Re:Home Depot Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Visa, MasterCard
by wvenable on Friday June 17, 2016 @01:28PM
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Both tap and chip and pin are so fast now in Canada that it's great. The US payment infrastructure is still mostly terrible. In many cases, even with chip cards it's chip and signature!
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Re:Home Depot Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Visa, MasterCard
by seanp2k2 on Friday June 17, 2016 @02:29PM
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We don't have pins on our chip cards and as far as I'm aware, no bank is issuing CCs with pins with or without a chip. Debit cards use PINs, but bring a host of other liability problems to the user, and almost universally lack the rewards programs which consumers with good credit take advantage of (because hey, I get 2-3% towards travel expenses while paying the same).
Re:Home Depot Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Visa, MasterCard
by wvenable on Friday June 17, 2016 @03:07PM
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> We don't have pins on our chip cards
That seems to be true, what I can't figure out is why.
Re:Home Depot Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Visa, MasterCard
by Apatheist on Saturday June 18, 2016 @04:19AM
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Because the fees on signature transactions are higher.
Re:Home Depot Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Visa, MasterCard
by mikelward on Saturday June 18, 2016 @01:57PM
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Are you sure? The only information I can find that agrees with you is about debit cards, where PIN means it uses a different payment network. Credit PIN uses the same network as credit signature, so it seems unlikely the fees would be different.