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66%

66% -- share of consumers experiencing undisclosed debit card surcharges for Australian consumers (2024-09)

2024-09  · n=1,000  · CHOICE

66% of Australian consumers have often experienced businesses adding on a debit card surcharge without disclosing it beforehand.

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66%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2024-09
Entity
Australian consumers
Sample Size
1,000
Geography
AU
B
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61/100 confidence

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95
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
CHOICE Primary Tier A
https://www.choice.com.au/money/banking/everyday-banking/articles/card-surcharges-consumer-pulse ↗
Confidence: 57/100 Vintage: 2024-09 Channel: Deep Crawl
Source Article
Sneaky card surcharges hitting two-thirds of Australians' pockets - CHOICE
If you’ve ever paid by debit card at a shop or a restaurant only to later find out that a surcharge of a few percent has been added to your bill without your knowledge, you are far from alone. New nationally representative survey data from CHOICE has found that two in three people (66%) have often e…
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CHOICE · Original study ↗

Nationally representative CHOICE survey of more than 1000 consumers conducted September 2024

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Australian consumers: 66% share of consumers experiencing undisclosed debit card surcharges. Source: CHOICE (2024-09). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/debit-card-surcharge-experience-2024
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/debit-card-surcharge-experience-2024" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>66%</strong> -- share of consumers experiencing undisclosed debit card surcharges for Australian consumers<br><small>Source: CHOICE (2024-09) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/debit-card-surcharge-experience-2024" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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