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- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 16:21:11 MST
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- From: $stephan@sasb (Stephan Fassmann, Software)
- Subject: Re: The unhappy byproduct of gas stations and ATM cards
- References: <Bx9vxr.7zu@chinet.chi.il.us>
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- In article <Bx9vxr.7zu@chinet.chi.il.us> koziarz@chinet.chi.il.us (Louis Koziarz) writes:
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- >I fill up, walk inside, hand the girl my ATM card, she replies 'Our Cash
- >Station connection is down'. NOW what am I gonna do? I tell her 'I wish you
- >had a sign outside that said that'. She shrugs. I take out my credit card,
- >I don't have enough cash, she replies 'Well I'm going to have to charge you
- >the credit rate now instead of cash'. Now I'm steamed. I'm gonna talk to
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- I thought it was illegel to charge more for using a credit card then for
- cash. I think I read this in the local paper but it was some time ago.
- Anyone know for sure?
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