(Offtopic) credit card charges
(Offtopic) credit card charges
Posted Jul 30, 2009 12:37 UTC (Thu) by nye (subscriber, #51576)In reply to: (Offtopic) credit card charges by dwmw2
Parent article: Linux Foundation launches affinity credit card
I don't own a credit card, so they might be different, but debit card charges are usually hidden by large retailers, but added to the bill by smaller retailers. Eg. using a debit card at my local pub incurs a charge of 75 pence (actually they may well not accept credit cards at all).
I suppose larger retailers can get better rates, and see greater value in charging everyone the same, whereas a smaller retailer would have to increase their prices by a large enough fraction to risk losing cash customers if they charged everyone the same.