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[119attendees] credit card surcharges

Jim Reid <jim@rfc1035.com> Sun, 31 March 2024 00:52 UTC

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> On 30 Mar 2024, at 16:39, Ran Atkinson <ran.atkinson@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I can’t really blame the business, since the credit card companies deduct anywhere from 1-3% of the total charge.

IMO, that’s just one of the costs of doing business and the merchant should just suck it up.* They’d be paying their bank a similar percentage for depositing cash. Or cheques if you’re in a part of the world which still uses that primitive technology.

* Which of course means that charge gets silently included in the price paid by the customer.

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