http://tylerhannan.com/2007/12/credit-card-surcharges/ reflections from the intersection of technology and payments Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://tylerhannan.com/2007/12/credit-card-surcharges/comment-page-1/#comment-16 shannon Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:57:00 +0000 http://tylerhannan.com/2007/12/credit-card-surcharges/#comment-16 i have seen these signs up, still, at a lot of places and they are annoying, especially knowing that these businesses aren't allowed to charge this surcharge for <a HREF="http://www.onlinecheck.com/merchant_accounts/credit_card_processing.html" REL="nofollow">credit card processing</a>. but, what businesses ARE allowed to do, is offer a cash discount for items. i haven't actually seen this in practice at all yet, and i don't think it would make a difference to me if i did come accross it. everyone should accept credit cards , and not charge for it! i have seen these signs up, still, at a lot of places and they are annoying, especially knowing that these businesses aren’t allowed to charge this surcharge for credit card processing. but, what businesses ARE allowed to do, is offer a cash discount for items. i haven’t actually seen this in practice at all yet, and i don’t think it would make a difference to me if i did come accross it. everyone should accept credit cards , and not charge for it!

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