How do government agencies get away with their massive violation of the credit card acceptance policies?

by
Filed under: Finance 

Question by Lu: How do government agencies get away with their massive violation of the credit card acceptance policies?
Merchants are NOT supposed to set minimum spending amounts for customers to be able to use a credit card, and they are not supposed to charge any additional fee for a customer to use their credit card on a purchase. In order to pay with a credit card, the Cook County Circuit Court makes you call an 866# where “Government Payment Service, Inc” takes your credit card info, bills you the purchase amount PLUS a 4.75% transaction fee.

Best answer:

Answer by Quizzard
That situation is entirely between the government agency and the credit card company. If any company or organization has a credit card facility, they have an agreement with the card company that involved certain rules. The card company may make whatever such agreement they choose, including the payment of additional fees.

However, Government Payment Service, Inc is NOT a government agency, it is a private company which handles credit card payments. The Court does not pay them to do that, it is provided by the company to the CLIENT (you) as an alternative to paying the Court directly. They charge YOU the fee for doing that, and the Court gets their full amount, as they should. You are told the fee and must agree to pay it before the transaction can proceed.

Don’t use the Service, and the problem goes away.

Give your answer to this question below!

Tags: Acceptance, agencies, away, Card, Credit, government, massive, policies, their, violation

Comments

One Comment on How do government agencies get away with their massive violation of the credit card acceptance policies?

  1. ll on Sun, 24th Oct 2010 4:20 am

    2. Helllo, This is Cook Cty Illinois U R talking about. They’re crooks.