• hydrospanner@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    There’s no justification from a pure convenience standpoint, but I could respect the pettiness if the electric company ran their shit like one local government office in my hometown, where there was this small annual fee they charged like $9 for…but then to pay it, you could either mail in a check, hand deliver cash or check or card…or pay online…where they added a $5 “convenience fee” to a sub-$10 payment.

    You bet your ass that I paid that shit in person every year, in loose change, and requested a receipt (which they had to write up manually because they didn’t have a system to process and print one).

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      3 months ago

      I live by this philosophy

      If you charge me more to make both our lives easier, I will make both our lives harder out of spite.

      It will cost you more than the fee you tried to squeeze out of me, and I will have spent nothing.

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      3 months ago

      My city’s water bill went from a free online portal to a shittier one with a fee. I pay it by check now out of pettiness.

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      3 months ago

      No fee for the portal. His only justification was it is some human interaction, which is fine. Just feels like a boomer mentality.

      Hell, you can even pay through a check via the banks online portal. Dude doesn’t have a cell phone and never has.