A lot of business’s charge a “convenient fee” if you pay by credit card or debit instead of using cash or writing a check. I know our water department charges a $3.00 fee, if I wanted to make a payment with cc or debit card, which I do not use there. I write a check and it is just about the only check I write anymore.
I expected that from the huge town we moved from but not , not tiny town of 800 or less. Still wrong though
The only places around here that charge for a credit or debit, is the Asian owned places. Most places just raised their prices to absorb it. The Asian places also raised their prices but still keep charging the card fee. All my utilities give me a small discount for using a credit card. With those discounts and saving stamps, I save about $50 a month by using my credit card, plus get the end of year kick back that is usually about $300. That is $900 a year saved. I pay my card off totally every month so no interest. Not a lot of savings, but better than a poke in the patoot with a sharp stick.
They probably had to come up with ways to add money to the city coffers, G. 800 people is not much of a tax base to provide city services (water, sewer, police, fire, etc.)
Our town office is the only place that I am aware of around here that charges extra for using a credit card. I think it's $3.00 but I just make a point of carrying cash when it's time to register the car or pay my annual transfer station fee. When I first moved here 23 years ago, there were a lot of places that wouldn't even take cards.
They do that here with car registration renewal. Different charges for on line, check or CC payment. Surprisingly, on line is the most.
I mostly find those fees with government agencies that do not have a way to build the fees into their cost the way the businesses do. And I guess they don't think other taxpayers should fund it. I also believe there's this idea that people should not be going into debt for taxes and government utilities (nice of them to look out for us.) I was commenting in another thread that the only checks I write are to government (real estate and personal property taxes.) Everything else is plastic or online bill pay through my bank.
I do checks as much as possible. Even for my credit card bills although everyone seems bent on trying to change my habit. Changing the subject; This morning, after chores, I climbed into my car and found it is not as easy to wriggle out of my jeans as it was when I was 20. I was supposed to meet some friends for brunch but looked down and saw my knee brace was waaaaayyyy out of place and would cause more harm than good if allowed to remain there. I am late. Should I go into the barn to drop my drawers or just stay in the car. Dropping them past the brace was hard enough but getting them back up was worse. Just letting you know. Autumn romance is probably better in the barn.
A tragedy on Long Island A 28-year-old man was flipped out of his boat by a rogue wave last Sunday. There were witnesses to this accident and there was a four-day search in the area it happened. He went to school with my grandson and was friends with my granddaughter and her boyfriend. My granddaughter's boyfriend participated in the search first as a rescue then a recovery. They found his body yesterday here is excerpts from a news report " Massapequa man was found Thursday morning by Suffolk County underwater marine rescue, with "family and friends gathered," she said. "He was found in the location where rescue teams and divers were concentrating on..." My wife and I never met him but we heard all good things about him he was a good person our hearts and prayers go to the family and friends.
I drove to the west end of Richmond for my monthly catheter swap and decided to grab a bite, since I was in an area with good restaurants. I got the tab and thought it seemed high, so I looked at the details. Three dollars and seventy five cents for a daggone iced tea!!!!!! I hate it when they do that! But I feel so cheap asking for a glass of water.
It’s funny to think of it in this way but tea has the highest profit margin of anything that is served in a restaurant but if that was all they served, the restaurant would go broke. $3.75 does seem a bit high for a glass of tea so it must have been that thin wedge of lemon that got ya…. And do note: I too drink iced tea but Yvonne ALWAYS asks for water w/lemon. She rarely gets the lemon so I give the lemon from my tea to her instead of complaining.
On those rare occasions that we may go out to eat, I always ask for water. We don't drink soda and I don't like instant tea. I don't generally drink the glass of water with the meal in the restaurant, but I want it in case I have to choke something down. I always carry a bottle of water in the car with me, when I leave the house.
Iced tea and fountain soft drinks. They charge nearly 100x their cost. But as you said, you ain't gonna pay the rent on low dollar sales, no matter how great the profit margin. I think it was the ice that drove up the cost. Probably a City of Richmond climate change tax on the sudden cooling in my glass. See?????? It is real!!! I'm glad no one put an IR gun to my fries.
I'm hoping that you looked at the menu before ordering that iced tea for $3.75. Why are you ranting about it? Wasn't it hot enough to really enjoy guzzling down that cool drink you paid $3.75 for? Oh, John, John I love picking with you.