Telus scraps 1.5% credit card surcharge on customer bills | CBC News

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/telus-credit-card-fee-1.6882341

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lightrush@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 3y (5 replies)

Well this is surprising. 🤔

Mistblown@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Surprising but good. I wonder what the legitimate reason for them scraping it was 🤔

lightrush@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 3y

Maybe an act of "good faith" they can use during the pushback against the incoming CRTC regulation. Probably not.

Nogami@lemmy.world · -22 pts · 3y

Probably too many people moving to alternate payment forms that cost them more to process, like sending in cheques, etc.

Personally, I just used a scheduled automatic bill payment from my bank and it was fine with no extra charge. I might put it back on the credit card now so I can get some points though.

AssaultPepper@kbin.social · 5 pts · 3y (1 reply)

I was kinda hoping we'd see the CRTC actually do something... although I'll take the benevolence of Telus I guess.

enragedchowder@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 3y

The CRTC is worse than useless, I would be genuinely shocked if they did anything to hurt the telecom oligopoly

jtsk2009@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 3y

To little to late. I left Telus because of this stupid money grab and will never go back to them.

sbv@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 3y

They would have gotten much more good will by lowering the bill for people who don't use credit cards. But no. Gotta be greedy.