Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
I'm annoyed when the hotel posts a separate (and incorrect) minibar charge several days after departure without telling me. I suspect part of the ploy is recognizing that if I do a chargeback, the amount is small enough that AmEx will eat it.
While that may be true, it is still used to calculate the chargeback holdback percentage. In times when cash is in short-ish supply, not many merchants are doing anything to make their cash position worse than it is.