New 'check-out' fees coming?

[Misfit]

New 'Check-Out' Fees Emerging | WPRI.com

(WPRI) - If you prefer to "swipe" at the checkout counter, you may start to notice an additional fee on your receipt.

Starting this week, merchants can tack on a charge up to 4% of your purchase. The change comes after a multi-billion dollar settlement between credit card companies and retailers.

[Dakota (Premo)]

How about we all just go back to writing checks.

[aps45819]

How about you just use your debit card

[Dakota (Premo)]

Originally Posted by aps45819

How about you just use your debit card

That is the thing.... most banks charge a fee when you use your card as a debit but it is free when you use it as a credit (or so it has been until this article).

I've always wondered why they charge a fee for debit purchases but don't charge a fee when you write a check? I would think processing checks would be more costly to the bank than say somebody just using a debit card.

[aps45819]

Originally Posted by Dakota

That is the thing.... most banks charge a fee when you use your card as a debit.

Don't think they do

https://www.navyfederal.org/products...ebit-cards.php

[slotpuppy]

Originally Posted by Misfit

New 'Check-Out' Fees Emerging | WPRI.com

(WPRI) - If you prefer to "swipe" at the checkout counter, you may start to notice an additional fee on your receipt.

Starting this week, merchants can tack on a charge up to 4% of your purchase. The change comes after a multi-billion dollar settlement between credit card companies and retailers.

They charge me, I take my business somewhere else, simple as that.

[Chasey_Lane]

Originally Posted by Dakota

That is the thing.... most banks charge a fee when you use your card as a debit but it is free when you use it as a credit (or so it has been until this article).

I've never had any of my banks (3 of them) charge a fee for debit or credit use. Curious to know what bank(s) you've encountered that do this?

[lovinmaryland]

Originally Posted by Chasey_Lane

I've never had any of my banks (3 of them) charge a fee for debit or credit use. Curious to know what bank(s) you've encountered that do this?

^^THIS^^

I've never been charged for debit or credit w/ BOFA

[ylexot]

I've never seen an additional charge for debit either.

[Dakota (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Chasey_Lane

I've never had any of my banks (3 of them) charge a fee for debit or credit use. Curious to know what bank(s) you've encountered that do this?

MD SECU - BoFA - Sun Trust

Now MD SECU doesn't charge (something they have changed used to be .75 cents per transaction) but sometimes venders can charge a fee and PNC doesn't. I no longer have BoFA or Sun Trust accounts.