Gas Stations Sneaky Trick – Pics and ABC News video of gas stations sneaky trick where they add a hidden charge to the gas price for using your credit card.
The gas stations sneaky trick involves advertising a low cash price and then tacking on a huge surcharge for using a credit card or debit card to pay for gas.
Visa charges about 2% to process a credit card transaction at a gas station and about 1% to process a debit card.
The sneaky trick that gas stations are using is to jack up the credit “fee” to sometimes astronomical amounts.
One New York City gas station’s trick was charging an extra $0.50 per gallon above the advertised price for credit card transactions.
Gas Station Sneaky Trick Video
And that’s the latest news on the gas stations sneaky trick.
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