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Curious that KFC says 'ATM as easy as cash' instead of 'Debit cards
accepted.'  So is there a difference between saying you're an ATM
versus saying you accept debit cards? 

A debit payment is fee-free, even if cash is returned.  But use an ATM
not belonging to your bank and you pay a fee.

Either way, what KFC is doing reeks of sleaze.  Easy as cash? 
Shouldn't that imply the same price?  Costing more is not as 'easy'...

In article <UaBn9.77939$8o3.1982351@twister.austin.rr.com>, SlinkyToy
<slinky@nospam.unixdork.org> wrote:

> 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
> news:3d9ebe49.37326622@news.ev1.net...
> > 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
> 
>