Amazon sg charging 0.5% surcharge for visa transactions from sep15 2021

[StreetFight3r]

amazon users take note

there wil be 0.5% surcharge for visa transactions unless you use debit card or just use non visa cardss

to begin with amazon items also not cheap??

just use lazada or shopee

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E-commerce giant Amazon has announced that it will impose a 0.5 per cent surcharge on Visa credit card transactions on its Singapore website, Amazon.sg, from Sept 15.

An Amazon spokesman told The Straits Times that Singapore is the first country where this surcharge will be imposed, but added that the high cost of accepting card payments is a global problem.

The surcharge will apply to most purchases made on Amazon.sg, such as apparel and consumer electronics sold by third parties, or Amazon itself, from Singapore or overseas.

However, groceries from Amazon Fresh, digital goods and services such as in-app purchases on Amazon service Twitch, as well as subscription schemes such as Amazon Prime will not be affected by the surcharge.

Purchases from other Amazon websites remain unaffected for now, even when they are shipped to Singapore.

When asked why the surcharge was being imposed only in Singapore, Amazon declined to comment.

However, the company said its goal was not to collect revenue from the surcharge, but to encourage consumers to use better, lower-cost payment methods, while preserving their choice and deferring the additional cost of high-cost payment methods.

An e-mail sent to users of Amazon.sg on Tuesday (Aug 10) attributed the surcharge to Visa’s high cost of payments.

“To avoid this surcharge, we encourage you to use a debit or non-Visa credit card as the default payment method in your account,” it added.

The Amazon spokesman also told ST that the cost of accepting card payments continues to be an obstacle to providing the best prices for customers.

full story here https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/consumer/amazon-to-introduce-05-surcharge-for-visa-credit-card-transactions-in-singapore

[Mustank]

4 minutes ago, StreetFight3r said:

amazon users take note

there wil be 0.5% surcharge for visa transactions unless you use debit card or just use non visa cardss

to begin with amazon items also not cheap??

just use lazada or shopee

full story here https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/consumer/amazon-to-introduce-05-surcharge-for-visa-credit-card-transactions-in-singapore

Heng utrip is MasterCard 

heng for now

wait a minute

i never buy from the Singapore site one only buy from USA site

Edited August 11, 2021 by Mustank

[StreetFight3r]

Just now, Mustank said:

Heng utrip is MasterCard 

heng for now

wahseh u still using utrip

since cannot go overseas my utrip rotting

only use it when overseas 

[Mustank]

Just now, StreetFight3r said:

wahseh u still using utrip

since cannot go overseas my utrip rotting

only use it when overseas 

Utrip very good For protection

now many cheat people money one 

so if you buy simi simi thing online, before pay that $10 for 10kg of chilli crap, top up $10 lor

if cheater try to kope $20000, he will realise inside nothing

[Kb27]

10 minutes ago, Mustank said:

Heng utrip is MasterCard 

heng for now

wait a minute

i never buy from the Singapore site one only buy from USA site

Do you mean youtrip ? Looks interesting.

[inlinesix]

13 minutes ago, Mustank said:

Utrip very good For protection

now many cheat people money one 

so if you buy simi simi thing online, before pay that $10 for 10kg of chilli crap, top up $10 lor

if cheater try to kope $20000, he will realise inside nothing

I use it in the same way.  But from August onwards,  Visa got $1 top up charge.

[kobayashiGT]

26 minutes ago, StreetFight3r said:

amazon users take note

there wil be 0.5% surcharge for visa transactions unless you use debit card or just use non visa cardss

to begin with amazon items also not cheap??

just use lazada or shopee

full story here https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/consumer/amazon-to-introduce-05-surcharge-for-visa-credit-card-transactions-in-singapore

There is always mastercard. 🤣

[kobayashiGT]

20 minutes ago, Mustank said:

Utrip very good For protection

now many cheat people money one 

so if you buy simi simi thing online, before pay that $10 for 10kg of chilli crap, top up $10 lor

if cheater try to kope $20000, he will realise inside nothing

I am using the grab credit card. Cause can earn point at the same time. hahaha.

[Jman888]

41 minutes ago, Mustank said:

Utrip very good For protection

now many cheat people money one 

so if you buy simi simi thing online, before pay that $10 for 10kg of chilli crap, top up $10 lor

if cheater try to kope $20000, he will realise inside nothing

yes to doubly protect I use PayPal that link to my youtrip card, only top up enough for the deduction 

have been buying things dealing in HKD and USD, the exchange rate always much better

[Soya]

59 minutes ago, kobayashiGT said:

There is always mastercard. 🤣

Why Visa so liddat one?

No biggie. Find MC more useful nowadays anyway

 

[Stratovarius]

1 hour ago, inlinesix said:

I use it in the same way.  But from August onwards,  Visa got $1 top up charge.

Oh. U mean if use visa to top up youtrip card will incur a dollar charge?

[Stratovarius]

1 hour ago, Mustank said:

Utrip very good For protection

now many cheat people money one 

so if you buy simi simi thing online, before pay that $10 for 10kg of chilli crap, top up $10 lor

if cheater try to kope $20000, he will realise inside nothing

got one time my youtrip kenna hack. Got around 10 transactions all decline coz my card left 2SGD. 

[inlinesix]

7 minutes ago, Stratovarius said:

Oh. U mean if use visa to top up youtrip card will incur a dollar charge?

Yes. Visa will charge $1 fee to my card.

[ToyotaShuttle]

1 hour ago, Mustank said:

Utrip very good For protection

now many cheat people money one 

so if you buy simi simi thing online, before pay that $10 for 10kg of chilli crap, top up $10 lor

if cheater try to kope $20000, he will realise inside nothing

try revolut instead. bigger coy and you can create disposable credit cards.

good for signing up with those "trials"

[Victor68]

Between visa and Amazon, they better sort out. We are letting them make money, still want to charge us for giving them biz?

[Jman888]

not the first time visa impose charge right? they did the same with Grab.

[ToyotaShuttle]

9 minutes ago, Victor68 said:

Between visa and Amazon, they better sort out. We are letting them make money, still want to charge us for giving them biz?

just use mastercard. It is a visa problem not an amazon one. 

You mean you would rather amazon guai guai pay visa then mark up their products more? I support amazon here.

[1fast1]

Thanks, noted. Almost never use Amazon, my experience is not great anyway. Last Amazon purchase was my Nespresso machine, and before that, my OBD2 scanner. I will just double down on Shopee, Lazada, Qoo10 and when I'm feeling frisky and dangerous, Geek. 😁