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TekMol on April 27, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Credit card fraud warning signs

When you accept credit cards, how long do you have to wait until you know the payment went through? Could you simply wait that amount of time for every order?

driverdan on April 27, 2018 [–]

Typically chargebacks can happen for 90 days. No one is going to wait that long for you to ship.

lucb1e on April 27, 2018 | [–]

I guess that's exactly why the period is so long: they force the merchant to ship before and take that risk.

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