Re: Re: Priceline Gasoline and Groceries discontinued

From: Hemipower@aol.com
Date: Thu Oct 05 2000 - 19:19:51 EDT


In a message dated 10/05/2000 5:21:46 PM EST, thumper72@lvcm.com writes:

<< The major oil companies (Texaco, Chevron, Etc.) were threatening Priceline
 with lawsuits. Priceline made their cards available to use at certain
 stations without permission of those stations and then proceeded to charge
 those staions a "transaction fee" everytime a Priceline card was used. I
 saw my station (that I manage) listed and played hell with them trying to
 get it taken off the list. I was all for the Priceline card until I saw a
 near thousand dollar charge for "transaction fees" on our monthly statement.
 
 Bill Boggs >>
P. S since I never jumped on the bandwagon I don't know how they work.
Did you have to run it through the M/C machine? If so, could those
carrier companies be guilty of collusion? Will we hear more, or will
the suits sweep it under the carpet with no charges ever being filed?



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