Re: fun with your credit rating

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goldfarb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (David Goldfarb) wrote: 

>In article <aNKdnbjd3NscYmfanZ2dnUVZ_rGhnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Nels Satterlund  <NelsS@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>We toyed with doing this when I bought my 2004 Honda Civic DX (with AC),

>>but chickened out .. in part due to the knowledge that Visa/Mastercard 
>>charge a percentage fee and we didn't think the car dealer would go for
it.
>
>The copy shop I work for bought an oversize color scanner this year, 
>and the dealer we bought it from bumped up the price by a couple of
>percent to offset that.

That used to be illegal. It might still be. It has always been
legal to give a discount for not using a credit card, though.

IANAL.