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If the 250 isnt mandatory, yet every processor has the exact same fee, and even announced the fee in a joint e-mail, isnt that illegal?
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Even a hint of price fixing is investigated by the FTC. It is extremely serious stuff. Many people are still serving prison terms for price fixing. If 3 processors got together at a meeting and one guy said "I don't know about you guys, but we are going to have to charge 200$ extra fee" then this would be price fixing. Whenever a group of businesses get together and discuss thier prices, this is considered price fixing. If Mcdonalds called up Burger King and said "On May 1st we are going to change our 99 cents menu to 1.99$" then they just attempted to fix the price and off to jail they will go.