Budget Travel - Easyjet Credit Card Fee Surcharge

Are there any sites to purchase an Easyjet ticket at the regular price (same base price as on their website) and that does not charge a 9.50e surcharge for VISA credit card? I know debit card is cheaper but I don't have one.

Not that I know of. Generally the only time you can get Easyjet flights outside of the Easyjet website is when they are combined with a hotel

Are there any sites to purchase an Easyjet ticket at the regular price (same base price as on their website) and that does not charge a 9.50e surcharge for VISA credit card? I know debit card is cheaper but I don't have one.

From the Easyjet site:
"All bookings will incur a €4.00 booking fee save for bookings made by Visa electron and Carte Bleue (domestic transactions)"

If you fly a lot, just as with Ryanair, it's worth getting a Visa Electron card

If I understand correctly, Visa Electrons are only available to UK residents? Not much use to anyone else.
It's like the travel insurance that Easyjet tries to sell you, and which you have to click on twice to get rid of. If you look at it in a bit more detail, you'll see it's also only for UK residents. I wonder if anyone has ever tried to claim it back after realizing they've been scammed?

If I understand correctly, Visa Electrons are only available to UK residents? Not much use to anyone else.
It's available in a number of European countries - though oddly enough you can't get them in Ireland which is where Ryanair is based

It's available in a number of European countries - though oddly enough you can't get them in Ireland which is where Ryanair is based

Correct - see Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_Electron)

I stand corrected - I even found a bank here in Switzerland (http://www.cornercard.ch/ch/html/fr/private_customers/new_customers/prepaidkarten/reload.html) (site not in English) which delivers them. However I did have to search very hard. It was buried very deep in their web site (I used Google Search on their website to find it!), so there's clearly no attempt to market the things. On top of that there's a 50 CHF yearly fee, as well as reload fees for using it.

In the UK they are intended for poor people who aren't to be trusted with money & normally will only come with the most basic of accounts.

As for other Europeans they can use Entropay which creates a virtual Electron Card for use with Ryanair and the like. They do charge for use, but it's a lot less than the theft that Ryanair do

As I have just found out a court in Germany has ruled credit card surcharges to be unlawful:

http://www.premiumpresse.de/billigflieger-ryanair-gericht-haelt-zahlungsgebuehr-fuer-unzulaessig--PR496592.html

(in German)

So - you may in future be able to avoid charges by using Easyjet's German site.

It'll be interesting to see if other EU countries will follow through. (The ruling cites EU law)

From the Easyjet site:
"All bookings will incur a €4.00 booking fee save for bookings made by Visa electron and Carte Bleue (domestic transactions)"

If you fly a lot, just as with Ryanair, it's worth getting a Visa Electron card

Looking at the fees for credit cards on Easyjet's site during booking, it is €9.50 for some cards. Visa Electron is free. Visa Electron is quite easy to get in Italy. You can get one from any Poste Italiane. It's called PostePay. You can recharge it online or through the post office. It costs €5 to get it and to recharge is €1 in person, or free online. The link is here http://www.poste.it/bancoposta/cartedipagamento/postepay.shtml

As I have just found out a court in Germany has ruled credit card surcharges to be unlawful:

http://www.premiumpresse.de/billigflieger-ryanair-gericht-haelt-zahlungsgebuehr-fuer-unzulaessig--PR496592.html

(in German)

So - you may in future be able to avoid charges by using Easyjet's German site.

It'll be interesting to see if other EU countries will follow through. (The ruling cites EU law)
I thought it's credit card's T&C with merchant that they aren't allowed to pick the surcharge as well. just that 1) the CC/banks do not pick on that, and 2) the surcharge is billed together with teh air ticket and neither CC nor bank can stop the charge.

I thought it's credit card's T&C with merchant that they aren't allowed to pick the surcharge as well. just that 1) the CC/banks do not pick on that, and 2) the surcharge is billed together with teh air ticket and neither CC nor bank can stop the charge.

Are you in the USA? I believe there are credit card T&Cs in the USA that prohibit surcharges, but there are no such rules in most of Europe (certainly not in the UK).

The ruling, as I read it, was based on EU rules about transparent pricing - i.e., you have to show the full cost from the word GO. European airlines are no longer allowed to advertise fares exclusive of fees and charges, and the court ruling says that credit card fees come under the fees and charges that must be displayed on the first screen (not the last one).