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John H.[_5_]

On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 12:56:59 -0500, wrote:

On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 09:01:12 -0500, John H.
wrote:

On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 01:36:45 -0500, wrote:

On Fri, 23 Feb 2018 17:03:00 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

One of my points is that the sales data sent doesn't have to identify the merchandise, and even if it does it can be obscured. When Rural King starts losing sales because credit card X won't approve transactions, you can bet they'll fix that in a flash. You'll be buying $479 worth of Purina.

This action is being considered by the banks that issue the credit
cards. There's no reason for them to "fix" it if they decide not to
honor firearms sales.

The merchants and customers are going to be the ones who fix it.
Credit card companies court them, not the other way around. If Rural
King says I will only honor cards that accept gun sales, they won't
have any problem finding bankers who will go along. I am sure there
are banks who would love to get NRAs business.
I am just not sure how this would really work. If Chase says they will
not honor a gun purchase but BoA will, how does the merchant know?

The computer won't let the charge go through from that vendor.

What will Visa/ MC say about it? Who gets stuck when the charge is
denied and the customer has already left the store?

The charge is denied when the card is run through the machine.

Like others have said, the merchant will just stop sending merchandise
details with the charge, assuming they do now.

It's not the details of the charge, it's the vendor itself.

I know when we had the store, everything was just "merchandise". Visa
and MC only got what we entered into the machine and that was what
came from the card swipe or manual entry and the amount. That is also
all I ever see on my CC receipt, along with the system generated
transaction number.
If I am making a claim against the credit card company, I need to
attach the actual sales receipt with that transaction number on it.

You need to go read the article posted by Luddite.

So you are saying Visa will stop taking charges from Walmart, not
bloody likely.
If they do, expect Visa/MC to get some new competition.

Makes no difference, WalMart stopped selling 'assault' rifles a while back.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/b...us-stores.html