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.
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.
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).
Welcome to banks, some of them just suck.
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.
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.
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).
It’s a good job the kind of person who doesn’t read safety signs isn’t handling explosives. /sarcasm