Gas: Cash is King

[Jenn]

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Against the law in the state of mass....This was passed many years ago. Also against the contract they sign to accept credit cards. I cannot legally charge you more for buying with a credit card....neither can they....they can and will lose their ability to process cards if someone complains. Every retailer who accepts credit cards loses a percentage, it's a part of doing business and is already built into the price.

Interesting. are you sure of this Salty? I did not know that either....stopped last night and filled up with super @ $4.25 a gallon. As I was pumping I was reading the sign on the pump that stated due to rising debit/credit card fees they were offering a cash discount. $4.05 if you paid cash!!!! of course I was a little miffed I was paying 20 cents more a gallon on my debit card

[Nebe]

I wonder what the prices will be like next year???

I see no problem with this- I take CC's at my gallery and have always givin a discount for cash sales... it costs ME money to provide the service of taking CC #'s..... its not like that service is free.

[UserRemoved1]

Absolutely positive. I have two merchant banking accounts and both are written into the contracts. They can and will pull anyones contract that gets caught doing this. This all came to head years ago in Ma when virtually all the gas stations were doing this. It was in the news for a while and the state Atty General went after a bunch of people then it all stopped. You cannot legally charge more for use of a credit card nor can you offer a cash discount as it's the same thing in reverse.

To the BEST of my knowledge Ma has NOT changed their laws. I have not heard anything on this nor have I seen any information from the bank indicating otherwise.

Now these stations may offer you whatever they want but the bottom line is they are trying to save the money THEMSELVES and I can guarantee you that if you dropped a dime to Mastercard/Visa/Etc that they would shut them down in a heartbeat. Once MC/Visa/etc dumps you then you are done period with them.

Originally Posted by Jenn

Interesting. are you sure of this Salty? I did not know that either....stopped last night and filled up with super @ $4.25 a gallon. As I was pumping I was reading the sign on the pump that stated due to rising debit/credit card fees they were offering a cash discount. $4.05 if you paid cash!!!! of course I was a little miffed I was paying 20 cents more a gallon on my debit card