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The merchants would probably love to do that if cash handling related costs were lower.

• ahartmetz 8y ago
  Their contracts with credit card companies forbid different prices for credit card and cash. It's slightly insane IMO.
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  • ensignavenger 8y ago
    That used to be true, but it was ruled illegal and so it is not anymore. See https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/as-rules-change-more-retailers-offer-discounts-for-cash-payments/2013/06/29/d4c84d7a-dcfc-11e2-bd83-e99e43c336ed_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.6e45a190c290 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/as-r...
• senderista 8y ago
  I had around $25K stolen via a skimmed debit card from my Chase checking account (in a few hundred separate transactions). I finally noticed after about 6 weeks; they never did until I told them. This despite the fact that all the fraudulent transactions took place at least 100 miles from my residence, some as far as 2000 miles away. I did get all my money back eventually, but it took a month or two and a ton of back-and-forth in person and on the phone to sort out the bad transactions from the good ones (mostly due to their lack of attention to detail). I stopped using debit cards after that (and started monitoring my daily balance).