They dabble in illegal business. Stay away or accept being scammed
The sign on the cash register says "$5 minimum required".
People this practice is illegal! You can not be required to pay a minimum fee to use your card, make you pay the service fees or be required you make a minimum spending amount on your purchase.
Please do us all a favor and report them.
If they tell you they don't understand or it's store policy, say ok. Make the payment, go home and contact visa, Mastercard etc. Go to policy and terms. Report them and get your money back.
It might only be $5 BUT they can refund the full amount and hold them responsible for all service fees you spent with them and refund every dime. They can even be required to settle you for the full amount or you can ask for the state maximum interest for fraud and intent to fraud and you can take it to your attorney and get your real justice of 5k. Its work but your worth it. When they choose to scam, we say we choose to report that and at times can take things too far.
So let me tell you what happened.
I went in this store to grab gum and a bag of chips and I wanted to try a wine cooler because the last time was my last time.
Anyway,
We slide our card in and she says thats not enough, we can, you need to spend $5.
I told her no. She looks at my sister like you got cash!? I told her it's illegal to require a minimum payment for a POS system. She got mad and said oh well it's policy.
I spent the $5 because I had to add a wine cooler SMH. I went home to confirm i can report her for intent to fraud and fraud and isa,master card and all bank cards say the same thing. Report them so I am.
We do not have to accept being scammed regardless of how we pay.
Stay safe out here spenders. Yes it's extra work but I need my coins to go to what I paid for and not be told you need to spend $5 if you use card on a POS.
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