid holders of every such card to come to London to test their cards.
And I doubt they'd get very far by asking for contactless cards, linked
to accounts with funds, to be sent to them for test transactions. So I
am unclear what you expect or propose that TfL do to provide better
guidance.

In the meantime it seems to me TfL's guidance is the converse of the way
card issuers don't guarantee their contactless cards will be accepted by
every reader in every country.


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