This is an interesting development. I didn't know about that Supreme Court decision. So it effectively allows merchants to communicate a credit card surcharge as exactly that to customers, letting them know that it is caused by using a particular card?
Does that also allow merchants to put an additional surcharge depending on the card used onto a receipt? Or has that been deemed legal in an earlier ruling? Because I always thought the big card networks had some kind of legally binding contract with merchants which prohibits the addition of surcharges that only apply to their particular payment method - contract clauses that they could only muscle through because merchants effectively didn't have the possibility to just not accept Visa or MasterCard payments, while most of their competitors accepted them.
Does that also allow merchants to put an additional surcharge depending on the card used onto a receipt? Or has that been deemed legal in an earlier ruling? Because I always thought the big card networks had some kind of legally binding contract with merchants which prohibits the addition of surcharges that only apply to their particular payment method - contract clauses that they could only muscle through because merchants effectively didn't have the possibility to just not accept Visa or MasterCard payments, while most of their competitors accepted them.