Merchants will pay $9.95 a month to be listed on the site.

"But I don't think we should expect the merchants to pay for the face lift," he said.

Merchants who try to save by not accepting any of the big three cards may pay in other ways.

Merchants only pay for this service, if and when students make a purchase with the discount.

And the prices they bid are sometimes far higher than what more well-known merchants will pay.

Come spring and the full revival of trade, though, merchants would pay triple for whatever space they could find.

Since the law requires merchants to pay the new higher tax for all their existing stock, everything had to be counted.

The typical merchant will now pay 85 cents to $1 on a $100 transaction.

"Then should you allow the merchants to pay less?"

I'm going to make those merchants pay their taxes in sweat.