I live in Germany and here it doesn't matter if you have an Maestro or VPay card. What matters is if you don´t have the GiroCard Software on your card, you will have many problems at many places. For example the Maruyasu in Düsseldorf doesn't accept normal Maestros, even if they are from a German company called "N26"... They only accept Giro Card. In Bruxelles I wasn't able to pay with my Maestro because they only accepted Maestros with Minister Pay or how ever its called...
In REWE you can pay with almost everything. With Maestro, VPay, MasterCard/Visa Card, Amex and many more... But there are many places which only accept Credit Cards or only ELV cards. But the most places I´ve been (NRW in Germany, Limburg and Noord Brabant in the Netherlands as well as in Austria, Spain, France and Belgium), I was able to pay both with Maestro and Master/Visa Credit/Debit Card, some of them accepted both Maestro and VPay and some of them didn't accepted normal cards at all (only MinisterPay, GiroCard etc). So it would make more sense for us all to stop these terrific complicated technologies with country specific card types and use real Maestro, MasterCard and Visa cards which are accepted in whole Europe (and with exception for VPay world wide). But that would mean that all European countries have to change this on their own and force their shops and financial companies to change this. Thats what I think about it. What do you think?
So why should it be better to have a VPay Card which is only accepted in Europe, if you could have a Maestro where you can pay at more places at all?