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Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry... by ryanlol on Monday May 31, 2021 @02:36AM (#27340930)
s/consumers/americans/

In Europe credit cards are not very common, and debit card transactions are often not reversible.

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Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry... by colinb on Monday May 31, 2021 @04:36AM (#27341694)
I don't know where you're sitting right now. I'm sitting in Europe, and credit card transactions are quite common where I live. Europe is a big place. Even within the EU there is plenty of room for difference.

A generalisation like this is no better than the frequent occurrence of HNers posting articles headlined with "the nation" which mean "the USA".

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Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry... by ryanlol on Monday May 31, 2021 @08:58AM (#27343606)
It is not unreasonable to speak of Europe as a whole. Credit card transactions are common where I live, but not in most of Europe.
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Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry... by Johnwbh on Monday May 31, 2021 @05:10AM (#27341956)
That's just false. You can do chargeback on debit card transactions fairly easily https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/reclaim/visa-mastercard-ch...
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Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry... by ryanlol on Monday May 31, 2021 @09:01AM (#27343628)
UK specific article.

Anyone who has worked with payment processing can tell you how rare debit card chargebacks are, this is because they’re usually vastly more difficult.

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