Brought to you by my discovery that some people think that “the customer is always right” isn’t the slogan of a long-dead department store, but rather it’s an actual call the cops law.

  • Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Dude would probably be better iff it it made his debit a credit card.

    Debit cards can be run as credit, but they don’t have anywhere near the protections of a credit card.

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      1 year ago

      Debit cards can be run as credit

      Does it cost the merchant more?

      In Australia, debit cards are dual-network, and credit transactions cost far more than debit transactions. Debit uses a local system called EFTPOS that has low fees, whereas credit uses the card issuer’s network (Mastercard, Visa, etc) and they take a far larger percentage.

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        1 year ago

        I have no idea, Do debit cards have better protections in australia?

        Cause in America, if you run a debit card, you get no protections (edit, banks will generally give you your money back if the card is stolen, after an investigation, nothing else really). I literally have been told by a bank that “If you wanted to make charge backs and have protections, you should have used your credit card”