Quote from: jseverson on December 06, 2017, 07:59:27 AM

Quote from: Youghoor on December 05, 2017, 10:57:15 PM

False, credit cards are usually taking 0% fees of whatever you buy, the only "fee" that you have to pay is the Anual Maintenance, and yes, that is extremely expensive.

What? Credit card companies take fees out of every transaction. You're the buyer so you probably don't know this, but the seller doesn't get the full amount of money charged to you. They may charge you $100, but only $98 or $97 gets credited to their account. To avoid losses this way, sellers may simply increase the price to $105, and may just opt to give a discount for cash purchases. OP is saying you're already paying the "hidden" fee that sellers charge to offset the credit card charge plus the Bitcoin transaction fee. You're paying more for using Bitcoin rather than credit card in this specific scenario.

Either way, Bitcoin fees are too high right now, proven by the fact that microtransactions are nearly unviable. Segwit and the Lightning Network claims to be capable of solving this problem, so we'll see. I wouldn't be opposed to paying extra if it were only a few cents anyway.

THANK YOU!

I feel like you're the only person so far that actually read my post haha.

And yea fees are too expensive right now anyways for any cheap purchases, though for large purchases Bitcoin works great right now because even $5 fees are a lot cheaper than credit card fees on buys of a few hundreds dollars or more. But yeah I'm basically just thinking about when LN or something comes online that makes purchases of all sizes feasible. If fees are just a few cents people might not care too much, but still it would make more sense for merchants to treat them the same as credit card fees and minus the fee from the price.