Plastiq 1.5% fee was a glitch

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We reported earlier today that Plastiq was running an unadvertised special where they charged only 1.5% for Mastercard payments rather than the usual 2.5% fee.  Unfortunately, this was an error which has now been fixed.  The promo was intended only for a specific set of targeted users in Canada for Plastiq’s tax season campaign.

Plastiq Mastercard 1.5% Fee
This 1.5% promo was not intended to be generally available.
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[…] was (for a very short time) offering all payments made on a Mastercard for a fee of just 1.5%, but it turned out to be a glitch that was not intended to be so widely available. However, if you scheduled future payments during the time when Plastiq was showing a 1.5% rate, […]

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bexho2000

Scratching my head at how can this be considered such a great deal when you can send money to yourself/anyone at any wally for just $15 for $2,500….

Lord Dima

Wally only allows so many splits

Chatname

Can Wally send a check to your property management company, for example?

Alex

Could you please expand on what you were referring to? the $15 for $2500? Thanks.

Namey

Moneygram at Walmart 16$ for 2500

Namey

But that is for international transfers. Not sure if the same rate for domestic, because online it shows that is higher (which does not make sense)

Nun

bexho2000 – The Plastiq 1.5% was for CC payments. Have you done this at WMT with credit?

Rick

Any idea if Plastiq will honor a series of payments set up today at the 1.5% rate?

Bob

Any risk of a clawback for those of us who did jump on it today before it went away?

Ktc

Also made and scheduled a couple more mortgage payments, went thru normally…now wait & see

Ed. C

Arrrrrgh. I knew I should have made my monthly Plastiq payments as soon as I saw that post this morning!