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Re: Cypherpunks defeat? (fwd)
Eric Murray <[email protected]>
> > But it's ok for the merchant to offer 'discounts' for
> > buyers who use cash instead of credit cards. That
> > 'discount' is the real price of the goods with the
> > credit-card surcharge subtracted. Often that's 3-4%,
> > sometimes as low as 1.2%.
At 10:06 PM 9/28/98 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
> I haven't seen that in 10 years or more. I doubt that
> anyone will find this approach very widely.
I find this invariably happens with buying computers or guns
from cheap sources. If you have never encountered this, you
are paying too much for your computers and your guns.
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