Lamar Credit Card Issue

[TexasTerror]

Not sure what this is about, but did not see a thread here. One of our KatFans posted that "Lamar University will start charging 2% of the total payment or $3, whichever is higher, on payments to student's University account."

http://www.katfans.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10699

[Guest coachacola]

It's on the Lamar.edu website:

[quote]The convenience fee is intended to allow Lamar to recover the direct costs charged to the university by the credit card companies. The university’s cost for accepting credit cards had grown to more than $400,000 a year[/quote].

[quote]Many other universities have begun charging fees for the convenience of using credit cards, including campuses of the University of Texas System and the Texas A&M System. Lamar University students will not be assessed a convenience fee on payments made by cash, check or debit card. Students also can avoid a convenience fee by taking advantage of a new electronic check option. The fee will not apply to payments made with a university-issued Cardinal One card, which is used for student refunds and can be used as a debit card.[/quote]

There are many options to pay for school without having to use a credit card.

http://www.lamar.edu/newsevents/news/207_8192.htm

[Guest mffl]

[quote name="TexasTerror" post="726077" timestamp="1260242056"]
Not sure what this is about, but did not see a thread here. One of our KatFans posted that "Lamar University will start charging 2% of the total payment or $3, whichever is higher, on payments to student's University account."

http://www.katfans.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10699
[/quote]

There just changing up the system... the "credit card" is our lamar ID card also, I have no financial ties to the card. Only use it for ID purposes.