US local phone numbers, English:
Master card
800-627-8372,1,1
Visa
800-847-2911,1,4
Script:
I’m calling to urge you to immediately end your new policy that unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers even more vulnerable. I’m also asking you to sit down with stakeholders- specifically sex workers and adult content creators- to develop solutions that ensure equitable access to financial services, create stability, and reduce harm for sex workers.
There aren’t any other options than credit cards in the US to pay without cash? edit: sorry for asking
the card NETWORK is the part at issue; not the type of payment
the same is roughly true for europe and the rest of the world too: payment processors facilitate transactions over various card networks which communicate between banks
a single payment probably involves at least 6 different business facilitating the transaction, and only a couple of them are your bank, and the business you’re paying
There are only 4 credit card networks in the US, regardless of the credit card brand: Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover. Anecdotally Visa and Mastercard are by far the most commonly used and accepted, but I couldn’t tell you why, beyond it often being the default debit card issued by banks.
I can offer a clue.
Discover was Sears’ in-house charge/credit card. It got spun off by itself but a lot of companies never really started accepting Discover.
American Express, their whole thing is exclusivity. It’s the card you use to pay at fancy places. They charge merchants more in service fees, so a lot of places just don’t do business with them.
It’s funny to me that AMEX is supposed to be the fancy card considering that we accepted it at the rural Canadian grocery store I worked at as a teenager. We also accepted Discover.
A really great gag in Futurama is that American Express survived 1000 years, but still no one accepts them for payment.
It was Discover.
Lower fees.
What happened to diners
cardclub?No, even our debit cards use credit card companies for the actual processing
Ditto for PayPal, ApplePay, and Google Pay.
Gold bullion?