I’ve noticed that businesses are up charging for credit cards, incentivizing the use of cash. Especially in these mean economic times. Could this be part of the plan to ween everyone off of using credit cards? Cash puts the power back into the hands of the people. Just a thought
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I’m a small business owner as well, friend. Cheers. I seem to recall that a little while ago the credit card companies would not allow businesses to pass the fee along to the consumers as a stipulation for allowing them access to the card to collect payments.
I “think” that was a credit card company rule. Some business got around that by instead offering a cash discount (vs. a CC surcharge). Apparently this has changed and lots of places are now doing surcharges.
I but more with cash nowadays but am not quite there yet. I do almost always tip in cash as I don’t want them to pay taxes on it.
Indeed. Always tip in cash when possible. No need to get the government involved
That may depend on state law. We have the fee posted and we also tell customer about fee prior to charging. My state and city Guvs do the same thing for CC payments for permits, licenses etc. So does my local utility companies. We just add the fee to their total, not list it as a separate item.