RE: Surcharge Paypal users

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Straight from the horses mouth.

[quote]
Thank you for your inquiry to MasterCard International.

A surcharge cannot be added to the price of goods or services that you
purchase on your MasterCard card.  To report a merchant in violation,
please visit our website at <url snipped>

The situation in the United Kingdom is different however, in that English
law allows merchants to surcharge.  Because we can not supersede local
laws, merchants surcharging in the United Kingdom are not in violation of
our guidelines.

Best regards,

MasterCard International
Customer Service Center
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So it appears that a UK based trader *can* surcharge.  Whether he would want to or not is debatable, but this is good news as we in the UK (and Europe) often do not get as good deals as US based traders...

Interesting, eh ?  Time to update all of the scripts to allow UK based shops to add on a surcharge then ?