DEBIT / CREDIT Card Transaction Fee being COLLECTED without CONSENT
Just discovered that some merchants (luckily NOT ALL), without informing us, still COLLECT from us, albeit surreptitiously,
Card Transaction Fee.
This is inspite of RBI's warning not to do so thru Notification circulars ::
DBS.CO.PPD No. 17882/11.01.005/2012-13 dated June 19, 2013 & follow Up circular
RBI/2013-14/292 DBS.CO.PPD No. 3578 /11.01.005/2013-
The discovery of their modus operandi came to light when I visited the bank asking them how they have debited “TIPS" for a Petrol Bill and that too after a few days.
TIPS is normally ADDED BY US while paying Restaurant Bills. The Bank said the Merchant takes our signature on their copy - which shows us the bill and subsequently ADDs by himself in the TIPS row which - incidentally - does not exist in our portion of the slip. The Bank is - obviously - obligated to follow our “instruction” to pay, having signed the slip.
The only way to avoid this is to write NIL in this TIPS SPACE of the MERCHANT's COPY of the signature slip. more