Bruce Mohl follows up on yesterday's Boston Globe article about the city's new parking meters, Meters may break credit cards' rules:
Boston's new high-tech parking meters may be running afoul of Visa and MasterCard rules that prohibit vendors from imposing minimum purchase requirements on their customers.Earlier on Off On A Tangent, Parking Meters: Piggybacking and Minimum Charges.
Heard on WBUR tonight that they're disabling debit & credit cards altogether on the new meters until they figure out what to do about these rules.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations!
I heard that too on my ride home. That adds insult to injury.
ReplyDeleteCredit and Debit card users should be allowed to charge however much they want.
Seems like a simple solution to me.