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Have you ever bought a plane ticket in Europe or Australia? They offer free transactions that are not credit-card based. It's fairly common to have an extra fee
by marquis 15y ago
Have you ever bought a plane ticket in Europe or Australia? They offer free transactions that are not credit-card based. It's fairly common to have an extra fee in a lot of non-US online and off-line stores.
- radicalbyte 15y ago> They offer free transactions that are not credit-card based. If you're referring to RyanAir (and the other low-cost airlines), then they only offer free transactions on obscure payment types. From what I've seen the 'free' transaction type changes whenever a more obscure and impractical payment system becomes available. They do that so that they can legally advertise lower prices that they charge in practise.
- marquis 15y agoI'm referring to most travel agents outside of the U.S. and perhaps Europe, and many restaurants, shops, boutiques. They pass the credit card fee directly to the customer in many instances, which I'm usually fine with. Larger stores will eat the fee but many smaller businesses can't do that.