[vintageogauge]

Most gas stations have 3% added into the price pre gallon for using a credit card and a lot of them don't discount it for cash.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive

"This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private" (small print on the dollar bill)

I wonder what the reaction would be if someone incurred a debt for which the merchant only accepted credit payment (a car repair, say) and when it came time to pay up offered the amount owned in "legal tender" (i.e. cash) stating that he doesn't believe in, and has no credit cards of any kind.

There are places in this country that don't take MONEY at all in exchange for goods/services. For example - the public library. While most of them have used books for sale for a "friends of the library fund" - the books they lend out, you can't rent with money. You have to have a library card. That means you have to provide your name, address, phone number, and proof of residence or homeownership. You can't get a book without this.

Another example - certain swap meets in the midwest and south. They don't take cash, they don't take plastic. If you need someone to install the leaf gutter you just picked up last week, and have a hand-tiller you don't need, you can make a trade. Maybe a dentist will clean your teeth in trade for a couple dozen eggs from your backyard chickens.

Here in The Villages, there's a bakery at Sawgrass that doesn't take cash. They put up a sign on the counter to make sure everyone knows this BEFORE they ask to buy a slice of cake.

[Shipping up to Boston]

Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive

"This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private" (small print on the dollar bill)

I wonder what the reaction would be if someone incurred a debt for which the merchant only accepted credit payment (a car repair, say) and when it came time to pay up offered the amount owned in "legal tender" (i.e. cash) stating that he doesn't believe in, and has no credit cards of any kind.

Great point.....and one they won’t be able to gloss over

An example....Gillette Stadium in Foxboro (Robert Kraft specifically) got so much pushback from elder advocates and patrons sans smartphone apps or CC.......they had to put in cash to Visa card kiosks in the stadium. Which begs the question, did Kraft use a CC, phone app or cash when he got caught at the massage parlor in Jupiter a few years back! And what if they were cashless!

[Velvet]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

There are places in this country that don't take MONEY at all in exchange for goods/services. For example - the public library. While most of them have used books for sale for a "friends of the library fund" - the books they lend out, you can't rent with money. You have to have a library card. That means you have to provide your name, address, phone number, and proof of residence or homeownership. You can't get a book without this.

Another example - certain swap meets in the midwest and south. They don't take cash, they don't take plastic. If you need someone to install the leaf gutter you just picked up last week, and have a hand-tiller you don't need, you can make a trade. Maybe a dentist will clean your teeth in trade for a couple dozen eggs from your backyard chickens.

Here in The Villages, there's a bakery at Sawgrass that doesn't take cash. They put up a sign on the counter to make sure everyone knows this BEFORE they ask to buy a slice of cake.

Well with me it’s either no surcharge on credit card or cash. Or they simply don’t get my business. I literally walk out. Tips are cash. Gas pumps maybe different.

[dewilson58]

Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive

I wonder what the reaction would be if someone incurred a debt for which the merchant only accepted credit payment (a car repair, say) and when it came time to pay up offered the amount owned in "legal tender" (i.e. cash) stating that he doesn't believe in, and has no credit cards of any kind.

The car owner would not be leaving with their car.

[Michael G.]

Originally Posted by Velvet

Well with me it’s either no surcharge on credit card or cash. Or they simply don’t get my business. I literally walk out. Tips are cash. Gas pumps maybe different.

I was thinking wouldn't it be great to be with a party of 8 for dinner, all dress up with men in suits, women in long formal dresses walking into a fancy high-end restaurant after being seated and finding out there's a 4% surcharge on credit cards, then everyone gets up and walks out the door?
YES!

That could be a scene in a movie,

[Shipping up to Boston]

Originally Posted by Michael G.

I was thinking wouldn't it be great to be with a party of 8 for dinner, all dress up with men in suits, women in long formal dresses walking into a fancy high-end restaurant after being seated and finding out there's a 4% surcharge on credit cards, then everyone gets up and walks out the door?
YES!

That could be a scene in a movie,

“If you have to ask....you can’t afford it” ~JP Morgan

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by Michael G.

So, when you get dinged for 3% and 4% using your CC, you still loose.

But you do not lose as much

[Gpsma]

Originally Posted by ElDiabloJoe

I concur with this. Additionally, tipping in cash allows the tipped to not report or have to lose 20% of the tip to the IRS. If anyone needs more money in their pocket, it's service industry folks, IMHO.

If service industry folk need more money thwn maybe go get a skill more than carrying plates to a table.
Waitstaff deserve nothing more than $5 per meal.

[Velvet]

Originally Posted by Michael G.

I was thinking wouldn't it be great to be with a party of 8 for dinner, all dress up with men in suits, women in long formal dresses walking into a fancy high-end restaurant after being seated and finding out there's a 4% surcharge on credit cards, then everyone gets up and walks out the door?
YES!

That could be a scene in a movie,

That would be unfair to the restaurant. And possibly illegal. You check first how they charge before ordering. I would not book a dinner party at a restaurant that did not accept cash if the alternative was a surcharge on credit cards.

[Shipping up to Boston]

Originally Posted by Gpsma

If service industry folk need more money thwn maybe go get a skill more than carrying plates to a table.
Waitstaff deserve nothing more than $5 per meal.

Now we know the inspiration for that ‘Slim Shady’ track by Eminem....about ‘spittin’ in the onion rings’!

[shaw8700@outlook.com]

Originally Posted by ElDiabloJoe

I concur with this. Additionally, tipping in cash allows the tipped to not report or have to lose 20% of the tip to the IRS. If anyone needs more money in their pocket, it's service industry folks, IMHO.

What do you do if the place won’t allow you to put the tip on your credit card? Not tip?

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by shaw8700@outlook.com

What do you do if the place won’t allow you to put the tip on your credit card? Not tip?

Never seen a restaurant that would not allow me to add the tip to my card

[Kelevision]

Originally Posted by Michael G.

I was thinking wouldn't it be great to be with a party of 8 for dinner, all dress up with men in suits, women in long formal dresses walking into a fancy high-end restaurant after being seated and finding out there's a 4% surcharge on credit cards, then everyone gets up and walks out the door?
YES!

That could be a scene in a movie,

Maybe you should list all these places that charge you 4% instead of talking about it because I’ve never been charged that anywhere around here. Name the places and help everyone out.

[Rwirish]

Nothing special here and it does not make surcharges easier to swallow.