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Article #3533Re: Credit card surcharges
From: jw434-81
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 00:00
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twhite@negia.net (Tom White) wrote:
>Cynthia Smathers (cynthia@mindspring.com) wrote:
>: Someone at her credit card company told my roommate that those surcharges
>: are illegal, or that they violate the store's agreement with the credit
>: card companies, or something like that. Anybody got further info on the
>: subject?
>Speaking of credit card surcharges and mindspring, Mindspring is
>the only company I know of that actually has a surcharge for paying
>cash/check! The price they quote is the "credit-card" price.
>Evidently, it is easier for them to bill monthly on the credit card.
Sure, it is much easier. They just send the bill by e-mail and show
that your account balance is now 0.00 because they have charged your
monthly fee to your credit card.
>So I've heard,
>-Tom
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10e1e4,105e8cfb358883bb X-Google-Attributes: gid10e1e4,public X-Google-Thread: 10675e,105e8cfb358883bb X-Google-Attributes: gid10675e,public X-Google-Thread: fe891,105e8cfb358883bb X-Google-Attributes: gidfe891,public From: jw434-81@atl.mindspring.com Subject: Re: Credit card surcharges Date: 1996/06/22 Message-ID: <4qfqqd$1to0@mule1.mindspring.com> X-Deja-AN: 161499600 references: <4q98jm$74d@hobbes.cc.uga.edu> <4qa22v$2qd4@mule2.mindspring.com> <4qabmb$hir@gaia.cc.gatech.edu> <31c8bdfc.40686224@news.mindspring.com> <4qev0f$7kk@okra.negia.net> organization: MindSpring Enterprises, Inc. newsgroups: ahn.general,uga.general,atl.general