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>> Visa requires that merchants ship a product prior to charging any Visa debit card

This is very new to me. This source here: http://usa.visa.com/download/merchants/card-acceptance-guide...

States:

>> You should not bill the customer until merchandise has been shipped

That is a best practice, not a requirement.



That's an interesting document. One would think that Coin would be used in "Card Present Transactions," however, none of the security features of a real card can be verified using a Coin, since they don't exist. Why would a merchant accept Coin?


This is an excellent point. You could make a series of purchases with your Coin set to your credit card, use an obviously fake signature, then dispute them all. The merchant can't claim that they checked the signature because they obviously don't match, so any merchant that lets you use your card has little recourse in the case of chargebacks.


Look on page 13:

>> Transactions cannot be deposited until goods or services have been shipped.


Very good find. Thank you.




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