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rowls66yesterday at 12:55 PM2 repliesview on HN

Card network rules in the US prohibit merchants from adding a surcharge for payment with a debit card. Most merchants are either unaware, or prefer not to care. If you are using a debit card at a business that assesses a card surcharge, point out that your card is a debit card when paying and refuse to pay the surcharge. If that does not help, there are online forms available from both Mastercard and Visa where you can submit a merchant complaint.


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borskitoday at 8:02 AM

That is not true: https://www.lawpay.com/about/blog/credit-card-surcharge-rule...

It used to be true, but this changed many years ago.

StrauXXyesterday at 1:21 PM

The card processors policies are anti-competetive (albeit legal) abuses of their oligopoly. Reporting small vendors to them does not seem right to me.