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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 6738647, member: 27832&quot;]For many years, credit-card companies (and laws their lobbyists promoted) prohibited merchants from charging a different price for credit vs. cash or check. That&#039;s no longer the case, so more and more merchants are passing along transaction fees to their customers. Where they can&#039;t get away with that (hi, PayPal), they instead offer &quot;cash discounts&quot; to people paying with cash or check.</p><p><br /></p><p>It seems to me that it&#039;s up to the merchant and customer to agree on a price, and payment-method costs are fair input into that negotiation. It really grinds my gears to see restrictions like PayPal&#039;s, or like the ones big credit-card companies once managed to disguise as &quot;consumer-protection legislation&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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