An answer to earlier statements is yes I do have a visa check card. I am willing to use it. It is not a requirment I be able to use cash. I simply prefer to use cash.
When I have large bills I ask the cashier if they can break a hundred. If they don’t have the change to do it or it will deplete there smallers bills and effect later customers I don’t have an issue with them refusing. Granted I can never be sure what they actualy have in their till either. When I go in at lunch time at a McDonalds and I see the register open and there is a good stack of twenties I assume they could actual do the request. It is a policy against honoring a resonable request that bothers me. When I get a responce to my question like ‘no we don’t accept 100’s’ it pisses me off.
The local DMV won’t take cash AT ALL. Only checks, as far as I know, for just the above reason.
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The local DMV won’t take cash AT ALL.
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I’ve noticed this more and more for government offices. Although my take on the reason is different. And I’ve always wondered how a local government office can legally refuse federal government money.
I pay just about everything I can with my AMEX (or Visa if AMEX isn’t accepted) and then pay it off when I get the bill. I don’t like to carry cash if I can help it and look forward to a day when credit/debit cards are universally accepted.
Besides reducing the need to hit the ATM, I get very nice incentives from the credit card companies for using their card.
Only terrorists use cash. If you pay in cash, the terrorists have already won.