I absolutely agree that card companies charge fees which are bad for the consumers, however the actual fee is a lot lower than that, in my country it's 0,8-0,9%.
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I pay 50 cents a month for my account and debit card. the only additional fees are when changing currency, which happens when you change cash into different currency too. so what's the problem?
Why shouldn't I just pay with card and avoid all of this? Even food stands on the street accept cards nowadays.
Just block the ads
carriers who must sell the same phone as an electronics retailer cannot stop you from unlocking the bootloader.
first world countries have carrier locking illegal, and carriers sell the same configuration phones as regular shops.
yeah, but all of those 400-500 kkm cars get bought up by Kazakhstan and similar country importers.
well maybe in 3rd world like USA they do
Well maybe in your 3-rd world they do.
you drive your cars for 300000 miles?
Your Lemmy instance is running under Estonian domain and yet you still imagine the world as just USA
nothing worthwhile, as it's not allowed (for a good reason)