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A New One on Us
Yahoo Message Number: 99142
Anyone run into the pre-paid laundry card at RV parks?

We're at Caliente Springs RV Resort in Desert Hot Springs and their laundry machines don't take quarters, but rather one must buy a pre-paid debit card for $5 (nonrefundable!!!) and then fill it with the $$ of choice which will then be used to activate each machine.

Anyone run into this in their travels?  It's new to me and in all honesty, has me really PO'd.
 I wouldn't recommend this park for other reasons. Anyone who wants to know can PM me and I'll elaborate (nothing libelous or scandalous).

TinaP 2006 MB "Wild Thing" Cold, wet and very gray in the Coachella Valley
2006 MB
Re: A New One on Us
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Yahoo Message Number: 99145
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Anyone run into the pre-paid laundry card at RV parks?

We're at Caliente Springs RV Resort in Desert Hot Springs and their laundry machines don't take quarters, but rather one must buy a pre-paid debit card for $5 (nonrefundable!!!) and then fill it with the $$ of choice which will then be used to activate each machine.
Camp Edison at Shaver Lake in CA's Sierras has the same cards--also to be used for your showers. I don't like them either and, I swear, the $$$ somehow disappear over time! Other than that, Edison is one of the nicest and most well-run campgrounds I've ever seen.

Jeanne Gearing
Re: A New One on Us
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Yahoo Message Number: 99156
"Anyone run into the pre-paid laundry card at RV parks?"

Tina
 We have run into the card thing at a couple of city laundromats, but there's always been an attendant with a "guest card".  We put however much on it and when we're done, give it back and they refund us whatever we haven't used.
 We hardly ever stay in RV parks, but when we have, I've never seen a setup like that.

Sounds like a ripoff to me!

Kate

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Re: A New One on Us
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Yahoo Message Number: 99157
And it's not just laundromats and showers.  Copy centers (Staples and FedX) are using them too.  I don't even see an advantage for the business owner.  To put two photocopies (for $.20?) on my debit card?  Makes no sense to me either!!  Humph!

Lorna
2003 RB
Re: A New One on Us
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Yahoo Message Number: 99168
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 16:46:11 -0700, Kate Klein kate@...> wrote these inspiring words:

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Sounds like a ripoff to me!
Most slots got away from coins some years back because coins are time consuming to handle and banks extract a charge for handling them.
The guest card seems reasonable.
 
Re: A New One on Us
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Yahoo Message Number: 99170
"Most slots got away from coins some years back because coins are time consuming to handle and banks extract a charge for handling them.
The guest card seems reasonable."

Dorothy,

While I see the reasoning at a casino where thousands of dollars go through hourly, they don't require you to purchase a card (nonrefundable!) and  will still take cash.
 I can hardly believe that an RV park has the same kind of volume as a casino, and could certainly (IMHO) still take your cash.  I understand that someone may have to service the machines, but I would hope that they were there daily to clean the machines anyway.

The idea that you have to start with $5.00 and that it is nonrefundable is a dealbreaker for me.  Imagine if the casinos would refuse to honor any of their vouchers under $5.00!

This is just my personal opinion, YMMV

Kate
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