Originally Posted By: ponder
Currently the US credit card system is down. It has been down for 45 minutes. No one without cash can purchase gas, food or any other necessities.

95% of our customers in the last hour have not had cash.

Gun sales - 0
Ammunition sales - 0

Just remember in the future - CARRY CASH!

UPDATE !!!!!!!!!!!!18:32 HRS
85% of the US visa is down.
40,000 transactions/minute are not going thru.


The whole US credit card system is NOT down...

My work is closely tied to the cc industry and I can tell you right now that it depends on where you are located and who you as a business are relying on as your cc processor.

40,000 transactions per minute is a literal drop in the bucket and many of these transactions are duplicates as people keep retrying to auth the same card.

If you are using First Data services which processes Envoy, Nabanco, CES and a couple of others, yes their system is down and should be back online shortly.

All other cc processors are online and working fine......