The transaction fee (also known as the discount fee) is the commission charged to merchants as a percentage of the dollar value of transaction on American Express cards.

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Short-time fee-discount offers create a stampede in the door.

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Once the agency is able to set its own fees, micro-entities can also receive the 75 percent discount on this fee.

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The Quadrangle affiliate ultimately agreed to make and distribute the DVD at a discount from its standard fee.

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The company will ask neither for a fee nor equity, only for a discount for its clients.

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But the fee is offset by a 5-percent discount on purchases, and about half the town participates.

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The USPTO has also published for review a proposed fee schedule that will expand an existing 50 percent discount on patent application fees for small entities.

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When investors buy or sell mutual funds through discount brokerage firms' "no transaction fee" marketplaces, part of the funds' expense charges are going to compensate the brokerage firms.

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CUC, of Stamford, Connecticut, is a big direct-marketer, selling discount goods, travel and financial services to its 68m fee-paying club members.

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Bank of America ( BAC - news - people ) aims its bank- card pitch at employers who buy them in bulk as staff gifts. (BofA declined to comment on whether employers receive a discount rate for buying scads of cards at a time.) There's no dormancy fee with BofA's product, but after nine months the cards become worthless, whatever the remaining balance is.

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