• sgibson5150@slrpnk.net
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    5 months ago

    Just had my yearly car maintenance at the local VW shop. They’ve started passing on the credit card processing fees to the customer. It’s only like 3 or 4%, but it made me use a debit card instead of a CC. Guess that’s where we’re at now.

    • walden@sub.wetshaving.social
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      5 months ago

      I think a law passed allowing businesses to do this now. Before they were bound by their agreements with pay processors. Typically they allowed a discount for cash, but not an extra charge for credit. The whole “$10 minimum for credit cards” wasn’t supposed to happen, either.

      Now the payment processors aren’t allowed to enforce that type of rule.

      Source: I read a similar comment elsewhere on the internet a couple of years ago, and that’s what I remember from it.