Card Firms Loss Tally: Billions of Dollars in Fees


	Card Firms Loss Tally: Billions of Dollars in Fees

disenchantedcitizen

5-22-2009 10:23 AM

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disenchantedcitizen says:

You can bet everyone else's card fees are going up because these companies don't want to lose that income they have gotten used to.

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