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Caltex are rorting bastards
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Tue Oct 31, 2006 6:52 pmby Wattie
i hook into caltex today to re-juice the bike...
and the low pricks are charging 1% fee for using you credit card.
and like 5% or some crap for motorpass and diners and amex and stuff.
i know its not much, but they are still pricks. Not happy...
its only a matter of time b4 other servos get in on the crap too.
Posted:
Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:03 pmby hoffy
Do they declare it before you fill up or just sting you when u walk in?
Posted:
Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:05 pmby Wattie
there is a little flyer thing on one of the pumps.
they tell you b4 they swipe ya card..
Re: Caltex are rorting bastards
Posted:
Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:19 pmby Lucas
Wattie wrote:i hook into caltex today to re-juice the bike...
and the low pricks are charging 1% fee for using you credit card.
and like 5% or some crap for motorpass and diners and amex and stuff.
i know its not much, but they are still pricks. Not happy...
its only a matter of time b4 other servos get in on the crap too.
Mate Dinners and amex can charge the servo up to 10% for the transaction
and maybe you'll find that it's the franise sites that just can't compete with the likes of coles or safeway .. woolies
Posted:
Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:22 pmby Mizz ZZR
Same as BP Bulla, just a recent thing, and there's a note on the bowser warning you of the 1.??% fee for credit cards.
Of course eftpos and cash is fee free.
Posted:
Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:39 pmby Lainie
This was on a Current Affair a few months back
Posted:
Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:45 pmby Felix
1% to the shop to use the credit card, 50c to the bank to use the cashcard...
Posted:
Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:47 pmby red_dave
Well, my local Caltex didn't even have enough Unleaded to run the pumps...
Got to $7.00 before i got the shits, went inside and asked what the hell was going on.
"oh sorry, the unleaded is too low... you should use Vortex."
No signs or anything...
Posted:
Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:53 pmby mrmina
the mobile in tullamarine does the same thing. They charge 1.6% to use credit.
What a crock of crap.
Posted:
Tue Oct 31, 2006 8:00 pmby deafwish
Robbery!
It won't be long until Coles & Safeway's start charging a credit card fee.......
Posted:
Tue Oct 31, 2006 8:34 pmby WRT_GPX
i dont see what the problem is... especially if your filling up a motorbike 1% isnt much ... what if you get maybe 30 cent ontop of your fuel bill or even a buck, just use cash instead
?
Posted:
Tue Oct 31, 2006 8:39 pmby Lucas
suppose i dont care really
just swipe the Work fuel card ....... thing they get 3-4% off anyway
and i get 100% off hehehehehe
Posted:
Tue Oct 31, 2006 9:06 pmby Gosling1
WRT_GPX wrote:... just use cash instead :)?
End of problem. EFTPOS is also free. Not sure about 'debit' cards, but would think they are also free, as it is actually your own money you are using ??
Half the places up here won't accept Amex in the first place. I wonder if EFTPOS really means
Every
Fucking
Transactionisa
Piece
Of
Shit ??
Posted:
Tue Oct 31, 2006 9:18 pmby WRT_GPX
yeah debit cards all have a small charge from 5-50c
Posted:
Tue Oct 31, 2006 9:40 pmby Neka79
not the point..i use a visa card with my own $$ in it to save carrying cash...and i get charged a % if i go over the limit, so why should i pay an extra 1% ??
its happening everywhere...my gas/elec bills now if i pay credit card they charge like 1% or sumthin too...it shits me, it would cost em more for me to pay it in cash at Aus Post.... assholes..
from now on im not paying em on time..they can send me 2 or 3 late notes, costing them .50c a time...asswipes...