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Credit and debit card fees need to be banned. At least below a certain amount on the purchase.

My pastry chef only takes cash.
What a ****in pain in the ass it is.
His pantries, cakes are so good, I have to put up with it.
Easier to cheat on taxes that way
 
Pretty sure it's illegal to charge more than 5% of the total and they have to have it posted or tell you before they do it.
 

Use cash, problem solved and you do not need to involve the government.
 
I don't see it with business run by people who are Native American speakers (or nearly as much)
Yea, they probably do launder money if they can collect in cash instead.

I see it in every business I go in, no matter who is running it.

A lot are starting to give "discounts" if you pay in cash.

I moved recently and we had plantation shutters custom made for our windows, the place that did it had a discount if you paid in cash/check vice using a card. The moving company we used had the same thing.

We took advantage of both.
 

Yeah, thats the general point of business, to make a profit. Pay cash if you dont like it. Start your own store and pay customers fees yourself. If your suggesting govt do price controls, then NO. Thats not their job.
 
Pretty sure it's illegal to charge more than 5% of the total and they have to have it posted or tell you before they do it.
That's the point. They constantly do this. And they may tell you the fee but often for small purchases it is more than 5%
 
...except that's how the CC company sets its fees.

It's typically "2% or 50 cents, whichever is larger."

It seems to me that when they get payments in cash, it's a way for them to money launder.


What nonsense is this? They can't just refuse to report a purchase because it was made in cash. Where are you shopping? "Joe's Back Alley Black Market"?
 
Why not just pay cash and save that money? Too lazy?
 
Got a link for that? If it is I guess I will take back what I said (thought it was just 2%, no or higher).
 
Was just in Door County, WI, and most places charged an extra 3% if you used a credit or debit card.

I think that used to be not allowed, but I guess it’s ok now.
 
Was just in Door County, WI, and most places charged an extra 3% if you used a credit or debit card.

I think that used to be not allowed, but I guess it’s ok now.

Before they just added it to their prices and everyone paid it whether you paid cash or not.

I prefer them giving people a choice.

We saved a good amount between moving and having shutters made and installed just by getting a "cash discount"
 
No one carries cash anymore.
Its silly too in fact.

The credit , debit card fees are simply built into the cost of the products for the most part.

Plenty of people carry cash.

You make some really odd statements with absolute certainty that just... no... you're wrong.
 
Plenty of people carry cash.

You make some really odd statements with absolute certainty that just... no... you're wrong.

Maybe its just because I am from the progressive northeast.
I can't speak to deplorable areas that never progress.

No one carries cash.
 
Maybe its just because I am from the progressive northeast.
I can't speak to deplorable areas that never progress.

No one carries cash.
How pretentious. Those are the areas that are among the ones with "Must accept cash" laws: New Jersey, Connecticut, Philadelphia along with many others considering such laws along with Congress.
 
Maybe its just because I am from the progressive northeast.
I can't speak to deplorable areas that never progress.

No one carries cash.

I live in a deplorable area, do I? Did you even bother to look at my location?

I always carry cash. I always see other people paying in cash. I don't know wtf you're talking about. And while I won't give my exact location because reasons, I will say I live between 2 and 30 miles northeast by north of Boston. Nice neighborhood. And people carry cash.

A lot of your views are so damned ... weirdly damned closed-minded.
 

No one carries cash anymore

it is what it is

don't bust a gasket

peace
 
No one carries cash anymore

it is what it is

don't bust a gasket

peace
You wont be eating at some of the best food joints in town, as I told you before.

Example:

Want the best pizza in the world? You aint getting it without cash.

 

Lol

God bless

Pizzerias are the best food "joints" in town.
We are from two different worlds.
 
But there is one in the top 50, which is the list you posted.

Rotflamo! And they take credit/debt cards.

I win!

No one carries cash anymore especially young people.
 
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