CCs charge 2-6% per transaction, which the vendor has to pay. Wonder who will foot the bill since the petrol price in this country is regulated or maybe they'll add a surcharge for CC transactions.
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Question of the Day: How do you normally pay for purchases in stores?
Petrol Stations must accept cards
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CCs charge 2-6% per transaction, which the vendor has to pay. Wonder who will foot the bill since the petrol price in this country is regulated or maybe they'll add a surcharge for CC transactions.
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
now apparently I hear that they are not compelled to. If they do not have the facilities or do not want to accept the cards they can simply put up a sign saying they do not accept cards.
Peder
Hobbit
so i wonder who pays for my transaction when i buy with my bidvest card? i don't pay for EFT's
Petrol cards are debit cards, and you pay for those transactions, or both you and the vendor pay. In the case of CC the vendor pays the transaction fee, you pay nothing, that's why CCs are so nice and a bonus if you get points like Ebucks - then you can pay your Telkom phone bill, cell phone bill etc and collect ebucks that way.
That's right, the minister confirmed that they are not forced to take cards.
I only fill up at petrol stations that do take cards, and as mentioned before there's many in PE that do take cards now - I guess that they had to follow suite.
I like the US arrangement - no pump jockeys and you insert your card in the pump and select and fill up, or key in a specific amount.
Never had that happen when I fill up - might be unique to your area - whose number do they record on it, their friends taxi ?.They record the licence plate number on those slips.
Depends on the state but in general that is an option - full or self service.
I think the problem here would be the unemployment that would cause as well as the inevitable strikes etc.
In the late 80's the CEO of Pick n Pay dropped the price of fuel and did away with the pump jockey's (gave them other employment) and it all went belly up when the suppliers stopped supplying his stations. The government of course complained like hell, and most likely put pressure on the suppliers.
Yeah the apartheid government insisted that service stations were not-self service but manned with 'petrol jockey' staff and then of course the fuel price is also fixed.
They always record my number - then again I always pay with a petrol card and never pay cash.
Self service petrol stations are the norm rather than the exception worldwide. In Asia, Europe, US -over 90% of the stations were self-service.
In Malaysia and Middle East they leave the engine running while fueling up - be it LPG, diesel or petrol. That's to avoid switching off the essential air-conditioning even for a few minutes.
Japan and Korea have sexy young girls fill up your car for you - very nice - no self service in Japan, Korea and China.