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Re:How to Found a Company in Germany: 14 "Easy" Steps and Lo... by mk89 on Sunday April 07, 2024 @04:32PM (#39963636)
I don't have enough experience to speak about CC in Germany, but I don't see why a Rewe or ... boh, Aldi, Mcdonalds, etc should prevent that. I am a bit surprised, to be honest.
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Re:How to Found a Company in Germany: 14 "Easy" Steps and Lo... by ricc on Sunday April 07, 2024 @04:38PM (#39963683)
Big chains and enterprises, for sure. But there’s still a lot of SMBs not accepting credit cards.
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Re:How to Found a Company in Germany: 14 "Easy" Steps and Lo... by mk89 on Sunday April 07, 2024 @04:53PM (#39963809)
Are these the same SMBs that ... accept only cash? :) Or do they really exclude CCs?
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Re:How to Found a Company in Germany: 14 "Easy" Steps and Lo... by ricc on Sunday April 07, 2024 @05:01PM (#39963880)
They exclude CCs. They have a card reader but they either have a sign saying, or the vendor will simply say, “keine Kreditkarte”.
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Re:How to Found a Company in Germany: 14 "Easy" Steps and Lo... by 4ad on Sunday April 07, 2024 @05:26PM (#39964087)
If you use contactless payments, this is a non-issue, they can't detect it. Although they wish they could.
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Re:How to Found a Company in Germany: 14 "Easy" Steps and Lo... by amaccuish on Monday April 08, 2024 @08:46AM (#39969147)
So a lot will have in their contract with their processor that they actually can accept Visa/Mastercard, so the sign is there to put you off.

But actually a lot don't, and when you try to pay, even contactless, with a non-Girocard, it won't work.

Visa and Mastercard don't magically let you on their network because you have a card machine.

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Re:How to Found a Company in Germany: 14 "Easy" Steps and Lo... by avar on Monday April 08, 2024 @10:45AM (#39970287)
Because there's a significant a transaction fee if you're paying by credit card, with cash or debit card there's no transaction fee.

The bigger mystery is why stores in some other countries are happy to have a payment method chosen by the customer eat into their profit.

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