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Originally Posted by BavarianPretzel
So I went to pick up my car this morning after they finally finished “unbricking” it after the most recent OTA update. No charge because it’s still under warranty. However, I still had to pick up the paperwork and key fob from the cashier’s window.
While I waited for my paperwork to be retrieved, I noticed that they got a cool new credit card machine. It looked so high tech as if it belonged on a futuristic space ship.
However, what really caught my eye was a decal on the machine that said credit card transactions incur a 3.75% “convenience fee”
Never saw that before at this dealer. When I bought my car a couple of years ago, there was no extra convenience fee when I used my United Airlines credit card to pay for the $5000 down payment.
The cashier saw me looking at that and said “yeah, we have to charge that now because the price of everything is going up” I asked if that fee still applies if I get one of those BMW credit cards and she said “all credit cards”
Do other dealers do this now? Or more importantly, the other two BMW dealers around me… need to find out soon. ��
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Yes, mine does the same = Century BMW in Greenville, SC. Seems like it all began during C0v1d when inflation was 9-10%. So did the phenomena of tipping every Tom, Dick and Sally for doing their jobs. But now inflation is down around 2.6% in the USA and the "please tip me for doing my job" phenomena continues. I would like to be tipped for being retired. BMW Dealers are just recouping the transaction fees Visa and Mastercard charge them for access to the 'Swift' payment system - when really those fees are one of the costs of doing business; similar to their paying taxes. I rest my case. But instead now we're paying for them to take our money! The sooner people push back and start using cash again the sooner these add-on fees will go away. Seriously folks, dig out your cheque books.