Money & Economics

Don't you just love semantics? Just got a postcard from DTE (Detroit Edison). All customers on auto-pay will be unenrolled on February 27. To continue on autopay, you need to re-enroll after March 2, agreeing to pay the card processing fee (which DTE has eaten forever). Here are where the semantics come into play. "Processing fees do no benefit DTE and are paid directly to the payment processor". Now let me see... I pay more while DTE keeps more. Hmmm...
 
To continue on autopay, you need to re-enroll after March 2, agreeing to pay the card processing fee (which DTE has eaten forever).

If they want to charge a fee for cc payments, what can you do, but what's the excuse for charging the fee for debit card payments?


DTE will soon begin tacking on credit card fee to utility bill payments

"One of Michigan’s largest utilities will soon start tacking on a fee when customers pay gas and electric bills with credit or debit cards."