Originally Posted by
drwilliams
once set up, auto bill payments remove any chance for a negotiation with the vendor as equals. The vendor knows he can get paid regardless. The cardmember is then not exactly bargaining from a position of strength.
....in Canada (I'm American). And this according to one (undoubtedly perfectly sincere and intelligent) poster on the Internet. So I'm hoping for corroboration plus clarification re: the US/Canada diff!