Having to purchase a minimum amount at stores might not just be annoying, the merchant could also be in breach of contract with the credit card companies.
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Software Weak Link in ATM Scam Fingered
By 3.20.06
The mystery third party transaction software provider implicated in the ATM debit card scam scandal may have been named by VISA.
Free Laptop from Visa Deal Actually Not So Horrible
By 11.14.05
A post about a free laptop deal from Visa on a ‘Debt Consolidation’ blog is getting a bit of traffic this morning, from both BoingBoing and Digg. The blog author dissects the cost of maintaining the balances required to receive the $850 laptop and comes up with a fee of—over the course of 17 months—$911.95. Sound heinous, right? It is—if you don’t have enough previous credit card debt to transfer to the new card.
