Some use encryption (of the sort used to protect charge card numbers) to thwart the censors.
It is exactly 50 years since Diners Club introduced the world's first charge card.
Last year the company best known for its credit and charge card businesses earned a 3.5 rating.
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Zync, a new version of its classic charge card aimed at young professionals.
If you want discounts and special access to shows, concerts and ball games, perhaps a charge card is right for you.
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While Amex does loan money on its credit cards, its traditional green (and other colors) charge card typically gets paid off every month.
Passengers on the city's 8, 500 vehicles will be able to buy tickets by swiping a credit, debit or charge card by a reader.
The ax fell after a series of embarrassing setbacks in his failed attempt to turn the charge card company into an international financial supermarket.
Kaplan agreed to pay for the service, although MP did not know that Kaplan intended to pay for it with his Lazard charge card.
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Passengers on the city's 8, 500 vehicles will be able to buy tickets by swiping a credit, debit or charge card by an NFC (near field communication) reader.
Its famous charge card first got traction in restaurants, an inherently viral environment where it was easy to observe how the person picking up the tab chose to pay.
Jones has already broken the league's stranglehold on promotional deals by selling "pouring rights" at Texas Stadium to Pepsi and making American Express the "official" Cowboys charge card four years ago.
The Better Business Bureau recommends buying trip insurance with a charge card, which gives you more leverage in case of disputes, and from an independent firm rather than the tour operator or cruise line.
Under such a system, for example, a store owner could give a discount to someone paying with an American Express credit card, charge extra for use of a Visa charge card and leave the price unaltered for a Visa credit card.
Allan Lang, a theater professional who has acted, written and worked in theater administration at Sarah Lawrence (as I learned from LinkedIn, another important social media site) appeared on AskAmex to thank the firm for delivering his charge card records from several years ago.
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And whether your holiday celebrates buying gifts in a store, buying them online, or using an American Express charge card to finance the buy, your share of the holiday loot depends on your ability to sell to consumers what they want at the lowest available delivered price.
Using the Internet, the average Joe can now from his den set up a company in Nevada (whose state website even boasts that it doesn't share information with the IRS) and a bank account in the Caribbean that is conveniently linked to a charge card to tap into his expatriated funds.
Rather than passing those savings onto customers, retailers want to do the opposite: charge credit card users more than cash users.
He yanked 5, 000 Transmedia processing machines out of restaurants and combined Dining's classier front-end product with Transmedia's superior back-office system that credited savings on monthly charge-card accounts.
Once the purchasing tweet is sent out, Amex will ask the user to confirm in a second tweet and then they will charge the card and ship it to the address they have on record.
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That in-between moment, Wallaby has determined, is the ability to use one intelligent card that, once swiped, automatically chooses the best card to charge in each transaction, based on the card holders preferences.
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It now expects an 8.1% credit card charge-off rate, up from 6.7% last quarter.
But none of those moves appears to have generated the intense response of the debit-card charge.
Regulatory changes in how banks can charge account and card fees have put a crimp on that lucrative business as well.
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Factors can change between the time you place an order and the time of credit card charge authorization, which could affect the calculation of sales taxes.
If the money is paid back promptly on the next pay day, this type of lending can be cheaper than paying an unauthorised overdraft or a credit card charge.
Also, unlike Visa and MasterCard, American Express only issues charge and credit card products but not debit cards, which have been gaining widespread acceptance over the past couple of years.
Knowing that a rental agreement is negotiable or that a credit-card charge can be disputed and feeling empowered to negotiate or to dispute is sometimes what a person needs to get to a better financial result.
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As a result, credit-card firms charge about two-thirds more in transaction fees than they do for sales where the card is physically present.
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