Power company recently outsourced their payment system and now have to pay a fuckin’ fee to pay my goddamned bill. The only way to avoid that is autopay.
Further infuriating is I have to re-add my bank info to yet another third party system.
Fuck the modern world, man.
Having a fee of some sort based on payment option is probably desirable. They get charged those fees.
If they don’t expose the fee to you, they still charge the fee, or at least an average that covers their costs across all users, but it gets buried in a single price charged to all users, so you can’t choose whether or not to pay it.
Otherwise, the guys paying via their bank are subsidizing the guys paying via credit cards, even though they aren’t incurring the cost.
Except that this is a recent change so the cost is added onto the bill that must have surely covered said cost before.
Oh shush. We don’t want to learn how the world works or how to effectively navigate it. We just want everyone to give us free shit while not having jobs.
Seriously, I can go on for ages about how to manipulate capitalistic systems for our own benefit. Nope. “Kill the capitalists!” OK. Then a system by another name will abuse you instead.
While we’re at it, if you’re not a business with special banking needs, why is anyone using a filthy bank?! Credit unions are the dictionary definition of socialism.