stogie1020

Anyone else noticing lot's of places are starting to impose a 1%-3% surcharge for using a credit card?

I find that a lot of the vendors I use for business are starting to impose this.

My marketing/advertising firm, my insurance, several software vendors.

It's really frustrating as CC payment is the easiest to track internally, least costly for accounting/bookkeeping to record, and the convenience of not having to log into my bank website to do a "bill pay" for a one-off check is nice.

Getting 2% back on a card seems not worth it if merchants are charging me 2% to use the damn thing... I wish they would just raise their prices 2%!

doopstr

It really grinds my sack when I get charged a convenience fee for buying tickets or renewing anything at the DMV.

nfnsquared

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Rapture

Interesting. I always thought it was illegal for merchants to do that.

I wish it was illegal

Although I've never encountered too many places that impose a surcharge, I have encountered plenty of places that "accept" a credit card yet discourage it.

gatrhumpy

iTrader: (1)

Freakin' DMV is notorious for this. I hate that.

doopstr

It used to be against the merchant agreement. Visa got sued and lost so now it's the wild west.