Money Matters: Is it legal for businesses to have 'minimum spend' amounts on eftpos purchases?

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Money Matters: Is it legal for businesses to have 'minimum spend' amounts on eftpos purchases?
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Are businesses allowed to do this? 9News

I have a consumer question for you - at my local cafe they have a minimum spend for eftpos transactions of $10.

According to Australia's consumer watchdog, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, a minimum spend amount doesn't even necessarily have to apply to eftpos. "They don't have to offer a card payment option, but they need to comply with the excessive surcharging rules regardless of the cost of the product."

Obviously from a business perspective, the more stipulations you put on a customer the less likely you are to make a sale, but that's for the free market to decide.

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