XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.books
From: michael.stemper@gmail.com
On 09/06/2013 05:35 PM, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy wrote:
> throopw@sheol.org (Wayne Throop) wrote in
> news:1378503496@sheol.org:
>> : Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy
>> : The scenario here is about fees to merchants, retard. A
>> : merchant is the store you buy shit from. They *do* pay fees,
>> : 100% of the time. There are *no* merchant accounts without
>> : fees. Merchant fees are, last I heard, more profitable than
>> : interest from card holders. The merchant - the store you buy
>> : shit from - pays higher fees, and they raise their prices to
>> : you, the customer, to cover it. That's how it works.
>>
>> And to top it off, iirc, there was a movement for the merchant
>> to pass the credit card fees on to only those who actually used
>> credit cards. But the card companies weilded their congressional
>> minnions, and made that illegal toot sweet.
>>
> To the best of my knowledge, it's not actually illegal, but a
> surcharge for using a credit card is prohibited by the merchant
> agreement. In recent years, however, that has been interpreted as
> saying that a discout for using cash is *not* prohibited (and is
> becoming quite common at gas stations, and I've seen it other places,
> too).
I don't know about California, but it was much more common here
(Minnesota) twenty years ago than it is now. However, it may be
coming back. A truck stop a few miles from me started doing this --
for diesel only -- about a year ago. It's the only place I know of
that does this. A limited set of anecdotal evidence, I know.
--
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