Card charging fee

unholyangel

Just to add that the upshot of this may be that they stop accepting cards rather than you being able to pay by card at no extra cost.

Taxis unfortunately don't have the option of adjusting their prices to work card fees into them.

agrinnall

unholyangel wrote: »

Just to add that the upshot of this may be that they stop accepting cards rather than you being able to pay by card at no extra cost.

Taxis unfortunately don't have the option of adjusting their prices to work card fees into them.

While your first point is a distinct possibility, it's clear that in the case the taxi has found a way in which a fee for card payment can be applied, so it should be possible to apply such a fee using the same method to all payment types if that's the road they want to go down. Whether their local authority licence would allow them to do so is another question.

unholyangel

agrinnall wrote: »

While your first point is a distinct possibility, it's clear that in the case the taxi has found a way in which a fee for card payment can be applied, so it should be possible to apply such a fee using the same method to all payment types if that's the road they want to go down. Whether their local authority licence would allow them to do so is another question.

It doesnt, thats my point. They can't charge more than the tariff set by the licensing council.

agrinnall

unholyangel wrote: »

It doesnt, thats my point. They can't charge more than the tariff set by the licensing council.

So their current card fee is invalid/illegal in two ways rather than just one. Which I guess is another route to complain by reporting them to the LA.

unholyangel

agrinnall wrote: »

So their current card fee is invalid/illegal in two ways rather than just one. Which I guess is another route to complain by reporting them to the LA.

Not exactly.

According to the council rules, they can't charge more for the fare itself but the council rules don't prohibit them from charging a surcharge for paying by card (which they can't do due to the payment surcharges regulations).

According to the payment surcharges regulations, they can't charge more for paying by card but the regulations don't prohibit traders from passing those costs on to customers, just it must be built into the base price (which they can't do because of the council rules).

I suppose its a catch 22 situation.

DoaM

agrinnall wrote: »

Apart from the first 5 words this is wrong,

When did you get your degree in diplomacy?

agrinnall

DoaM wrote: »

When did you get your degree in diplomacy?

I could have just said the whole post was wrong, at least I credited you with getting the first bit right . I think I was a bit surprised that someone who is generally very knowledgable was so far out on this.