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Re:Robinhood Accounts Looted, No Customer Support by snazz on Friday October 09, 2020 @07:16PM (#24735378)
Some people with particularly bad spending habits use debit cards as a way to enforce self-control, but there are probably much better ways of achieving that. Teenagers also use them when paying with their own money because you can't have a credit card until you're 18 unless it's an authorized user card on your parents' account. Costco used to make you pay with a debit card, if I remember correctly.

But those are pretty much edge cases. Credit builder and secured credit cards exist for people with poor or no credit.

Re:Robinhood Accounts Looted, No Customer Support by yencabulator on Friday October 09, 2020 @09:26PM (#24736019)
> Costco used to make you pay with a debit card, if I remember correctly.

Costco, gas stations, and some mom & pop shops really want to save on that credit card processing fee.

Personally, I consider missing out on the cash discount at a gas station a convenience & fraud protection fee.

Re:Robinhood Accounts Looted, No Customer Support by brewdad on Saturday October 10, 2020 @02:13PM (#24740734)
Costco used to have an exclusivity deal with AmEx that prevented other credit cards from being accepted. They did accept debit cards however.

They now have a deal with Visa, along with their own branded Visa card but will accept any bank's Visa card.