> > Nope, Usually credit card transactions are free for the payer > Bullshit, they charge interest on the loans and such. You should > read your credit card bills closer. Not sure if the rules are different over there then - after all, you add on extra charges to the ticket price when you reach the paypoint :) in the UK, almost all credit cards charge *no* interest at all on payments made with it provided you clear your balance when the bill comes in, and most charge no annual fee for usage either. A "handling charge" is applied if you use a cashpoint to withdraw money, but that is sensible as there there isn't a vendor to gouge :)
> > The CC contract insists on no surcharge (to the customers) for CC payments > ??? I guess the vendor who pays the fees to use credit cards > just pulls the money out of thin air...not hardly. *shrug* I am not responsible for for your problems there. In my experience (limited to the uk, admittedly) card usage is free, and vendors are under a contractual obligation (and I know this because I have signed such a contract) to the CC "swipe" box supplier (the "merchant account provider") not to add a surcharge for use of the card to pay; this leads to some strange situations, where companies will accept CCs to purchase goods, but will *not* accept them to pay bills. Mind you, if you wave a bundle of cash and mutter "discount for cash payment?" to a lot of companies, you can get a discount. but then, this is true *anyhow* particularly for payments over 100ukp to anything but the biggest of the high street names - and even then, usually a store manager has the discretionary power to apply discounts (usually booked as "shop soiled" (ie ex-display model) or "manager's special promotion")
