Re:Richard Stallman: We Can Do Better Than Bitcoin
by thesimon on Monday November 26, 2018 @08:02AM
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>In practice, I don’t know of anyone offering 0.3% card processing fees
Obviously. They need to pay 0.2%-0.3% to the issuer (ie. the bank that gives you your card), but VISA/MasterCard and the processor want their cut as well.
> Can you point me to any cheaper solutions?
At least in Germany there are quite some cheap POS solutions:
0.69% for Visa/MasterCard:
https://translate.google.de/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&u=ht...
0.98% for Visa/MasterCard:
https://translate.google.de/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&u=ht...
Can you point me to any cheaper solutions?
I like the idea of having the processing fees displayed prominently on the receipt though (like VAT). If people had to actually pay more to use Amex (rather than the merchant absorbing the blow, or distributing the costs across their other customers), then they might quickly go out of business (and rightly so).