Re: Cypherpunks defeat? (fwd)

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> From: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
> 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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Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
> > 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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