This problem should be of interest to merchants who depend on the reliability of credit-card payment processing over the Internet. I seek your advice on behalf of a young entrepreneur based in Oregon. Her business is routed through a web site - the merchant, to whom I am trying to transfer funds from my Mastercard account. The payments are being blocked with the message, "Issuing bank temporarily unavailable". The issuing bank insists it is indeed available to transfer funds from my account in the UK, to the merchant's account in the US. Both the issuing bank and the merchant report being totally clueless about this message and the reason the transaction is being blocked. I have never had this problem before when using the same card to pay the same merchant. Have you or your members encountered this problem before? If not, this might at least be valuable feedback on what can and does go wrong with payment-processing services. You pay high enough fees for these services without losing business because problems like this occur and remain unresolved. Thanks if you get back! Jed. ritesaidjed@aol.com

Wed Nov 10 2010, 02:05 - UK - Money and Finances - 0 No Answers