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Re:Great work Visa, now I hate you by omarrr on Monday August 06, 2012 @06:41PM (#4347689)
A better marketing approach to this would have been to silently only accept VISA and never call attention to the fact that there is an arrangement behind the scenes.

Still pretty awful for your potential customers.

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Re:Great work Visa, now I hate you by sigkill on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @04:01AM (#4349173)
"Sir, your card is being rejected. Do you have a VISA card that I can try? It seems for the past few days, those are the only ones that seem to work for anyone around here."

This would be a bit of scumbaggery but pure marketing genius I say.

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Re:Great work Visa, now I hate you by seunosewa on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @10:47AM (#4350319)
... until the press finds out!
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Re:Great work Visa, now I hate you by sigkill on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @10:53AM (#4350347)
Is there any technical barrier that prevents the swiping machine from accepting another card? If so, you could literally show them that "Look, it isn't working"
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