Develop "battery stations". Or, make it an added service at existing gasoline-stations. People drive their electric cars into the station, and an attendant replaces in a few minutes the depleted battery with a fully charged battery which someone else exchanged more than a few hours earlier. If labour cost is 60$ per hour, and it took the person 5 minutes to swap the battery, then you have a full "tank" of fuel for 5$.
It is illegal in some U.S. States to charge more for a product or service if the buyer is using a credit card. Also, it is a violation of the merchant agreement with Visa, MasterCard, and American Express. This policy at Verizon is essentially a surcharge for payment via credit card. If one uses cash (cheque by mail, or ACH bank transfer), then there is no fee.
If one pays with credit card, then there is a "convenience fee" (surcharge). I suppose that their legal department could argue that they provide the Auto-Pay option for credit-card users to avoid the surcharge, but it remains debatable.
It certainly is not customer friendly. A more friendly way to cover their credit-card fees is to make the higher rate the standard price, and provide a discount for cash payments (cheques and ACH).
Why would anyone want to track the world's largest people? Oh, wait... maybe if we place a hyphen in there, it would make sense. Here is goes: "China to Deploy World's Largest People-Tracking Network".
The owners of the shopping carts install these devices to keep the buggies from leaving the store or parking lot. This method of clamping the wheels is a negative approach; punishing those who stray with the carts. A more positive system is used in The Netherlands. Shoppers in Dutch supermarkets must insert a quarter in to the cart lock to release it from the cluster of other carts. If they want their quarter back, then they must return the cart to the cart rack. Sure, some may scoff at the quarter, but the procedure seems to work in Holland; citizens dutifully return the carts to the store after use. Maybe in the States, a dollar coin could be used as enticement. Perhaps dangling a carrot (money) in front of patrons is better then beating them with a stick (wheel clamp).
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Develop "battery stations". Or, make it an added service at existing gasoline-stations. People drive their electric cars into the station, and an attendant replaces in a few minutes the depleted battery with a fully charged battery which someone else exchanged more than a few hours earlier. If labour cost is 60$ per hour, and it took the person 5 minutes to swap the battery, then you have a full "tank" of fuel for 5$.
It was the city of Atlantis returning to Earth from the Pegasus galaxy.
It is illegal in some U.S. States to charge more for a product or service if the buyer is using a credit card. Also, it is a violation of the merchant agreement with Visa, MasterCard, and American Express. This policy at Verizon is essentially a surcharge for payment via credit card. If one uses cash (cheque by mail, or ACH bank transfer), then there is no fee.
If one pays with credit card, then there is a "convenience fee" (surcharge). I suppose that their legal department could argue that they provide the Auto-Pay option for credit-card users to avoid the surcharge, but it remains debatable.
It certainly is not customer friendly. A more friendly way to cover their credit-card fees is to make the higher rate the standard price, and provide a discount for cash payments (cheques and ACH).
If Apple had a similar product, it might be called the iEye, requiring iSurgery to install.
Text is a noun, not a verb.
Why would anyone want to track the world's largest people? Oh, wait... maybe if we place a hyphen in there, it would make sense. Here is goes: "China to Deploy World's Largest People-Tracking Network".
The owners of the shopping carts install these devices to keep the buggies from leaving the store or parking lot. This method of clamping the wheels is a negative approach; punishing those who stray with the carts. A more positive system is used in The Netherlands. Shoppers in Dutch supermarkets must insert a quarter in to the cart lock to release it from the cluster of other carts. If they want their quarter back, then they must return the cart to the cart rack. Sure, some may scoff at the quarter, but the procedure seems to work in Holland; citizens dutifully return the carts to the store after use. Maybe in the States, a dollar coin could be used as enticement. Perhaps dangling a carrot (money) in front of patrons is better then beating them with a stick (wheel clamp).