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Old May 20, 2009, 2:41 pm
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Originally Posted by biggestbopper
Differentials between cash and credit prices (around 10 cents/gallon) are likely to come down once gov cracks down on card company fees to merchants as was recently done in Australia.
I am not sure you want what have happened in Australia. Now the merchants officially can and DO pass on the merchants fees (and padded it big) to customers if the customers choose to pay by credit cards.

Try to purchase a ticket on QF site and you will see, for a $110 ticket the CC fee is almost $8 bucks!

Last edited by Happy; May 20, 2009 at 2:47 pm
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