• Dimand@aussie.zone
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    1 day ago

    I mean the RBA cut the credit card cap here from 0.8% to 0.3%. EFTPOS is down to 0.16% I’m pretty sure this places us near the lowest card fees in the world now.

    Last I checked, the cost of cash handling here was over 1% of a transaction.

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      1 day ago

      Does that apply to the payment provider (the services that provide the terminals, etc?)

      Or are we just relying on the “free market”, which failed until this intervention, to re-price their services now that card fees are lower?

      Genuinely curious as I couldn’t find the info

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        14 hours ago

        My reading of it is that it does. How it is enforced I don’t know. I assume the business would need to report someone for over charging them in transaction fees given that we don’t see what the fee is.