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- From: avk@hafnium.cchem.berkeley.edu (Tony Konashenok)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: The unhappy byproduct of gas stations and ATM cards
- Date: 10 Nov 1992 00:33:06 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- >>|> 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?
- > I don't know of any such "law" in the first place. There are
- > credit card merchant contracts for cards like Visa, MC, Amex
- > which prohibit such practices, but these are strictly contracts
- > that allow the credit card company to cancel a merchant who
- > violates them...not that most won't if offered cash.
-
- At any rate, here in the S.F. Bay Area many gas vendors stopped
- surcharging for using plastic a few months ago. The only ones who
- keep doing it are "generic" vendors. Chevron, Exxon, Shell, BP do
- not surcharge, ARCO doesn't accept plastic other than ATM cards
- (they still surcharge 15c per transaction, but it is the feature of
- the PayPoint network rather than vendor's discretion).
-
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- Tony Konashenok avk@hafnium.cchem.berkeley.edu (510)843-5632 (home)
- University of California, Berkeley (510)642-5831 (office)
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