“No one who works here at CapitalOne would ever tip this much so we just wanted to double-check you were of sound mind when you did this! :)”
“No one who works here at CapitalOne would ever tip this much so we just wanted to double-check you were of sound mind when you did this! :)”
And the bank sends you this “warning” because they’re just nice people and love you so, so much. Gee, I feel so warm and fuzzy inside.
Or they send you this because they don’t want you to send complain of fraudulent transactions and have to eat the cost later on… happy now?
I’m more inclined to think that it’s a dark pattern to shame you into keeping the money inthei…ermyour account. You know, where they can use it.Because I don’t think there would be much room to complain, after the fact, about a price you already agreed to pay, and paid. But yeah, thanks for your answer. 🙂Edit: that was wrong, apparently US banks get more from a customer’s funds when the customer spends more, than they do when said customer has money saved up.
Tell me you don’t know how tips work without telling me.
I had a small coffee shop put a 100% tip on my card. Went back the next day and they wouldn’t fix it, so I called the credit company and had it charged back.
Something like this would be very helpful to someone who doesn’t check their statements weekly like I do.
Tell me you don’t know how tips are in the US without telling me. FTFY.
Yeah so I’m from good ol’ Europe, where we tip as a feedback for a stellar service, not as an attempt try and help service workers get food and shelter to survive another week. So yeah, no, I don’t know how “tips work”, because apparently that also implies giving your credit card to another person, letting them go out of your sight with it, and charge you whatever the hell they want. I would also never give my credit card to anyone else. Either you got a means of payment where my CC doesn’t leave my hand, or you will get cash. I’m not handing out my entire bank account to a rando.
Edit: s/it/my CC/ # for clarity
I’m not going to shame you for being a eurobrain, but why would you start talking authoritatively on the deranged state of North American tipping culture when you dont seem to understand how it works?
It’s surprisingly common for cashiers to re-enter your tip amount for you when they reset the machine if there was an issue with your transaction, or maybe they fudged the automatic gratuity on a large party, or maybe the person needed assistance with the machine and the cashier decided that was their chance… Unfortunately when people’s incomes rely on tips, and a tip is expected on every meal, it’s only a matter of time before someone takes advantage, and unfortunately some people just… Aren’t super observant.
As terrible as Capital One is (extremely bad), this isn’t a dark pattern to keep you from spending money, they get more out of you if you spend more on your Credit card because of the interest on repayments.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/addressing-the-u-s-homelessness-crisis/
https://fortune.com/europe/2022/07/12/how-to-end-homelessness-finland-solution-housing-first/
If I were you, I’d be a tad more cautious with the use of that word, “works”. Seems a lil bit overblown for what you are talking about.
If you don’t check the amount before entering the pin, it’s a you problem. If you give away your CC and assume the person has integrity, it’s a you problem. If the person is threatening you, it is a robbery. But then, you are legally allowed to literally kill them, right?
I’ll refer you to the bit above about the word “works”. Not gonna repeat myself. Running a business isn’t simple, but fortunately, not everything is complicated: if you can’t afford having employees, then don’t. If you can’t afford running your business without employees, then don’t. There’s a reason it is called a “business plan” and not a “business guess”.
I have found literally one good bank so far. One. Among the 5 countries I lived in.
Fair, I’ll admit: this makes sense. I know (not from first hand experience, but there are enough accounts online to make this common knowledge) that the credits in the US are extremely predatory. Worse than that, the entire system is designed to make you fail. So yeah, OK, you are right, point taken, I’ll correct what I wrote on the prior comment.
If I were you I’d focus on the word “it” in the sentence you are referring to.
Here “it” means “tipping culture”, not “The US in its entirety” so I don’t know what the fuck your links have to do with the conversation.
You’ll get a lot farther with people being kinder in their corrections of your incorrect presumptions if you vibe check yourself and cool it with the providing the enlightened eurobrain takes.
I know the north american tipping system is a top-down broken trash fire. You’ll find that I never actually endorsed the system, just commented on the reality of it. It’s possible for someone to acknowledge how something works (“how it works” =/= an endorsement of functionality) while understanding that the system itself is negatively impactful to those inside it
I’m not an American, so someone else is free to correct me, but most of the US is still being introduced to chip cards. I believe there’s still places where it’s not exactly uncommon for the server to swipe for you.
Holy bad faith Batman
Yes… I agree. I never actually endorsed the north american system though?
A cursory glance at your profile tells me that we’re probably roughly equally far left, so why are you trying to start a war here when I was merely trying to correct your functional understanding of a system.
Credit card isn’t a bank account, it’s a line of credit. you can freeze credit and charge it back for fraudulent purchases.
I guess you never buy anything off the internet then either.
And if you do buy off the internet, you should use credit, as it’s much safer to freeze a credit card than your entire bank account if your card gets leaked.
Also don’t get why you’re being so hostile to a comment that’s simply explaining how a different works. Must be a European thing.
Tell me you have never lived outside of North America without telling me you have never lived outside of North America.
I do have a credit card, but I do not have a “line of credit”. In fact, I didn’t fucking know what it was until today. I didn’t even know it existed.
See, the way it works for me, is: I have money, and the credit card lets me buy something without charging it immediately to my checking account. My balance still displays the sum of the positive amount of my checking account and the negative amount of my credit card. So, for example, let’s say I have 10k on my checking account, and use 2k off of my credit card, my balance will be 8k. It lets me go “in the virtual red” for 2k I think, and only until the day of the month where the money is transferred from my checking account to my credit card account. This allows for a certain flexibility with paying dues on time, even when you haven’t been paid yet. Even if I had 0 on my checking account, I could use my CC for paying various stuff, and THEN get paid for a job, without any fees of any kind. That’s the point. There’s no “score” or “line” or whatever scam designed to make people fail and then charge them insane fees and interests so they can’t get back on their feet, and end up being bled for the rest of their days.
Wire transfers are instant. And if not that, then there are cryptocurrencies. Slightly slower, but still very usable.
And no, I do not buy stuff online very often. I pay mostly on invoice.
Yeah so, I don’t wanna use a CC online. Other means of payment are just so much better.
Because the concept of “tips” in the US isn’t a thing that “works”. And just like with “union busting”, we’re not too found of toxic “customs” being sold as “normal”, and eventually ending up creeping over. Some of the stuff is better in the US, some of the stuff is better in Europe. But for the stuff that is undeniably better in Europe, please don’t try and fuck it up?
You talk very authoritatively about a subject that you just admitted you don’t know how it works.
I don’t know how doing heroin works, but I still know it’s terrible idea.
“tips are like doing heroin”
Well you seem like a reasonable person…
It’s just a good business practice from them. You are not that clever friend. Your sarcasm and cynicism aren’t real arguments, and your extremism doesn’t help anyone.
I reckon, I am not “that clever friend” that you clearly miss dearly. Don’t worry, you will eventually find them.
You said nothing there.
Ill make it extra clear then. I said that your grammar sucks. Sorry you weren’t able to parse that.
Only an ignorant confuses a missing comma for illiteracy. You’re missing an apostrophe btw, and it’s “sorry that you weren’t”. Again, you said nothing there. Sorry that you’re not understanding, but i said it because you didn’t say anything relevant to the point, just like right now. But yeah, you’re not that clever friend either way. You certainly are trying though.
Probably don’t want their customers to be defrauded
By anyone else*