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VISA now has an online merchant violation report form

sharkey

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in michigan it is common to see 2 prices at gas stations. a cash price and a credit price. i wonder if this violates visa's rules.

Not anymore since the law changed.
I think it's the same law that got us carry in national parks but I could be wrong.

http://usa.visa.com/personal/using_visa/checkout_fees/index.html


Retailers Can Offer a Discount for Cash and Check Purchases

Retailers can encourage their customers to use other forms of payment, such as cash and checks, and can discount for PIN debit and cash and checks provided that the offer is made to all respective buyers.

ETA: Got a lot of free time?

You can verify if this is the law that prohibited credit card companies from prohibiting discounts for alternate payments.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/111/hr627/text
 
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smellslikemichigan

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Not anymore since the law changed.
I think it's the same law that got us carry in national parks but I could be wrong.

http://usa.visa.com/personal/using_visa/checkout_fees/index.html




ETA: Got a lot of free time?

You can verify if this is the law that prohibited credit card companies from prohibiting discounts for alternate payments.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/111/hr627/text

that's pretty silly. cash discounts are a defacto checkout fee. it can add up rather quickly when the price is 10 cents a gallon different
 

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I,, understand that the Card is meant to be a "bearer instrument", but...
Many merchants will accept a card, from an obviouse thug/theif,
that is buying cartons of smokes, cans of DEW and sticks of jerkey,
with a card he probably just stole from a church lady, named ginger molsby!

I have two cards, they have 10,000 and 20,000$ limits,
I only use them for major purchaces, last time, was this very computor, about 3 years ago.

When the clerk asks me for pic ID.... I show it... then I thank them for being carefull..
When they check the extra ID, they are protecting my credit from fraud,,, I like that.

This is one of my peeves with the credit/loan industry.

They cannot protect my credit from fraud. Someone cannot steal my identity. Identity theft is a made-up term for fraud. I am not the victim of that fraud. The lenders and card issuers are.

This has gotten so out of hand that my bank now offers "identity theft protection" (at an additional cost, thank you).

The bottom line is that credit fraud, like receiving stolen checks, is the industry's business liability. Not my liability.

So, no ID, thank you.
 

sharkey

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that's pretty silly. cash discounts are a defacto checkout fee. it can add up rather quickly when the price is 10 cents a gallon different

Visa sees it different.

They consider a defacto checkout fee on that actually shows as a separate charge for use of a credit card, not a different price for the item.

Semantics, I know.
 
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