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0 pointsINTPenis4y ago0 comments

> Hotel would only except credit card details sent via plaintext emails

This seems very common issue in hotel business. I regularly travel with Amex business travel and our travel agency sends a temporary cc# to the hotel so I don't have to pay for the room.

So that's a temporary cc# which is a little safer, but it's e-mailed in cleartext to the hotel regularly for thousands of guests.

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lotsofpulp4y ago

It is because the major hotel brands franchise their brands, and want the franchisees to take on all the merchant account risks of chargebacks and whatnot.

Marriott/Hilton/Hyatt/IHG/Choice/Wyndham/etc collect 5% to 20% of top line revenue from the hotel, and do not want to deal with losses from things like chargebacks and whatnot.

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