Ban on card charges being circumvented already

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As we all know the recent changes in the rules have recently come in to forces to stop companies charging a fee to use your cards. Great or so I thought.

Just Eat being out weekly treat it always irked me that I had to pay 50p to pay by card and no other option is available I.e cash.

Well my wife an I thought we would order Chinese this evening to discover there is now a 50p service charge. Effectively the little bds have just named it something else and carried on as before.

Now 50p I grant you isn’t a lot but it’s the principal. I suppose this means all the airlines, car dealerships hat used to charge a card fee will now just charge a service fee instead. More importantly these credit card fees were regulated and had limits. These new service charges I can see being another scam as they are no doubt unregulated and will end up being more than the old credit card fees. In fact if you were a smart dealer selling dodgy cars then putting extortionate ‘service charges’ would be a good way of bullying customers out of using a credit card and the protection using them affords you.

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SmoothCriminal said:

I used to use just eat but the principle of a 50p service charge for them doing basically fk all even tho i use cash means...

I now search their platform for a takeaway

Place the items I want in the basket.

Google said takeaway.

Phone and place order.

Close down just eat.

Inb4 should be well built company director worrying about 50p....

This is exactly what I will do. I will use just eat solely for the menu.

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sidicks said:

MB140 said:

As we all know the recent changes in the rules have recently come in to forces to stop companies charging a fee to use your cards. Great or so I thought.

Just Eat being out weekly treat it always irked me that I had to pay 50p to pay by card and no other option is available I.e cash.

Well my wife an I thought we would order Chinese this evening to discover there is now a 50p service charge. Effectively the little bds have just named it something else and carried on as before.

Now 50p I grant you isn’t a lot but it’s the principal. I suppose this means all the airlines, car dealerships hat used to charge a card fee will now just charge a service fee instead. More importantly these credit card fees were regulated and had limits. These new service charges I can see being another scam as they are no doubt unregulated and will end up being more than the old credit card fees. In fact if you were a smart dealer selling dodgy cars then putting extortionate ‘service charges’ would be a good way of bullying customers out of using a credit card and the protection using them affords you.

Do you think it doesn't cost businesses to use credit card suppliers?

Then why did the EU go to all the trouble of banning them. Oh I know the fees charged are often multiple times the cost they incur as a business. This was meant to be a law to stop this. In effect it has just opened and then up to charge what they like.

I wonder if this will be the next PPI solicitors get rich quick scheme.

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I know in the case of just eat it’s inly 50p, my concern is more the likes of our favourite Irish airline who would charge you for a sheet of bog paper if he could. What’s to stop them just sticking stupidly over inflated services charges on that are now no regulated.

My wife and I holiday with Thomsons (tui), paying to sit next to the same people you book your flight with is another con. I’m waiting for the day when someone just dumps a 10 year old in the middle of a plane as they refuse to pay to sit next to there own child.

Just pure ish daylight robbery. Another practice that should be banned. If it was up to me I would sit anywhere but my wife doesn’t like flying so insists on paying extra to sit together.