Using your flexible friend in a tackle shop!?!

[Guest Gaffer]

Twice now in two different tackle shops I've been asked to buy more stuff to get over the £10 mark or they won't use my card.

 

Why is this?

 

And why have I only experienced this in tackle shops?

 

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All the best,

 

Gaffer

[Guest Elton]

Gaffer,

 

It happens in other places....honest!

 

It's all down to the charges imposed by the credit card companies for processing the transaction.

 

It's like me with AN and cheques - I'd love to sell small stuff like badges and things, but I get charged for every cheque, which bumps up the price.

 

All the best,

 

Elton

 

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[Guest dave k]

because they have to pay to take a payment on your card gaffer

 

My local takle shop charge 40p per transaction if you spend less than £10.

 

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[Guest Gaffer]

Well that's not very fair!! (go on , say life's not fair! )

 

So how do shops do mail order then on small items?...it must cripple them!?

 

 

 

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All the best,

 

Gaffer

[Guest paul mc]

i went fishing last summer after about an hour i noticed i had'nt brought a drink so i went to the garage to get a bottle of water. Not having any cash i tried to buy 5 bottles (just to bump the price up cos i was paying by card)i was told that the minimum purchase by card was a tenner so i had to buy £10 worth of water and windscreen cleaner

[Guest Keith]

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Originally posted by Gaffer:

So how do shops do mail order then on small items?...it must cripple them!?

 

Probably on the assumption that - usually - you'll buy more than £10 worth, to make the postage worthwhile!

 

Joking apart, when I've bought "bits and pieces" online, I've felt honour bound to spend more than £10.

 

I feel like a skinflint otherwise!

 

 

 

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Yours,

 

Keith

Blyth,

Northumberland

 

mailto:keith@go-fishing.co.ukkeith@go-fishing.co.uk

http://www.wacac.co.uk

[Guest Elton]

I run a mail order business in 'real life', and most people are like Keith. Although you'll always get the odd one who'll buy something tiny on a credit card, most spend over 20 quid.

 

Elton

 

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[Guest Bretty]

You wanna see my local newsagents/off license (the one thats been held up at gun point 4times this year). It's in a student district which means every one spends about a pound and use their card There's always a big que at the tills. Students!! They do charge 50p for cash back tho

 

Bretty

[Guest Rob Ward]

I've just been charged seven pounds by Liverpool Football Club for paying for my £400 season ticket by Visa.

 

Which I thought was very ****ing cheeky!

[Guest RobStubbs]

The odd thing is that some shops charge extra whilst others don't. It is also only a charge applied to credit cards yet those of us that use debit type cards still get hit at times. I think in part it is to offset charges but it can also be abused to add a little extra money to the bill.

 

Rob.