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> Germans love their cash. I think it has to do with generations. I see more and more stores (even bakeries, O.M.G.!) accepting cards without lower limits - an
by MrGilbert 7y ago
> Germans love their cash.
I think it has to do with generations. I see more and more stores (even bakeries, O.M.G.!) accepting cards without lower limits - and I live in a town with ~80.000 people.
Give it some more years, and it will work out.
- anoncake 7y agoAFAIK card limits have been illegal for some years.
- vassilyk 7y agoWhere? Germany? In France I don't know what is the regulation but still many places will ask for minimum charges, sometimes around 10€. In the UK I sometimes pay for a single Banana by card, 50p (0.6€). When I do, I wonder if the highest carbon footprint was from the payment processing or the banana processing!
- anoncake 7y agoGermany but if there's an actual law it's probably EU-wide. I haven't found one but I have found rumors that PSD2 banned minimum charges. I guess everyone is complying to a phantom law.
- mehrdadn 7y agoAFAIK they've been allowed and disallowed and re-allowed under contracts with the payment networks over the years; currently I think at least in the US they're allowed, but regardless, I'm not aware of them having been illegal.