Posts by recovering grinch 4 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Feb 2015
Your average Googlista would sniff at these, except possibly the Ally Capelino.
Check out this: http://www.hardgraft.com/collections/13-macbook-air/products/back2back-heritage
or this:
http://www.mulberry.com/shop/mens/messenger-bags/slim-brynmore-oak-natural-leather
or for the decidedly fashion (and wallet) forward:
http://www.bottegaveneta.com/gb/men/onlineboutique/messenger-bags-and-backpacks
The problem here is the credit card, or rather the use of an easily stolen credential across multiple transactions.
Alternatives do exist, but are successfully avoided by charging the merchant (and ultimately the consumer) to insure the fraudulent transactions, and always reversing the transactions at the expense of the merchant (who then loads the price even further to self-insure much as they do for "shrinkage"). Banks are rewarded for this with termination fees creating a cartel.
Until the greedy bankers/schemes are removed from the equation this will always be so. For those in the industry, PSD2 is coming, and that will change things for the better, assuming our politicians can stomach the loss in income.
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