Comment on Every payment option has a fee

• Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  legal tender for all debts, public and private

  consumerfinance.gov/…/what-is-a-convenience-fee-o…

  They can charge fees, as long as there is an alternate way to pay without a fee. Usually it’s by check in the mail.

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  • kungen@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    it’s only legal if you agreed to the fee when you first took out the debt

    Which is most likely defined in their terms.

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  • Malyca@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Who cares about laws if no one will enforce them? No consumer protection, no more watch dogs, it’s all but legal now.

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    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      MAGA views anything you can get away with as legal.

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• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Now that they gotten us to accept a fee, sooner or later they’ll jack up the fee. It’s only $2 now, but in a few years, it will be $5, and then $10, and you better pay it if you want your lights to stay on.

  And politicians will help them do it by passing a law that the fee can’t by larger than the actual payment, or some helpful horseshit like that.

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