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<DIV>I'm afraid that most credit card companies prohibit the approach of =
passing
along the cost of the handling to the consumer. If the credit card =
company
finds out that you've charged a different (greater) price for a card =
customer
compared to a cash customer they can and will terminate your right to =
accept
their card. This happened to a friend of my who ran a massage =
therapy
school. He was selling massage tables and a part of his business =
and
giving a discount to cash customers. Visa terminated him (so to
speak).</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: =
black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=Erwinspiano@aol.com
href="mailto:Erwinspiano@aol.com">Erwinspiano@aol.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A =
title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, November 06, =
2002 9:17
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Credit Cards</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 =
face="Times New Roman"
size=2 FAMILY="SERIF">In a message dated 11/5/2002 9:17:15 PM =
Pacific Standard
Time, <A =
href="mailto:DJ_Streit@hotmail.com">DJ_Streit@hotmail.com</A>
writes:<BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: =
#ffffff"
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TYPE="CITE">Subj:<B>Re: Credit Cards </B><BR>Date:11/5/2002 9:17:15 =
PM
Pacific Standard Time<BR>From:<A
=
href="mailto:DJ_Streit@hotmail.com">DJ_Streit@hotmail.com</A><BR>Reply-=
to:<A
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A><BR>To:<A
href="mailto:tito@philbondi.com">tito@philbondi.com</A>, <A
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A><BR><I>Sent =
from the
Internet </I><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: =
#ffffff"
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Pass the
three percent along to your clients</BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR></FONT><FONT =
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FAMILY="SERIF"> &n=
bsp; &nb=
sp;
Dale Erwin</FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" =
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TYPE="CITE"></B><BR>I've gotten a few bigger jobs like refinishing =
because I
take credit cards<BR>which I wouldn't have gotten otherwise. =
At first
I didn't want to do<BR>tunings on credit cards, but I found it =
wasn't too
bad. The credit card<BR>company takes 3%, some people think =
that is
too much, but I can live with it<BR>if it keeps my clients =
happy. I
don't get but a handful of these jobs per<BR>year anyway, but the =
clients
seem to like the option and it gives them<BR>reassurance of
credibility.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0
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