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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Do Brick and mortar merchants charge a premium to accept bitcoin?
by
Kazimir
on 05/08/2014, 14:29:50 UTC

Does the coffee shop/ restaurant/ bakery/ gift shop etc charge a premium to accept bitcoin when you walk in and buy from them using bitcoin compared to the local fiat price?

If so.. how much in your experience/area?
No, on the contrary. Sometimes they give a small discount. Makes sense, because unlike any other payment method they have ZERO costs and ZERO chargeback/fraud/counterfeit risk with Bitcoin.

And usually, they pass the ridicilous fees from paypal/bank card/credit card payments on to the customer, whereas they don't charge any for Bitcoin payments. So there's some discount as well.