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Re: Dear Linkedin,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Sun Jun 10 15:36:51 2012
In-Reply-To: <20436.58474.786115.356761@world.std.com>
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 12:32:22 -0700
To: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Cc: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>, NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
The agreements often prohibit minimums and cash discounts/card fees.
However, the Dodd-Frank act trumps the agreements as law > contract.
Owen
Sent from my iPad
On Jun 10, 2012, at 11:16 AM, Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com> wrote:
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> I was under the impression (I should dig out my contract) that
> merchant contracts also forbid charging more for a charge than for
> cash or conversely "discount for cash!" but I see so many violations
> of that particularly at gas stations I wonder if that's negotiable in
> the contract.
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> I remember my father buying a car and pulling out a credit card asking
> if they accepted them? The dealer said sure no problem so he said fine
> then take another 3% (whatever) off I'll pay cash/check.
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> --=20
> -Barry Shein
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