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Re: Cypherpunks defeat? (fwd)
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> From: Eric Murray <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Cypherpunks defeat?
> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 19:56:16 -0700 (PDT)
> using plastic. 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%.
I haven't seen that in 10 years or more. I doubt that anyone will find this
approach very widely.
> Visa and MasterCard don't have massive staffs and huge office
> buildings because they're dumb.
You don't know big corporations very well do you.
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