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Banks have to hold up their end of the customer agreement (contract), and the terms of that agreement are enforced by contract law.

I've yet to see a bank's customer agreement wherein the contractually-defined protections for debit cards varied significantly from the legally-defined protections for credit cards. (I haven't made an exhaustive study of this, but I have read the fine print for every new bank account that I've considered.)

If you can find a customer agreement that is meaningfully different in this aspect, then: I'm all ears.

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jjav2y ago· 1 in thread

> Banks have to hold up their end of the customer agreement (contract), and the terms of that agreement are enforced by contract law.

Right, but they can change those unilaterally whenever they feel like it. Multiple times a year I'll get an updated terms of service document from this or that bank.

ssl-3OP2y ago

So you can point to a bank's a customer agreement that is meaningfully different in this aspect compared to federal requirements for credit cards, then?

Or maybe you're just spilling FUD?

Just because a thing can change, doesn't mean that it will. (It doesn't even mean that it has ever changed.)

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