$1.31 extra fee to use the magnetic strip on payment cards - page 2.

DublinBrian

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Quote from: BitPay Business Solutions on October 22, 2012, 02:02:01 AM

this seems like an extra tax on Americans traveling abroad?

Ive heard that Visa & Mastercard have 97% market share of the european card payments market, which essentially amounts to US tax of 3% on europeans in europe, on every penny we spend! Undecided

Bitcoin will free us all from this tyranny!

Kris

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Quote from: Mike Hearn on October 22, 2012, 03:02:36 AM

Do you have a link for that? It'd be interesting to know the back story here. I couldn't find any references to such a fee with a few quick searches.

Quote from: Kris on October 22, 2012, 02:04:05 AM

Source translated to english.

http://translate.google.dk/translate?sl=da&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=da&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dr.dk%2FNyheder%2FIndland%2F2012%2F10%2F21%2F234124.htm%3Frss%3Dtrue

Mike Hearn

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Do you have a link for that? It'd be interesting to know the back story here. I couldn't find any references to such a fee with a few quick searches.

Luke-Jr

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Quote from: BitPay Business Solutions on October 22, 2012, 02:02:01 AM

in the US we don't have any smart chips, yet.

Citi does, FWIW.

Kris

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Quote from: BitPay Business Solutions on October 22, 2012, 02:02:01 AM

in the US we don't have any smart chips, yet. everything is magnetic stripe. we are way behind the Europeans in this regard.

But still, forcing the customer to pay because the network technology doesn't work is pretty outrageous!

this seems like an extra tax on Americans traveling abroad?

It would be yes, and it is Robbery In Plain Sight

This won't do... We really need to push Bitcoin POS even more.

Source translated to english.

http://translate.google.dk/translate?sl=da&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=da&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dr.dk%2FNyheder%2FIndland%2F2012%2F10%2F21%2F234124.htm%3Frss%3Dtrue

BitPay Business Solutions

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in the US we don't have any smart chips, yet. everything is magnetic stripe. we are way behind the Europeans in this regard.

But still, forcing the customer to pay because the network technology doesn't work is pretty outrageous!

this seems like an extra tax on Americans traveling abroad?

Kris

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If the chip doesn't work on the payment card, the consumer in the future pays a fee of $1.31 dollars!

The chip doesn't not work. Try the magnetic strip. Most people know the problem with credit card chips, which fails because the store terminal is broken, or because the card is worn and dirty.

But now consumers are punished with a fine of $1.31 dollars, every time they are forced to use the magnetic stripe instead of the smaller and more secure chips on MasterCard, Eurocard and Visa credit card (not Visa / MasterCard)

Damn......

Now even more incentive to use WalletBit, Bitcoin and our upcoming Point of Sale system.

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https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/point-of-sale-walletbit-118419

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