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Re:Visa, Mastercard mull increasing fees for processing tran... by vardump on Friday February 15, 2019 @04:53PM (#19175056)
The merchants would probably love to do that if cash handling related costs were lower.
Re:Visa, Mastercard mull increasing fees for processing tran... by ahartmetz on Friday February 15, 2019 @05:44PM (#19175441)
Their contracts with credit card companies forbid different prices for credit card and cash. It's slightly insane IMO.
Re:Visa, Mastercard mull increasing fees for processing tran... by ensignavenger on Friday February 15, 2019 @05:59PM (#19175540)
That used to be true, but it was ruled illegal and so it is not anymore. See https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/as-r...
Re:Visa, Mastercard mull increasing fees for processing tran... by senderista on Saturday February 16, 2019 @12:44AM (#19177274)
I had around $25K stolen via a skimmed debit card from my Chase checking account (in a few hundred separate transactions). I finally noticed after about 6 weeks; they never did until I told them. This despite the fact that all the fraudulent transactions took place at least 100 miles from my residence, some as far as 2000 miles away. I did get all my money back eventually, but it took a month or two and a ton of back-and-forth in person and on the phone to sort out the bad transactions from the good ones (mostly due to their lack of attention to detail). I stopped using debit cards after that (and started monitoring my daily balance).