Seattlest: Javadise Lost: Part IV

MB

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:48:43 -0800

One of the coffee shops in Bellevue that I would frequent had a sign regarding an extra charge on debit card transactions... forget how much it was. They removed it when a fellow banker informed them that doing so is actually illegal. Well, not "illegal", per se... To charge additional fees based on the size of the transactions is usually a violation of the merchant's card agreement and they could lose the ability to take cards altogether.

Will D

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 01:03:10 -0800

Clint-- I would be super, super, super PISSED off if that happened to me. I haven't been to that particular Ladro, but is it *possible* that the $1 is a pay-with-a-card related fee? Is there a sign at the till that reads, "transactions under a $X, $Y, or $Z will be charged an additional dollar?" One of the grocery stores in my neighborhood used to do that to keep the number of card-transactions they had to do down. But at least they told you about it first. Just a thought. If it's not, and if they did take a buck off you, well... that just isn't cool.

let's get some shoes

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:48:45 -0800

Yup. I've had this happen at Ladro as well. I don't know if they were laughing when I called to mention it, but they didn't seem to think it was a big deal. I guess it wasn't, really, but I know I was smiling when I had BofA hit them with a chargeback (at least a $25 fee) for their impudence.