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Originally Posted by Hugh
So the fact that both companies couldn’t raise their fees before, but now can (and have) raised their fees, is irrelevant?
If they couldn’t have raised their fees, this dispute (probably) wouldn’t be happening…
From sky news
https://news.sky.com/story/amazon-to...cards-12470641 |
Yet they state that their dispute is over domestic fees, not the cross-border interchange fees that were regulated by the EU.
I’m guessing you might have missed the subtly different attribution of sources in the BBC and Sky articles: the BBC attributes its “this is not about Brexit” directly to Amazon and Visa. The Sky article uses the somewhat weasely “it is understood” which is not attributed to anyone on the record at all.
Given that the Sky article was posted at 4pm and the BBC article followed two hours later, it’s highly likely - actually an absolute certainty, given the unequivocal nature of the statement - that the BBC reporter has directly asked both Amazon and Visa to clarify that point. That unequivocal denial that Brexit is responsible, following on from unattributed speculation that it might be, really ought to settle the matter.