It's my debit card; it's issued through my checking account bank and is what I use to withdraw cash from my account at ATMs. But if I elect to use it as a "credit" card at the POS I don't use my PIN and I sign instead. And with the new regulations on overdrafts, it doesn't extend "credit" unless the consumer has specifically arranged with the bank for that to be permitted. So mine would disallow a purchase if the account didn't contain sufficient funds.
Oh. I'm not sure how using it at a PoS is "using it as a credit card", apart perhaps from the signing part (which in here is impossible with debit cards). I was thinking you meant using a credit card as a debit card, i.e. using it to pay for things electronically without ever using the "credit" part of it.
Fed Proposes 12-Cent Max Fee On Merchant Debit Fees
- 17/12/2010 06:00:35 PM
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I'm a little iffy on this
- 17/12/2010 09:08:56 PM
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It may hurt consumers, it will hurt the banks
- 18/12/2010 06:03:40 AM
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I'd like to use credit cards more without feeling guilty that it's costing the business money. *NM*
- 20/12/2010 03:26:04 PM
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I'm so glad Visa and Mastercard are so worried about consumers, especially given THEIR tight budgets
- 17/12/2010 09:14:53 PM
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You do know Barney Frank (Democrat and major liberal and progressive) is against the change
- 18/12/2010 06:18:37 AM
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- 18/12/2010 06:18:37 AM
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I didn't; guess that just means he's wrong. I fail to see how opposing this is progressive at all.
- 18/12/2010 12:49:36 PM
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It has nothing to do with being progressive, it has everything to do with his banker constituents. *NM*
- 20/12/2010 01:30:04 PM
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I figured, but, as you say, nothing progressive in that.
- 20/12/2010 02:44:47 PM
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I am just pointing out that Evil is not unique to a single political party
- 20/12/2010 06:56:29 PM
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It wouldn't be nearly as effective it it were; it's quite systemic, for a reason.
- 20/12/2010 07:46:29 PM
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Sounds good to me, but it does seem like a natural monopoly, so that competition idea... eh.
- 17/12/2010 09:37:20 PM
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Curious.
- 20/12/2010 07:02:05 PM
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True, that does amount to largely the same thing.
- 20/12/2010 07:12:27 PM
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I am not sure what the proper amount should be but there does need to be limits
- 20/12/2010 11:10:18 PM
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