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Visa calls for ban on surcharges (www.rnz.co.nz)
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Credit card company Visa is calling for a ban on the surcharge fee some merchants charge card-paying consumers at the point of sale.

The Commerce Commission was undertaking a review of card charges, and considering cutting the regulated interchange fee card companies can charge banks by as much as 75 percent, for example.

Card interchange fees were in turn passed on by banks to merchants at whatever rate the merchant can negotiate, meaning that some pay much more than others.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Hey I have an idea. Why don't we invite some competition to the marketplace. Maybe Alipay or Wechat. Even better why don't we start using premined crypto coins. Even better why doesn't the government mint it's own premined crypto and set up some servers to handle the transactions.

The mere threat of any of the above should get Visa to back off.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Fuck off with the crypto.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

It's just technology. It's just a kind of a database. There is no reason the government can't create it's own currency and run it's own transaction servers. It's all open source so it could literally be done in a week if we really want to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Its a very poor, and overtime increasingly inefficient database.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not for premined crypto coins. For them you don't need proof of work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

But each transaction is still significantly more expensive in processor (and thus electricity) and slower than a normal database is right? Don't get me wrong alternatives to VISA & MasterCard are more than welcome, I just don't think crypto is it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They could do it but there be no benefit and huge costs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Cost would be minimal and the benefit would be very low transaction costs for vendors and customers and not needing Visa to conduct every day financial transactions.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Yeah. Bro had me until the crypto shill.