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	<p></p><p>Ever go to a store and realize you do not have enough cash in hand for even that small purchase.  Then to make it more embarrassing the clerk says you have to have a $15.00 minimum purchase to use your credit or debit card?  Is this legal?</p>

	<p></p><p>OK, let&#8217;s assume a lot of the smaller merchants don&#226;&#8364;&#8482;t know the rules for accepting cards from Visa and MasterCard, rather than they don&#226;&#8364;&#8482;t follow them.  </p>

<div class="post-teaser">This is a preview of: <a href="https://www.cashunclaimed.com/unclaimed-property-blog/personal-finance/banking/ip" title="Permanent Link: Are merchant&#8217;s following the credit card rules?" rel="bookmark">Are merchant&#8217;s following the credit card rules?</a>(524 words, estimated 2:06  mins reading time)</div>{"id":265,"date":"2006-08-01T13:42:55","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T18:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cashunclaimed.com\/unclaimed-property-blog\/uncategorized\/ip"},"modified":"2006-08-01T13:43:10","modified_gmt":"2006-08-01T18:43:10","slug":"ip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cashunclaimed.com\/unclaimed-property-blog\/personal-finance\/banking\/ip","title":{"rendered":"Are merchant&#8217;s following the credit card rules?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- ALL ADSENSE ADS DISABLED -->\n\t<p><\/p><p>Ever go to a store and realize you do not have enough cash in hand for even that small purchase.  Then to make it more embarrassing the clerk says you have to have a $15.00 minimum purchase to use your credit or debit card?  Is this legal?<\/p>\n\n\t<p><\/p><p>OK, let&#8217;s assume a lot of the smaller merchants don&#226;&#8364;&#8482;t know the rules for accepting cards from Visa and MasterCard, rather than they don&#226;&#8364;&#8482;t follow them.  <\/p>\n\n<div class=\"post-teaser\">This is a preview of: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cashunclaimed.com\/unclaimed-property-blog\/personal-finance\/banking\/ip\" title=\"Permanent Link: Are merchant&#8217;s following the credit card rules?\" rel=\"bookmark\">Are merchant&#8217;s following the credit card rules?<\/a>(524 words, estimated 2:06  mins reading time)<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cashunclaimed.com\/unclaimed-property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cashunclaimed.com\/unclaimed-property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cashunclaimed.com\/unclaimed-property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashunclaimed.com\/unclaimed-property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashunclaimed.com\/unclaimed-property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashunclaimed.com\/unclaimed-property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cashunclaimed.com\/unclaimed-property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashunclaimed.com\/unclaimed-property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashunclaimed.com\/unclaimed-property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}