Wonder how much of that 8 billion in payments/year they see. 2.75% (their fee) of 8 billion is 220 million. How much of that do they have to pay out to the payment networks?
They almost certainly actually lose money on the $1 transactions (their fee is under 3 cents but you'd typically have north of 20 cents of interchange fees).
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