Maybe my memory is faulty, but I never remembered having to pay a surcharge to use a credit card. Now everywhere I go there are signs saying that there is a 2.5-3.5% surcharge to use a car (and others that say that there’s a 2.5-3.5% discount for using cash, I assume to get around wording)

  • ramble81@lemmy.zipOP
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    18 hours ago

    Even worse. We have what’s called MSRP (Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price) and the “Suggested” part does a lot of heavy lifting. Two crazy examples

    • Car dealers will add a “dealer markup” sometimes in the tens of thousands range above MSRP if a car is in demand
    • Nintendo actually threatened to pull their products from Amazon (I think) because they dared to go under the suggested price (more like mandatory)

    Basically it’s a free for all where the consumer is saddled with trying to find the best deal, if there is one.