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Old May 8, 2009 | 1:14 pm
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pjoalfa
 
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Originally Posted by tcook052
Your usual Marriott is where?

This lowly travel agent always understood it was contrary to a vendor member services agreements in place with the credit card companies to pass on the cost of the merchant fee to consumers. Has this changed?
Quite correct. It states clearly in the merchant agreement that this is prohibited. I believe you can also see that (digging) somewhere on visa or mastercard.com.

If it happened to me and I could not get it reversed at the hotel, I would certainly claim it to the credit card company.
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