Today I discovered it'll cost ya to give someone a bus ticket. And not just the price of the fare.
There will be an extra fee for your generosity, if you charge someone else's ticket on your credit card.
The Gift Ticket Fee.* If the traveler is NOT the card holder, the card holder gets to pay that fee too, on top of the fare.
My round trip = 250 miles each way.
Total cost $58, advance purchase.
Except for that Gift Fee. That'll be ANOTHER $18, please.
My witty friend Lynn says it's highway robbery. Whoa! Yes, exactly where the stick-up happens.
People who take the bus are largely poor, rural, or otherwise disadvantaged. Perhaps they have no alternative but travel by bus, no other way to get from here to there.
Bad dog, Greyhound! For sticking it to your captive customers.
*From the link to the fine-print details:A non-refundable gift ticket fee is applied to each Will Call transaction where the credit card holder purchasing tickets is not traveling on that trip.
I wish they'd use some of that gift ticket fare money to spruce up a few of the bus stations I've had the misfortune to wait in.
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