Square Card Processing Gave me the Boot

[Flopsweat]

Kind of hard to imagine a bank having ethical standards. Assuming that's what they're trying to imply. It sure smells like virtue signaling.

 

[Doc In UPlace]

Is that before whipping out their Obama card to pay for them?

Actually EBT started in 1993 with the Conference Report on Public Law 103-66, the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993; and was completed under George Bush in 2003, not that facts matter much anymore.

 

[Doc In UPlace]

Yea, EBT card! And they usually have two cartloads of crap I can't afford and 4 or 5 screaming inconsistent mixed race kids

All this and racism too. nice. WTF's happened to this place?

 

[Diamondback]

Kind of hard to imagine a bank having ethical standards. Assuming that's what they're trying to imply. It sure smells like virtue signaling.

Rather like vermin Ambulance Chasers in that regard...

 

[Flopsweat]

All this and racism too. nice. WTF's happened to this place?

I witnessed the "two cartloads of food that I can't afford" first hand in the early '80's. It was real and did not set well with me. The race thing I agree we could do without. It's still going on today because the system was set up to make you want to stay unemployed. A bad place to be no matter who likes you or doesn't.

 

[Who The F R U]

Etrain16
"Which makes me ask the question, again....why aren't any of these payment/banking companies run/owned by conservatives?"

You already know the answer you just don't want to say it to yourself.

 

[etrain16]

Etrain16
"Which makes me ask the question, again....why aren't any of these payment/banking companies run/owned by conservatives?"

You already know the answer you just don't want to say it to yourself.

In this case, I'm going to say I actually don't. There is obviously a lot of money to be made here, so is it that there are no conservative big money people? No conservatives that are interested in these business models? Or are conservatives actually involved and simply give in to the leftist America-hating nutbags? Honestly, if I were a billionaire investor, I'd make sure there were some choices out there for pro-gun and conservative businesses to work in the marketplace. There is obviously a need for such things.

 

[Mister Bisley]

Me too @etrain16

I will no longer be purchasing items using Square. I gave Square the boot!

 

[edzz]

From a marketing / technology perspective I was fairly impressed when Square was launched. However, I agree that their political stance for lack of a better word sucks.

I would think there would be room for a company to copy their business model with only slight modification. Recreate their card reader in a distinctive round shape and market it to a slightly more conservative market. Just imagine the business potential, as long as they were linked to the same account an owner could keep their device ready to use at the checkout counter and keep a few spare rounds available for emergency's.

 

[FireArm]

yelp never again will I let anyone run my cards with one of those !

 

[Argonaut]

Have you seen that Kroger is discontinuing taking Visa? fees have just become too much. I have long maintained the banking industry and lazy consumers have increased the cost of most things we buy. 2% or more of most purchases world wide is a tremendous amount of money for a little computer generated management. Silly people have no idea how practice has increased the cost of everything we do. If a company is charged 2% they have to pass on 4% just to keep there head above water. That becomes real money very quickly. Probably a larger skim than the old mobsters took out of Vegas.