[wereHamster]

Do you really believe that the CC rewards are free?!? You, the customer, ultimately pay for them. Purchase by CC costs the merchants money (how much is it nowadays, around 2-3%?), the merchants pass that price increase on to customers (regardless whether they pay by cash or credit card nonetheless).

[sp4rki]

By that logic then it makes even more sense to use the credit card over both cash and <whatever>coin. If the transaction price is getting bundled into the overall price of the article I'm buying, why would I pay in cash and lose credit cart protections and loyalty points? Or even worse, why would I pay in bitcoin and lose the same as above and incur a transaction fee myself?

[gruez]

Assuming the merchant doesn't charge extra for using a credit card

[soared]

Which they don't and also it's illegal. You can charge less for cash, but no one does that. (Except your one or two examples out of the thousands of stores)

[skookum]

It's not illegal, but it is against Visa and Mastercard's rules, to levy a fee or surcharge to use a credit card. What IS illegal is to prohibit merchants from offering a discount to induce customers to pay by cash or check, which is why merchants that do so don't end up having their Visa and Mastercard contracts cancelled.

[gruez]

>Which they don't and also it's illegal

source? because there are tons of gas stations that offer a "cash price" and a "debit/credit card" price.