• titanicx@lemmy.zip
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      I’m sure this is the US. And this is the first time I’ve heard of it in 35 years of renting.

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        Insurers do this to doctors, too. They take a large “convenience fee” for electronic payment to the doctor. And they have no option to get physical checks. The relevant US regulatory agency briefly declared it illegal, but was convinced by lobbying their rule wouldn’t hold up against a lawsuit, so they withdrew it. And Congress doesn’t care to make the law more clear.

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        It’s in canada also. My gf had to pay a rental payment fee for the system they use. Same with enwin utilities in ontario. They just installed a new tax for no reason.

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          Oh it’s for a reason, and that reason is “capitalism”.

          Their investors want not just profits but profit growth. So companies have to come up with new avenues of extracting money from their consumers. It’s a fundamental feature of the capitalist system.

          And so long as they have private ownership over these things, there is about jack all we can do to stop them.