Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by gamblor956 2378 days ago
This is both true and false. In 2013, MC and Visa agreed in a settlement that they could not prohibit merchants from imposing a surcharge on credit card customers.

However, 10 states prohibit such surcharges, including CA, NY, FL, MA, and TX...i.e., the states with most CC transactions.

1 comments

This feels like 100% against the free market spirit.