An open letter to VISA about unscrupulous merchants

Earlier this week, after a particularly heated exchange with a local merchant about minimum purchase prices, I realized that I was spending on average about 30 minutes a week fighting for the right to use my credit card. So I decided to write VISA and plead with them to take action. Below is a copy [...]

FOLLOW-UP: Not all credit card companies facilitate freedom

As we have written before, one of the great things about America is the consumer protections offered to everyone by the credit card companies in the form of chargebacks. Have a problem with an unscrupulous vender or the incompetent Presidential Inaugural Committee? No problem. Just call your credit card company and start a chargeback. The [...]

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