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Don't the credit card companies require that a business accepting them not offer a cash discount?

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I believe that was changed. Not certain for sure.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:

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Don't the credit card companies require that a business accepting them not offer a cash discount?

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I believe that was changed. Not certain for sure.

My understanding is they can offer a cash discount. They can't offer a credit card fee. Six of one, half dozen of the other, but that's how I understand it. Our LGS has the cash price and the credit price.

Actually they write this first thing specifically on their gun pages...

https://fsguns.com/new-hand-guns/

You guys are talking about banning cash... that's a totally different scenario. Nobody is banning cash. Some businesses dont want to use it. They should be allowed to do so.

As has been pointed out, government services don't accept cash

I am very confused by all of this. Suppose I go into a restaurant and order and eat a big dinner. Waiter brings me the bill. I pull out cash, he says they don't take cash. I say cash is all that I have. What happens next? I would never knowingly patronize a business that would not accept cash.

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Originally posted by flashguy:

Don't the credit card companies require that a business accepting them not offer a cash discount?

No.

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Originally posted by frayedends:

My understanding is they can offer a cash discount. They can't offer a credit card fee.

No longer true.

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I am very confused by all of this. Suppose I go into a restaurant and order and eat a big dinner. Waiter brings me the bill. I pull out cash, he says they don't take cash. I say cash is all that I have. What happens next? I would never knowingly patronize a business that would not accept cash.

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If I were at the next table, I would take your cash and put it on my card.

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Philadelphia City Council pulled the same crap like two years ago,

My former jurisdiction back in NJ did that over a decade ago. Cash was no longer an accepted form of payment of the municipal real estate tax. If was put in place when it was learned that the tax collector was skimming a few hundred thousand off the top and spending it on drugs and some far out in left field porn sites.

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Suspended Sxxxxxx tax collector accused of stealing $780,000 sent money to dominatrix Tara Juliana, prosecutors say

What made it really comical was the fact several audits missed the missing funds that took place over a year or so.

Even screwed his own friends ..

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but the town's tax collector for nearly 25 years had already been indicted for allegedly stealing nearly $25,000 from a town municipal employees union.

Loved the excuse...

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XXXXXXX’s attorney, Milagros Camacho, said he borrowed the money and had intended to pay it back

Sure he was.....

True to NJ standards, the person in charge of the audits was given a promotion.

F*CK the people in NYC. I for one don't give a SH*T about those people or their city!

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Originally posted by Cousin Vinnie:
F*CK the people in NYC. I for one don't give a SH*T about those people or their city!

Wow, that seems kinda rude.
Based on their anti freedom laws, I have no desire to visit, but I don’t any bad feelings toward the people there.
Maybe you should go watch some video of lobby day or read that thread for a positive vibe.

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Originally posted by Ironworker:
I am very confused by all of this. Suppose I go into a restaurant and order and eat a big dinner. Waiter brings me the bill. I pull out cash, he says they don't take cash. I say cash is all that I have. What happens next? I would never knowingly patronize a business that would not accept cash.

I too would never patronize a place that doesn't accept cash. I understand the CC only thing for certain things, like in-flight food, etc. But cash is our primary medium of exchange when it comes to paying for items.

How far can this go then. Could a store be forced to accept cash, but say exact change only?

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When I was a kid it was exact change ONLY for the city buses in Chicago. It made sense in terms of time management. The driver did not make change.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:

When I was a kid it was exact change ONLY for the city buses in Chicago. It made sense in terms of time management. The driver did not make change.

I was involved in a joint project, engineers from AT&T and Olivetti.

Prior to the arrival of the Olivetti engineers from Italy, everyone in our department attended Italian language classes.

In one of the role-playing scripts that the Italian language instructor assigned to us, I was a bus driver. A passenger boarded the imaginary bus and asked if I had change for ten thousand lira. My reply, in Italian, was "I am a bus driver, not a banker!"

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In one of the role-playing scripts that the Italian language instructor assigned to us, I was a bus driver. A passenger boarded the imaginary bus and asked if I had change for ten thousand lira. My reply, in Italian, was "I am a bus driver, not a banker!"

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Thanks for the laugh.

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Originally posted by DennisM:
So we're OK with governmental force being used to make private businesses do what we want them to do? Not because of safety or anything, just because it's "fair" and popular?

Got it.

What do we call an authoritarian govt that controls business?