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.
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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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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….
Wally only allows so many splits
Can Wally send a check to your property management company, for example?
Could you please expand on what you were referring to? the $15 for $2500? Thanks.
Moneygram at Walmart 16$ for 2500
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)
bexho2000 – The Plastiq 1.5% was for CC payments. Have you done this at WMT with credit?
Any idea if Plastiq will honor a series of payments set up today at the 1.5% rate?
Any risk of a clawback for those of us who did jump on it today before it went away?
Also made and scheduled a couple more mortgage payments, went thru normally…now wait & see
Arrrrrgh. I knew I should have made my monthly Plastiq payments as soon as I saw that post this morning!