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Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by kjkjadksj on Friday July 18, 2025 @10:08PM (#44611929)
No issues buying Marlboro reds with the credit card of course.
Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by akerl_ on Friday July 18, 2025 @10:15PM (#44611958)
Cigarette purchasers aren’t filing chargebacks when their partner checks the billing history, claiming their card got stolen.
Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by FireBeyond on Friday July 18, 2025 @10:28PM (#44612031)
Are dietary supplement purchasers doing so?
Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by tptacek on Friday July 18, 2025 @10:34PM (#44612063)
Extremely, infamously, yes.
Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by tptacek on Friday July 18, 2025 @10:17PM (#44611974)
Have you ever returned a pack of cigarettes? They basically do what you expect them to do.
Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by kjkjadksj on Saturday July 19, 2025 @01:46AM (#44612891)
I figured the reason was not wanting to support something harmful to the customer like a fake diet pill. Call me naive for letting that assumption of even a glimmer of empathy affect my guestimation. I should have known it was pure greed all the way down and due to something like this instead.
Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by spauldo on Saturday July 19, 2025 @04:54PM (#44619295)
I would take pure greed over a company imposing its morals on me.
Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by markdown on Monday July 21, 2025 @05:32AM (#44633294)
Like I said above, they are banning foods, not companies. Foods that do exactly what the vendors claim they do. Foods that are regulated by he FDA as foods. Foods that are listed in the Codex Alimentarius.