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On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 14:05:24 -0700, graham > wrote:

>On 07/01/2016 1:39 PM, wrote:
>> On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 13:19:34 -0700, graham > wrote:
>>
>>> On 07/01/2016 11:44 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>> On 1/7/2016 12:09 PM, Gary wrote:
>>>>> Ophelia wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> +1 sf simply doesn't understand how our debit cards work.
>>>>>
>>>>> That's evidently true. She seems to think that you pay a transaction
>>>>> fee every time you use a debit card. It's not true at all.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Correct, the merchant pays a fee. You just pay higher prices for
>>>> everything as the merchant has it build into the selling price.
>>>
>>> During a visit to the US some years ago I was astonished to find gas
>>> stations offering a discount for cash but full price for credit cards.
>>> That practice is not allowed in Alberta. If a merchant tries that, the
>>> companies come down on him like a ton of bricks, The same used to apply
>>> when merchants tried to apply minimum purchase amounts. I've seen people
>>> using plastic to pay for a $2 coffee, which is ridiculous, even allowing
>>> for the high profit margin on that drink.
>>> Graham
>>
>> The other one was full price for full service instead of pumping your
>> own.
>>
>No! They were self-serve stations. They gave a discount for cash.

I mean there were other stations where if you chose full serve it cost
more than if you pumped your own.