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Fastrudy · 02-26-2011, 10:40 AM

No good bagels in appalachia. When I had a bread route, I moved 1000 dozen per week. Yes, they were hand rolled. That was in 1983, my cost was $.90 per dozen. I couldn't pay via Visa.

lifetimeliguy · 02-26-2011, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Gpsma

Let's all keep this in perspective..its FOURTY CENTS!!!!

actually it's not just forty cents - it's almost 4% of the charge.
It's called fraud and it's a crime.

Gpsma · 02-26-2011, 12:39 PM

Percent is not indicative of relative worth....40 cents is nothing to write home about or post on a BB

Gpsma · 02-26-2011, 12:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Fastrudy

No good bagels in appalachia. When I had a bread route, I moved 1000 dozen per week. Yes, they were hand rolled. That was in 1983, my cost was $.90 per dozen. I couldn't pay via Visa.

Yes. Hand rolled, boiled and baked. It's a shame there will generations that won't know what a real bagel tastes like.

Fastrudy · 02-27-2011, 08:54 AM

Percent is not indicative of relative worth

% is indicative of relative value; stating that it is only 40 cents is stating the absolute value. 12th grade math.

Gpsma · 02-27-2011, 10:03 AM

And only a 12 grader would care about 40 cents

limaman · 02-27-2011, 01:19 PM

"And only a 12 grader would care about 40 cents"

Wrong. A 40 something College graduate did and still does.

yoelmo · 02-28-2011, 08:10 AM

Sounds like the merchant passed his Visa transaction cost on to you. If so he's probably in violation of the terms of agreement between the merchant and Visa/Mastercard that to charge a customer to use a credit card. The merchant can give a cash discount but cannot pass the transaction cost on to you.

The right thing to do is to contact Visa