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what's up with T-mobile removing autopay discount for credit cards?
I just literally signed up for a new plan - debit cards have fees for providers too - accessing my bank account isn’t a good approach from a security perspective (noting that T-mobile has been hacked...
That was announced months ago. It is because credit card companies charge a service charge that is based on the percentage of every transaction, which eats into T-Mobile's revenue. Removing the auto pay discount for credit cards negates that.
Since I am no more willing to hand any of the others a debit card or bank account information, it’s a moot point how many times they were all hacked.
What is a point is the one I was making - without the discount, T-Mobile is no longer price competitive with AT&T, and AT&T has better data limits for the same price. I've no idea WRT Verizon.
“Everybody blows” isn’t really a good marketing position either.
And, as I said, after three strikes, deciding on a policy that puts me at greater risk in the next round of data breaches is an even worse one.
Claiming that the 3% charge justifies what is basically a 14% price increase is also a turnoff.
So feel free to address those points. Rather than complain that I'm picking on T-Mobile as if it were the only offender. I wasn't.
