If cash is king, how can stores refuse to take your dollars?
I'm not sure I'd do business with a concern that wouldn't take my cash.
I've own several business and often made cash deals. Cash was king for me...credit was costly. Being small made it difficult to compete while paying credit card fee's.
What do you think...cash, credit or both.
I've own several business and often made cash deals. Cash was king for me...credit was costly. Being small made it difficult to compete while paying credit card fee's.
What do you think...cash, credit or both.
Is this any different from stores that do not take credit cards and only take cash or check?
This is why businesses such as check-cashing and money-order services are not going to go away, even though attacked by the likes of Operation Choke Point. Or banned.
I not saying that I prefer cash particularly because is not traceable, to the contrary, I just find it more convenient and I don't have to keep track of it...it's apparent by what's left in my wallet and not in my bank statement...less work for me, simple stupid.
If I was adament on using my cash to make a purchase and a place of business would not take my cash, I would find one that did. I believe every business reserves the right to operate the way they feel fit, amd every customer has the right to walk.
However, we might find in the future that government and banks may outlaw cash transactions or at least make it as difficult as possible...what ever the reason, it can come to no good,
I would end up not making these purchases, period. Then the only shopping I'd do would be groceries and on line...so these local stores would just wither away from history.
When I think of mumbling I remember the Sony and Cher show's commercial break were a small plane is flying around his head, he is mumbling and all you can make out is he got the propeller stuck up his nose.
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Hope things got or at least get, better for you John.
she didn't ... then a 15 year gap, and now 19 years
with Ms right, but still no kids. . anniversary next
thursday, our 15th, since we went steady for four
years before marriage. . last saw my first wife in a
store about 12 years ago and caught myself when
I reached up and pulled her long hair out of her
right eye. . like I used to. . the love never died. -- j
p.s. divorced when I was 37 and she was 33. . and
good luck with your book!
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Funny, I divorced at 37 also, and a younger woman too. Interesting connections I've made here at the Gulch.
was 4 years younger. . life just happened that way. -- j
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stayed out of the sun and worked in the medical business
for 28-plus years, so she's like that too! -- j
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Don't know why I'm still laughing...
sailboats are wonderful for that!!! -- j
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PS...below deck was awesome...a few times...above deck too!
fourteen feet, though! . such fun! -- j
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we should sell it....... -- j
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I've been thinking lately that if we have a fake recovery and my house goes up enough in value to where I could sell it with a sufficient amount of profit...I'd buy another large sailing yacht and just travel from place to place avoiding as much bull crap as I could.
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Laughing, there was a post about a poor guy in some south american country that did that...it's his own country, and he can move it anywhere he wants.
over collection of the bottles! . we could arrange them
in the pattern of Rand's initials, AR. . the dollar sign
has become too tainted, I fear. -- j
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only to get foreign aid for rebuilding ... more $$$ ! -- j
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And if you go to the bank with cash, you have to have your ID to make a deposit. I told the teller to just accept ANYONE's money who wants to put it into MY account ... don't slow them down!
The concern about being tracked via electronic transactions is completely valid - but it is a separate topic. (We need to be concerned about being physically tracked via our phones and likewise tracked via video cams as well. This is a topic about surveillance in general, not really about money.)
Do you remember the over-the-top reaction to grocery stores introducing scanning of barcodes instead of people entering the items manually? This was an endoftheworld topic for a while; now it is a trivial fact of life. I think that electronic transactions are in the same category of reaction: This is not 'the way it used to be'.
Change happens. And now it happens all the time, not every 10th generation.
Jan
Don't remember the reaction with bar codes.
What people don't realize is that 666 is not a physical mark it's about mindset and behavior...not to mention alignments with evil ideologies.
And the standardized unit is needed whether you are dealing with cash or virtual money (though not so much with metals).
Jan
We, as consumers, are going to have to use whatever works for a given instance.
The other comments are fairly correct. sticky fingers being one of tghe problems. What is peculair is refusing debit which is instant payment and does not have the protection level of credit purchases for the consumer. With credit the credit company is responsible for collecting from the purchaser. Car rentals routinely requie credit to cover costs of damages beyond the level of the insurance but with no damage routinely switch to your offer of a debit card as it is instant payment in full. But ask your self this. Do you trust US Currency?
Personally, I think businesses should have the right to do business however they wish. Credit may be expensive and you may be locking out some customers but you save time and money not having to go to the bank. The other thing since you business stores are cashless you reduce the risk of being robbed. All of which is good.