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Well, interesting.  Albertsons, HEB, Walmart and a host of other places
accept my ATM/Visa, give me cash back, and don't charge me an extra fee.
Even tho they're "acting as an ATM".  The cash I get back at the register
certainly isn't a "cash advance" as I'm using my debit card, and the
transaction as a whole isn't a "credit transaction", its a debit.

I guess I'd be asking KFC exactly what they're doing with that 99c if
they're collecting it as an "ATM fee".  In order to accept plastic of any
sort (debit, credit) a merchant has to pay a processing fee; I have yet to
meet a merchant outside of Ebay who doesn't absorb that fee.

But since I don't eat KFC I really don't care...


"Monte" <montep@email.com> wrote in message
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> Tracey the clueless bemoaned->
> .Good ol Kentucky Fried Chicken has a new sign out back that says "
> Atm
> .as easy as cash!"  So,  I thought KFC might be a good idea for dinner
> .tonight, and I pulled in the drive thru  and placed my order.
> .When I got the total at the window and handed them my ATM card for
> .payment, they said "we are adding a charge of  99 cents to your order
> .because you're using an ATM card."   I said to them that they must be
> .joking, right?  But they surely were not.
> .Many Wendy's restaurants now accept Visa and M/C, and they do not
> charge
> .you an extra fee just for your ATM card even if it happens to be a
> check
> .card.
> .So, beware KFC's extra charge for using your ATM!
> .
> .If we complain, they will stop this practice.
> .http://tracey518.tripod.com/
>
> Well, you dimbulb, you might consider asking about purchases BEFORE
> making them.  As opposed to credit cards which are a fixed percentage
> 3-4% of purchase, ATM's are flat-rate or a minimum plus a percentage.
> They are CASH ADVANCES and if you READ the info that your bank gives
> you when you get an ATM card you would know that.  Since KFC is acting
> as an ATM they collect the bank fee up front.
>
> But I really wouldn't expect a wingnut to delve into details and
> facts, they don't in their politics or religion: It interferes with
> their dinner whines!
>
> "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart
> people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean
> it."  --Mark Twain - or someone who spoke a helluva lot like him