{"id":91636,"date":"2014-04-20T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-travel-company-charged-me-100-to-use-a-credit-card\/"},"modified":"2018-06-18T11:03:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T04:03:25","slug":"a-travel-company-charged-me-100-to-use-a-credit-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-travel-company-charged-me-100-to-use-a-credit-card\/","title":{"rendered":"A travel company charged me \u00a3100 to use a credit card"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nHaving paid for a holiday, there’s an extra cost \u2026I booked a \u00a35,000-plus holiday through Travelbag over the phone. It was only when I came to pay that I was told that there would be an extra charge of more than \u00a3100 because I was paying by credit card. I thought these card charges had either been stopped or are due to be. PS, LondonCredit and debit card fees charged by retailers were indeed capped last April \u2013 the former at 2.5% \u2013 so Travelbag can legitimately charge you this so long as it reflects the bank costs incurred in processing the payment. The typical fee charged by banks to retailers for processing credit card transactions is 0.9%, but this month the European parliament voted to impose a 0.3% cap on this. Travelbag says the \u00a3100 charge is what it had to pay the bank to process the payment. “The customer was given extra time to settle the bill and our head of sales discussed with her payment options that would avoid incurring extra costs, such as an online bank transfer,” a spokesperson says. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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