Originally Posted by
Long Islander
I don't think this would work where I live because if you buy gas and charge it to your credit card, the price is 10 cents per gallon higher (this started around 2008). So, effectively, the clerk would be paying 10 cents for every $4 or so charged (or 2.50%) for the benefit.
Otherwise, any of us could just hang out by the pumps and offer to run our credit cards through for any customer paying cash (and maybe offer them a trinket in exchange) and take the cash from them.
Hmmm. Anybody live where they no longer charge a premium for using a credit card for a gas purchase?
Again, the clerk did not use his own credit card to pay for the customer's purchase. The customer used his own credit card. And I've never seen a place which charged a premium for buying fuel on a credit card, actually some places give you a
discount for paying by credit card.