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In reply to the discussion: 3.5% to 4% fee for paying with a credit card everywhere [View all]DFW
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Tracking our every purchase (and thus location, preferences, which are then communicated/sold to advertisersor maybe government agencies?) is not something we let others do voluntarily. We lived with control freak socialist East Germany next door for decades. They drowned in their mountains of data on their citizens. If they had had modern IT, their little paradise would have been far more terrifying. We visited over there from time to time. Big Brother really was watching you.
We pay cash when and where practical. When its not (plane reservations, hotels, car rentals, etc.), we wire direct. Here in Europe, several airlines already charge a hefty surcharge if payment is made by credit card. In Cape Cod, when we need to gas up the rental car, which is not often, the distances being short, there is usually a published price difference on the pumps themselves. There is one line for cash pumps (cheaper) and one for credit card payment pumps. The gas station doesnt care which, since their net sale is the same.
We occasionally get confronted by advocates of a cashless society, whose line is always, so the government knows. What are you afraid of? We had visited the paradise of the true existing socialism, as East Germany used to call itself, on numerous occasions. Once you have experienced THAT a few times, you know what there is to be afraid of.
Act Blue already takes for themselves 3.95% of every contribution that goes through them. Deduct another 4% for the credit card company, and your candidate is down about 8%. That is $80,000 out of every million contributed through Act Blue that your candidates campaign never sees. We send checks.
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