|
|
|
|
|
by Slartie
2326 days ago
|
|
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. |
|