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Re:Can the Visa-Mastercard duopoly be broken? by xur17 on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @08:54PM (#32503851)
They don't charge extra for credit card payments, but they pay the fee on the majority of their payments, so it's baked into their margin. The cash-back arrangement reduces this by ~1% in effect.
Re:Can the Visa-Mastercard duopoly be broken? by lxgr on Thursday August 18, 2022 @09:11AM (#32509104)
> The cash-back arrangement reduces this by ~1% in effect.

For people with good credit, as the article mentions. It's effectively yet another tax on the poor.