begin quoting MattyJ as of Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:33:07AM -0700: > <quote who="David Brown"> [snip] > > The question I just don't get: "ATM or credit". What it really means > > is, "Would you like to pay the transaction fee, or would you like us > > to?" > > From a merchant's perspective that's a legitimate question, because they > are *hoping* you pick ATM. If they automatically did an ATM transaction > I'm sure they'd get a class action suit sic'ed on them pretty quick, but > if you leave it up to the consumer to choose that, your hands are clean > and you get to keep that 25 cents. I presume that most consumers pick ATM.
A mindset I just don't understand. :) MY account. Keep your grubby paws off of it! If I want the money to come directly from my account, there's this little convention called "cash", and ATM machines are almost everywhere. -- It's not really paranoia. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
