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Originally Posted by sexus
Extract from a recent report....
At the end of 2003, there were 542m payment (credit, debit and charge) cards in western Europe and, of these, 134m were held in the UK. Germany is the second largest card market in Europe, since being overtaken by the UK in 2001.
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There you go - even Germans have them. Explains why so many joins are sent by them despite the fact that they're meant to have a card allergy. But then, in the UK at least, debit cards have been HUGE for a long, long while, more so than in the US. If a site takes credit cards it also takes debit cards too.