Staff emails claim Boeing 777X ‘shares Max problem’

Re:Staff emails claim Boeing 777X ‘shares Max problem’ by tjohns on Sunday January 19, 2020 @03:35PM (#22093866)

Venmo is far from ubiquitous. (None of my friends or family have a Venmo account, for instance. They prefer other apps like Square Cash / Google Pay / PayPal, or don’t use payment apps at all.)

Debit cards are not popular here because they tend to lack robust fraud protection - and even if they did, your bank account could easily be zeroed for weeks while they work to reverse the fraudulent charges.

Also, debit cards still have an interchange fee here. It’s cheaper than credit cards, but even for a small purchase there’s usually a $0.20 minimum fee - which is too much for microtransactions.

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Re:Staff emails claim Boeing 777X ‘shares Max problem’ by jiofih on Monday January 20, 2020 @04:25AM (#22097590)

> they tend to lack robust fraud protection

That’s funny. Debit cards have always been PIN based and way safer than credit. I’ve never personally heard of a single case of fraud.

There is nothing stopping micropayments from happening as a technology, except political/market incentives. It’s already a reality everywhere else, even north Africa. Rationalizing it just solidifies the status quo.

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