Millions of shoppers across the UK and Europe have been sent in a frenzy after VISA services crash, leaving it impossible to process card payments.
Online shoppers are advised to wait to use their credit or debit cards whilst shoppers have to go to cash points before purchasing in stores, as they are unable to pay by card.
Customers are furious and are in a state of confusion as to why the system has suddenly glitched, leaving people unable to buy anything without cash in hand.
VISA in a general statement said "this incident is preventing some Visa transactions in Europe from being processed. We are investigating the cause and working as quickly as possible to resolve the situation."
There has been no confirmed reason to what caused the outage and how long it will take before shoppers can resume shopping with their VISA cards.
Just about all retailers across the UK and Europe have displayed "cash only" notices meaning that you will have to go to a cash point before having the ability to purchase anything.
More people question the reliability if society one day became cashless if people were to just rely on card payments without the use of cash in hand.
Shoppers took to Twitter to express their frustration:
The amount of times I had to tell customers tonight that #visa payments were down was... ugh so many angry customers who only wanted some nuggies they couldn’t get— Emilyy (@bookaddictemily) June 1, 2018
Omg girl I feel you, the woman only decided to tell me after my card got declined twice that visa was down but the £38.85 has still been taken, twice. I'm so angry my rent goes out Monday not I have no money due to this.— girl with the ufo tattoo 👽 (@sabrinaxdua) June 1, 2018
Jesus - every store is full of queues of angry people who have had their Visa card denied. Cash only! Apparently EU wide?— Matt Haswell (@mhaswell) June 1, 2018
this visa thing had better be sorted before I go to work tomorrow bc I really am not feeling explaining to angry pensioners they can't have their needlessly complicated coffee— morgan (@morgu4) June 1, 2018
While shoppers were angry, some joked through the mayhem, even mocking the recent TSB technical issues that millions have also faced these past few weeks.
TSB: “we’re going to create the biggest IT disaster that the world has ever seen”— Ryan Orchard (@RyanOrchard96) June 1, 2018
Visa: “hold my beer”#visa #visadown
Pretty pleased with my first day as head of payment processing for Visa.— Mr Roger Quimbly (@RogerQuimbly) June 1, 2018
Obviously MasterCard would never dream of tweeting such a thing, so I thought I’d mock it up for them instead. #Visa pic.twitter.com/5qol6btiGu— Nick Harvey (@mrnickharvey) June 1, 2018
The system is still down and there is no word as to when VISA systems will be operating again, but it is advised that you should go to a cash point and withdraw money before buying in store.
We will keep you updated if any change occurs.
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