the diners club credit card

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who in the world has one? why do businesses bother accepting it?

is it just for poles?
http://www.pkobp.pl/download/products/000000000000096/diners-club.jpg

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 21:29 (twenty years ago)

i had one. its a little frightening paying everything off at the end of the month. its a lot of work.

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 22:21 (twenty years ago)

and youre right, barely anyone takes it.

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 22:21 (twenty years ago)

is it just for ~~poles~~australian-arkansans?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 22:24 (twenty years ago)

Diners club in the US is now the same as a Mastercard. Citibank took it over a year or so ago. I've had one for ages.

― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 22:26 (twenty years ago)

i heard it was becoming a credit card rather than a charge card. American express did the same thing years ago. charge cards rock for businesses and for keeping yourself out of debt but a $2000 bill every month sucks ass

x-post - ha maybe. i never knew anyone else dumb/brave enough to use it as a charge card.

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 22:36 (twenty years ago)

if i am not mistaken, diners' club is REAL old-school as far as credit cards go. may have been the first one, actually.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 22:46 (twenty years ago)

my dad had one of these. I associate it with business trips that you make your bosses pay for.

my parents also had a montgomery wards charge card which never expired; it was from like 1968. I remember they finally changed that and sent out new ones in the late 80's and they were bummed!

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 22:50 (twenty years ago)

it was

― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 22:51 (twenty years ago)

It was the first one. Depending on your history, you get the option to use it as a credit card, up to a limit. It's useful as a charge card if you travel excessively since it has no real limit (like a standard AmEx), but can be painful if an expense check is delayed. But now it's accepted everywhere MC is, rather than just hotels/airlines/restaurants.

― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 22:53 (twenty years ago)

isn't it the one telly savalas was spokesman for?

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 22:58 (twenty years ago)

Is visa more common than master card? All of my personal cards are visa bit my work one is MC and that seems to be the case with a lot of people I know. Doesn't eem to make the slightest bit of difference though.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 23:02 (twenty years ago)

No, andrew. That was the Player With Yourself Card.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 23:12 (twenty years ago)

i thought most people didnt take diners because of the fees they charge. maybe they dropped them? does mastercard own diners now? i used to work in a liquor store that took amex and diners but tried to discourage it because, for example, if someone bought an $8 bottle of wine with their diners or american exp. card, the store would have to pay a $4 fee to the credit company. it made any small purchase sale pointless for the store owner.
it still blows my mind that i could buy a $2 happy meal with a diners charge card.

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 16 March 2006 13:58 (twenty years ago)

Citi owns Diners, if I recall correctly. MC and Visa are "owned" by groups of banks. Amex is freestanding.

― Mitya (mitya), Thursday, 16 March 2006 14:06 (twenty years ago)

fuck. I used to work at a place where DC was the corporate card ...

I was a consultant there and I suggested that the boss (who worked there) take the new team members out for lunch. When the bill came, he presented his Diner's Club card. "Uh, sorry, we don't even know what that is." And his wife had "the visa card" that day. Way to impress...

Nearly the same thing happened to me on a trip where my coworker only had a Discover card. He couldn't check into the hotel...

― Dave NSFW (dave225.3), Thursday, 16 March 2006 14:10 (twenty years ago)

I don't like accepting this cause I have to pay more percentage to the credit card company. I think American Express is even worse, I can't remember. Bestest for us is of course VISA/Mastercard.

I read the text on that JPG posted above as Roman Polanski instead of PKO Bank Polski. I'm going a bit gaga.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 16 March 2006 14:22 (twenty years ago)

OK there are seriously hotels that are still holding out against Discover card?

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 16 March 2006 21:43 (twenty years ago)

http://www.cavanaughsrestaurant.com/images/cards_multi.png

Diner's Club is OG like Carte Blanche... I used to know this old guy that had bartended at the Mark Hopkins and he told me the story of the first time somebody flashed a Diner's card in the 50's. He had no idea what it was but his boss told him to accept it!

― andy --, Thursday, 16 March 2006 21:52 (twenty years ago)

"In 1950, Diners Club and American Express launched their charge cards in the USA, the first 'plastic money'. In 1951, Diners Club issued the first credit card to 200 customers who could use it at 27 restaurants in New York. But it was only until the establishment of standards for the magnetic strip in 1970 that the credit card became part of the information age..."

― andy --, Thursday, 16 March 2006 21:55 (twenty years ago)

OK there are seriously hotels that are still holding out against Discover card?

hard though it is to believe, this IS still true.

if diners club and carte blanche are the OGs of the credit card world, then discover is its eminem (i.e., a white-trashy upstart).

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 16 March 2006 22:02 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't Discover started by Sears?

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 16 March 2006 22:04 (twenty years ago)

Seems like I had some difficulty with Paypal and Discover. I don't remember. I deal exclusively in gold now.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 16 March 2006 22:20 (twenty years ago)

A guy tried to use a Paypal card in a liquor store a couple weeks ago and it took forever... the Korean shopkeeper was getting pissed and muttering under her breath.

― andy --, Thursday, 16 March 2006 23:10 (twenty years ago)

Discover is unknown outside the US, JCB is more widely accepted.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 16 March 2006 23:47 (twenty years ago)

Great moments in Futurama:

Salesman: $30, please.

Fry: $30? I can't afford that. Unless... [He pulls out his wallet.] Do you take Visa?

Salesman: Visa hasn't existed for 500 years.

Fry: American Express?

Salesman: 600 years.

Fry: Discover card?

Salesman: Sorry we don't take Discover.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Friday, 17 March 2006 00:11 (twenty years ago)

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