• Cevilia (she/they/…)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        11·
        15 days ago

        That’s a really fucked up system. Sorry you have to deal with that shit. Over here the banks don’t get a say in how much the hold is for, merchant requests a £40 hold, bank holds £40 until the transaction’s closed. End of.

        • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          5·
          15 days ago

          I’m in Australia so it isn’t as bad as the image, but 24h pending time for a purchase is fairly normal here. Anything that isn’t direct person to person seems to have some kind of wait to it, although if I directly pay a friend 100 it’s instant.

        • intrapt@sh.itjust.works
          4·
          15 days ago

          Unless it’s a weekend, then they might hold it until monday (or even tuesday). I work in a petrol station in the UK and we have a sticker a bit like the one in the post on our pumps, but no-one ever seems to read it (or any of the health and safety signs, for that matter).

    • kautau@lemmy.world
      6·
      15 days ago

      It might mostly be the banks, but I know of one gas station near me that hits that max hold, and then seconds after I’m done filling, the charge quickly switches to 30 or so dollars I put in. Whereas the other gas station that hold stayed there for almost a day. My guess is intermediary card processors play a part as well. I also learned place number 2 sells fake BIC lighters, so I don’t go there anymore.

    • foggy@lemmy.world
      6·
      15 days ago

      It’s to curb gas theft. They’re making sure you can fill the RV before you fill the RV.

    • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      15 days ago

      That’s normal. Although here it’s usually £100. Which is good because my card caps out at £100 daily

  • porksnort@slrpnk.net
    9·
    15 days ago

    These advertisement-delivery systems at the pumps piss me off. They blare loudly.

    Here’s a question for the techie crowd.

    I used to be able to press the physical buttons on either side of these screens and get the ads to mute. It was a two-button combo I discovered using a systematic method as a way to control my irritation at the excessive volume. It was either that or stick a pencil in the speaker.

    This worked at gas stations in several states for months. The mute feature was surely written in as a sanity saver for the developers and technicians. It stopped working a few weeks ago, so I guess the pushed out a patch.

    Not much of a question I guess, except what gives? Does anyone have insight into these systems for realsies?

  • ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world
    7·
    15 days ago

    You know, every time I see something like this, I wonder how many government endpoints are Windows-based. This sends a shiver down my spine.