Does your DZ charge a different amount if you use credit cards?

[PhreeZone 15]

Just wondering how DZ's are dealing with the ever increasing fees that Credit Card companies are charging merchants to use their credit card.

How many DZ's pass the charge on directly to the jumper?

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[StearmanR985 0]

I voted 'other'

Bill charges us a buck per charge over here for card use. Doesn't matter if it is for one ticket or 50 tickets, its a buck extra to use a card. Seems quite reasonable to me.

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[SeaKev 0]

Yup. 3% for the CC and $.50 per trans if you go the debit route.

[diablopilot 2]

Our DZ offers a "cash discount".

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[headoverheels 292]

I think that Tandems get about $5 added if they use credit. I alway write a check for blocks, or pay cash for singles, so I don't know about that.

[Daizey 0]

My DZ offers a "cash discount" as well....this goes for everything...

tandems, and first jump course (including ground school, and 1 tandem and an IAD) are $10 cheaper if you pay in cash..
aff is $6 cheaper
Video/Stills are $5 cheaper
IAD's are $4 cheaper
jump tickets are $1 cheaper

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[GravityGirl 0]

We offer a cash discount.

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The Ranch---Same price, cash or credit---$16.50

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Yup. 3% for the CC and $.50 per trans if you go the debit route.

Yup..

[grega 0]

I don't think we can pay with credit cards here

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Yup. 3% for the CC and $.50 per trans if you go the debit route.

Ditto, but read pence for cents

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[EricaH 0]

Well, it's illegal for vendors to charge a Credit Card usage fee, so my dz offers a "cash discount" I'm sure that's why so many others do the same.

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Other for us.

You get 10% extra in your account if you put in $1000 cach or debit card.

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[Ncrowe 0]

Deland charges a 5% creit crad usage fee and thats what they pretty much call it

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Well, it's illegal for vendors to charge a Credit Card usage fee, so my dz offers a "cash discount" I'm sure that's why so many others do the same.

Yes quite.


As for using your CC at the DZ in the "debit" mode. You should keep in mind that many banks charge a usage fee for using the debit side of your card. This is one of the big things the place I worked for made money on. Its clearly stated in some pamphlet that they gave to all new card holders, but no one ever reads it. So people would complain about the usage fees and we wouldn't do much other than to say use the Credit side of it.

If you have to punch your pin your running the risk of paying an out of network transaction fee. The best way to save the DZ money or save yourself money is to hit a ATM that is affiliated with your bank before you get to the DZ.


My DZ offers no cash discount but its something that they were thinking about doing because the cost of CC transactions is crazy.


Though I have made a good 100 purchases on my card for under 5 dollars at random stores throughout the midwest. They have to hate that.

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Well, it's illegal for vendors to charge a Credit Card usage fee, so my dz offers a "cash discount" I'm sure that's why so many others do the same.

They also consider the cash discount a fee for using the credit card. It's the same thing, just packaged differently. If one were to call Visa/MC and complain, they'd still get their account yanked for charging a fee for CC use.

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Well, it's illegal for vendors to charge a Credit Card usage fee, so my dz offers a "cash discount" I'm sure that's why so many others do the same.

That it is. You can bet though that as soon as someone turns in their local DZ that the tickets you could get for $17.50-cash will now be $18.00 cash or credit.

DZs operate on such slim profit margins that it doesn't bother me to get hit up with the additional charge, so long as that charge is not an unreasonable one.

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[EricaH 0]

Oh, no, I'm not complaining @ all!!
I totally understand their need. Sometimes I feel like one of few people @ my dz that understand that it is a business - the dzo's deserve to earn money just as much as I do.

I pay by CC & it would really suck for the people able to pay cash if someone turned them in.

It wouldn't positively affect the cost of my tickets, so I wouldn't to that to other people.

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[sweep 0]

My DZ charges a fee for CCs, though I was manifesting a 35-tandem day on Saturday and was starting to consider a cash handling fee for them.
I'd never heard a rule against CC charges in the UK before : is that a US consumer law thing or a Visa/Mastercard contractual thing? When the DZ is getting hit for the charges it seems unfair to have to pass that on evenly to everyone including the cash payers...

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Definately a MC/Visa thing and in many, maybe all, states a state law as well.

The CC companies see it as discouraging the use of the card and the states see it as an abuse of the customer.

Credit cards are part of the cost of doing business and the DZ needs to figure it into the pricing. Worst case (5% + 25 cents) it adds about a $1.00 to the cost of jump at the prices I pay. If half the people pay cash and half credit cards then it would be fifty cents to every ticket.

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[VectorBoy 0]

If one were to call Visa/MC and complain, they'd still get their account yanked for charging a fee for CC use.

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I doubt the CC would turn their nose at all that bothersome profit. After all its them whom gouged first remember?

True, but the merchant agreement should clearly state that the merchant is not allowed to pass the fee on to the consumer as a 'service' charge.

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I doubt the CC would turn their nose at all that bothersome profit. After all its them whom gouged first remember?

Gouged? They've got as much as anyone, or any business, to make a profit. Right? Remember, it was the merchant that agreed to abide by their rules. Most simply add in the additional cost to their wares, I appreciate that the DZ offers me the chance to save a few dollars by using cash.

I'm not going to take the time to read the merchant agreement, but I do believe that some merchants are exempt from the "thou shall not pass on the charges" rule.

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Definately a MC/Visa thing and in many, maybe all, states a state law as well.

The CC companies see it as discouraging the use of the card and the states see it as an abuse of the customer.

Credit cards are part of the cost of doing business and the DZ needs to figure it into the pricing. Worst case (5% + 25 cents) it adds about a $1.00 to the cost of jump at the prices I pay. If half the people pay cash and half credit cards then it would be fifty cents to every ticket.

In other words, the people who pay cash are subsidizing the jumps of the credit card users.

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[EDYDO 0]

It is a violation of every merchant agreement that I have ever seen to add a fee if one uses a credit card or to discount if they do not. I am not aware of any law in my state that would forbid such a practice.

With that said, the credit card companies do not care what the merchant does since I am aware of complaints and nothing was ever done about it.

Ed