I have to skim cash from the kids lunch monies. Glenn -----Original Message----- From: geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of GC-RGS Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 9:06 PM To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [GeoSTL] Re: credit card fees. But what about the cigars? ----- Original Message ----- From: Glenn Nash <mailto:GLNash@xxxxxxxxxx> To: St. Louis Geocachers Association <mailto:geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 8:54 PM Subject: [GeoSTL] credit card fees. A good point was raised, ?Why the odd amounts posted as contributions? well, I?ll tell ya. It has to do with how much I need to get a really good cigar and? ops, wrong answer? :-) Credit card fees. Anytime we use a C.Card anyplace to buy anything, it costs the merchant a fee. In our case, the fee is $0.30 + 2.9%. So lets figure a $20.00 donation gets 0.30+.58 = $.88 fee. I depoed, $19. then the .12 went to the web account sometime later mixed in somewhere else. And a $4.00 donation gets a fee of 0.30 + .12 = .42 for a donation of $3 something? Boooo I thought, till I was searching alternate services. A friend of mine has the Amazon.com service. I was all set to go with it till I saw their fees. $0.15 + 15%. Which adds up do a bunch more so I didn?t pursue it. Making donations from your bank account is free and not accessed any fees at all. So anyway, that?s the story. In case anybody was wondering where their extra bits of monies were going. Glenn AKA: the bean counter.