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Got an email from Chase to use Freedom Card for Tap to Pay 3 times for 1,000 points!.

3 contactless purchases from 09/01/2021 through 11/30/2021 using your product during checkout. Each contactless purchase must be a minimum of $3.35

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* You'll earn an additional 1,000 bonus points, which can be redeemed for $10 cash back for 3 contactless purchases from 09/01/2021 through 11/30/2021 using your product during checkout. Each contactless purchase must be a minimum of $3.35. Purchases are when you, or an authorized user, use a card to make purchases of products and services, minus returns or refunds. Please allow 6 to 8 weeks after the qualifying purchase(s) post(s) to your account for bonus points to post to your credit card account. To qualify, your account must be open and not in default at the time of fulfillment. If you change your credit card product during the promotional period you will forfeit this offer. This offer is non-transferable. We may terminate this offer at any time without notice

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I understand the concept you are referring to, it hurts more psychologically to pay with cash than credit for instance, but if you are concerned about the time savings between swiping a card and tapping it, then you are missing the point. By the time you are at the register, you've already made the decision to buy regardless of payment method...
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max1001
09-07-2021 at 08:21 PM.
09-07-2021 at 08:21 PM.
Quote from lazzlazz :
You're entitled to your opinion, but I'm not sure how tapping is any easier than pushing your card in the machine. They're both pretty darn easy.

Lol. You say that but ppl keep inserting the card with the wrong orientation. Especially the elderly. I seen too many ppl struggle with it and get all nasty when someone try to help because it makes them look stupid.
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classicmac
09-07-2021 at 08:30 PM.
09-07-2021 at 08:30 PM.
Quote from max1001 :
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Yea. It's Chase trying to reduce credit card fraud. The chip serves the same purpose but apparently too difficult for ppl to use lol.

I'm not saying it is difficult to use but why does it take so long for it to process using the chip? It used to only take like 2 seconds off the magnetic strip. Now it takes like 5 seconds using the chip. When I tap to pay it is closer to the 2 seconds.

Not only that but there is a learning curve to it. You have to stand there listening to the cashier telling someone "Ok put your card in. Hold on don't take it out yet. Ok you can remove it"
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IslandSlicker
09-07-2021 at 09:08 PM.
09-07-2021 at 09:08 PM.
Is it just me or does it seem like tapping only works 50% of the time?Is it really that much faster? Also, each time it doesn't work ...and I sit there and tap and tap....and tap...and look like an idiot....I want to tap less and less. Ok I'm done.
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tmiw
09-07-2021 at 10:50 PM.
09-07-2021 at 10:50 PM.
Quote from rudolfschmidt :
You do realize that plastic and apps come at a substantial cost to you, right? Think of it this way: once upon a time, if Peter needed to pay Paul, he simply handed him some cash. Now along comes Pat who offers himself as a go-between. Obviously Pat has to make money for performing this service because he has to make a living. So where does this extra money come from? From Peter or Paul or both. In the case of credit cards the extra money comes from merchant fees and those "rewards" we all love so much (which the merchants pay, not the credit card issuers), which get passed back to us, the consumers, in the form of higher prices.
Keep in mind that stores have been allowed to explicitly surcharge for credit card use for like a decade. I don't know about anyone else but if cards were really that much of a hassle for stores, I'd have expected a lot more to be charging extra to run them by now--if not go back to only accepting cash.
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tmiw
09-07-2021 at 10:52 PM.
09-07-2021 at 10:52 PM.
Quote from IslandSlicker :
Is it just me or does it seem like tapping only works 50% of the time?Is it really that much faster? Also, each time it doesn't work ...and I sit there and tap and tap....and tap...and look like an idiot....I want to tap less and less. Ok I'm done.
Visa cards mostly work okay for me when tapping. MC, on the other hand, is a fair bit less reliable. Too bad stores aren't more on the ball when it comes to fixing bugs on their terminals.
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GoodVibrations
09-08-2021 at 04:15 AM.
09-08-2021 at 04:15 AM.
Quote from rudolfschmidt :
You do realize that plastic and apps come at a substantial cost to you, right? Think of it this way: once upon a time, if Peter needed to pay Paul, he simply handed him some cash. Now along comes Pat who offers himself as a go-between. Obviously Pat has to make money for performing this service because he has to make a living. So where does this extra money come from? From Peter or Paul or both. In the case of credit cards the extra money comes from merchant fees and those "rewards" we all love so much (which the merchants pay, not the credit card issuers), which get passed back to us, the consumers, in the form of higher prices.
That's not correct. Credit card rewards are paid by the issuer, not the the merchant. Yes that money comes from merchant fees they collect but it is not directly paid by merchants. Large businesses consider merchant fees a cost of doing business. They come out way ahead by accepting CC even with the fees. Small businesses will sometimes charge a fee to use CC to help cover the merchant fees.
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Gb1908
09-08-2021 at 05:49 AM.
09-08-2021 at 05:49 AM.
The messed up thing is up to 35% of the time the damn tap to pay doesn't work and makes you take 3x as long to check out finally giving up and using chip or swipe..
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tmiw
09-08-2021 at 05:52 AM.
09-08-2021 at 05:52 AM.
Quote from GoodVibrations :
That's not correct. Credit card rewards are paid by the issuer, not the the merchant. Yes that money comes from merchant fees they collect but it is not directly paid by merchants. Large businesses consider merchant fees a cost of doing business. They come out way ahead by accepting CC even with the fees. Small businesses will sometimes charge a fee to use CC to help cover the merchant fees.
Actually, I do think there's a significant amount of animosity between merchants and card networks. While it might not rise up to the point of widespread surcharging or abandoning acceptance altogether, I think it does play out in certain other aspects (such as being indifferent at best to NFC/tap to pay and general crappiness of card terminals). It's unfortunate, really, because it means that the US ends up perpetually being a generation behind the rest of the world on everything card related as a result.
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morph2_7
09-08-2021 at 01:55 PM.
09-08-2021 at 01:55 PM.
Quote from gotk :
Are the gas stations around you offering massive cash discounts? or do you need a better gas cashback card? I haven't seen cash discounts of more than a few cents near where I live, though I visited my parents recently and saw a whopping nickel. I still paid the credit price to get 12-13cents cashback via Costco 4%
At least 10 cents but recently the difference is as high as 18 cents/gallon. I save about $2 with cash (about 14.5 gallon x $0.15). Occasionally AmEx reward offers (Chevron) cashback. That's the only time I use plastic to refuel. I don't have other gas reward CCs.
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rudolfschmidt
09-08-2021 at 05:06 PM.
09-08-2021 at 05:06 PM.
Quote from tmiw :
Keep in mind that stores have been allowed to explicitly surcharge for credit card use for like a decade. I don't know about anyone else but if cards were really that much of a hassle for stores, I'd have expected a lot more to be charging extra to run them by now--if not go back to only accepting cash.
Whether they call it a surcharge or not, they still have to pass on the expense of accepting credit cards to consumers.
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nXt
09-08-2021 at 08:53 PM.
09-08-2021 at 08:53 PM.
Quote from lazzlazz :
You're entitled to your opinion, but I'm not sure how tapping is any easier than pushing your card in the machine. They're both pretty darn easy.

When you insert credit card it takes time for the reader to read the chip and it sits there and you have to wait for it to tell you to take the card out. I've been on cc machines that take 20-30 seconds. When you tap your card or use a phone it's done in less than 1-2 seconds.
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semjase
09-09-2021 at 04:25 AM.
09-09-2021 at 04:25 AM.
Quote from muthukumaran.1234 :
That's true, but its not the one buy that we are trying to make more mindful...perhaps the next buy..i agree with you that this is not the only thing that stands in between someone who is going to buy something impulsively (that he/she might otherwise not need) and the buy...i understand that its a host of things..an ecosystem that enables this...i was thinking one less enabler is one less...and of-course not everyone needs this..lot of folks buy mindfully...for them the other aspect comes in to play...security.
The irony is you're on a site packed full of enablers... We're all here to score a deal. I'd suggest not hanging out in this space if you're trying to curb your consumer behavior (or other's), because on the whole there's no possible way this is a productive space for that.

That said, ironically, I do appreciate your sentiment and should probably take my own advice (unlikely).
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sdeal_77
09-09-2021 at 07:38 AM.
09-09-2021 at 07:38 AM.
Quote from IslandSlicker :
Is it just me or does it seem like tapping only works 50% of the time?Is it really that much faster? Also, each time it doesn't work ...and I sit there and tap and tap....and tap...and look like an idiot....I want to tap less and less. Ok I'm done.
Depending on the machine tap to pay is a hit or miss. At times it just works quickly and sometimes you are left to figure out where to tap? (the tap icon is not where you tap all the time though if you are a user you do think it should work).Swipe has always been successful for me and so does insert (inspite of insert taking time)
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tmiw
09-09-2021 at 09:14 AM.
09-09-2021 at 09:14 AM.
Quote from rudolfschmidt :
Whether they call it a surcharge or not, they still have to pass on the expense of accepting credit cards to consumers.
Not much different than any other business expense, really.
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eltex
09-09-2021 at 10:14 AM.
09-09-2021 at 10:14 AM.
Quote from morph2_7 :
At least 10 cents but recently the difference is as high as 18 cents/gallon. I save about $2 with cash (about 14.5 gallon x $0.15). Occasionally AmEx reward offers (Chevron) cashback. That's the only time I use plastic to refuel. I don't have other gas reward CCs.
Sounds a bit different than here. Some stations do offer a 5-10c discount for cash, but these are usually the more expensive stores here. If you are price shopping, the cheapest stores are almost always not offering the cash discount. The best 5 I can think of here, Costco, Murphy's, H-E-B, Buccees, and QT, none of which offer a cash discount. They are all lower priced than any local stations "discount" price.
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