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Sep 3, 2018 | 4:50 pm

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Originally Posted by docbert

Unless I'm mistaken, Hertz will only authorize the actual rental amount for a Visa, not rental amount + $200 like they did here. So based on that, you can presume that it's NOT a Visa.

(And indeed it's not - it's a Mastercard)

Good eye--I did miss that. But:

Quote:

Originally Posted by jackal

Edit: it does seem that MC now supports reversals: MasterCard Best Practices for Managing Authorization Reversals, https://www.mastercard.us/content/da...sing-rules.pdf. And here's the similar Visa guide, which talks about incremental authorizations and reversals as they apply to the car rental industry: https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/downlo...l-industry.pdf. It also includes this interesting and helpful-to-consumers line: "Car rental agencies may not use a Visa product to process delayed or amended charges related to car loss, and/or theft, damages, unless the car rental company reserves express agreement to the specific charges from the cardholder."

(And, by extension, also incremental authorizations)

Last edited by jackal; Sep 3, 2018 at 4:57 pm

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