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Old Aug 18, 2012, 8:34 am
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josephstern
 
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Originally Posted by abcx
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Out of curiosity, can one of you guys who have businesses and accept cards list the costs for some common cards (Sapphire, SPG, Amex Gold, etc.)?
It's amazingly not easy to do that. I think the card acceptance industry likes to keep vendors in the dark. They all tell you their rates for basic cards, but there's no way to plug in a six digit prefix and pull back a rate, at least no way I know of.

I can dig through old statements and look up cards and calculate it out to some extent, although that level of detail is hard to get to.

If they made it easy, then merchants, armed with information (scary word to this industry) could be preferential about giving discounts for certain cards. Show up with your Sapphire or Amex Plat, no discount. Bring me a plain-vanilla BofA Visa, fine.
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