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Re: Dear Linkedin,

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Sun Jun 10 14:45:45 2012

Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 14:45:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <201206101840.q5AIebR1002864@mail.r-bonomi.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Bonomi" <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>

> Gas stations that offer a 'discount for cash' do not give that discount
> even for 'house brand' cards -- which do not have any fees that are
> payable to the issuer.

In fact, that's not true.  Several chains, notably including Shell, have
at one time or another advertised that their house card (not a house-branded
credit card, but an actually gas charge card) took the cash price.

Cheers
-- jra
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