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[Nonametoday]

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@Tinkrbl44 wrote:

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@Nonametoday wrote:

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@Love to Run wrote:

There are more businesses in my area that don't take checks than those who charge more for electronic payments. There is one fish market we use that takes cash only, but if I had to pay more to use an electronic payment I would shop elsewhere. Particularly for large ticket items because I choose to use the consumer protections offered with a credit card. We would never pay cash or check for a major purchase, if something goes wrong we would have little recourse.

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@Love to Run 

We would never pay cash or check for a major purchase, if something goes wrong we would have little recourse.  

And that's the problem with big corporations, i.e., Walmart, Home Depot, Lowe's, Publix, Safeway, mercantile department stores, etc., running the little guy (Mom & Pop stoes) out of business.  We had a recourse when it was Mom & Pop. They lived across town.  Their kids went to school with ours.  They knew us.  They knew when we bought something if we returned it, it was because it was an invalid purchase.  We don't have that any longer and the reason we have to be guaranteed to use a credit card for that validity.  Just like on-line business whereby one has to jump through hoops or go through mazes to return something and we don't get our postage back or part of our puchase price is deducted or we are charged an upcharge for everything...now with cell phones and shopping internationally, we don't know our neighbors.  Our children don't know our neighbors' children, we don't know our pastor.  He is part of a big mega church.  We have funerals where the dead bury the dead.

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@Nonametoday 

You must have lived in a VERY small town.   

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@Tinkrbl44 

35,000

[Tinkrbl44]

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@Trailrun23 wrote:

None of the hair stylists I have been to in years have not taken anything but cash. Nice little way to avoid taxes as well as the fee the salon owners are now charging in addition to rent.

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@Trailrun23 

LOTS of self-employed people give discounts for cash.  Why pay an extra 5% out of your pocket for a credit card?   This is nothing new.