# Suppose Someone Wanted to Pay You Some Money: How Could they Do that? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 22, 2024, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-someone-wanted-to-pay-you-some-money-how-could-they-do-that/996513 "2024-01-22T21:03:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2024, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-someone-wanted-to-pay-you-some-money-how-could-they-do-that/996513/81 "2024-01-24T10:03:25Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > I will bet that drug buys, hookers, lap dancers, and similar things are all still cash only. Drugs, maybe, but not the others, here. Even some panhandlers take SnapScan. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2024, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-someone-wanted-to-pay-you-some-money-how-could-they-do-that/996513/82 "2024-01-24T10:27:20Z")
Drug payments at the high end of the market have been electronic for years. I don’t think I have made a cash payment since about 2005. I do quite like the idea of a stripper twirling around with a QR code on her g-string, though. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2024, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-someone-wanted-to-pay-you-some-money-how-could-they-do-that/996513/83 "2024-01-24T10:39:00Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > Drug payments at the high end of the market have been electronic for years. I don’t think I have made a cash payment since about 2005. That reminds me - you going to the Burn this year? ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2024, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-someone-wanted-to-pay-you-some-money-how-could-they-do-that/996513/84 "2024-01-24T10:45:01Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Cash, check, PayPal or Venmo are fine with me. This for me too. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2024, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-someone-wanted-to-pay-you-some-money-how-could-they-do-that/996513/85 "2024-01-24T10:50:12Z")
No plans so far. I am taking my kids to an offshoot of the burn, Rabbit Hearty Party. Run by burners, but aimed specifically at kids, 10 Feb. I ordered 3 cans of fart spray from China, I am hoping to go dressed as skunks. And there is a running joke in my family about farts. ETA: oh, in the spirit of this thead, I paid electronically! ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2024, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-someone-wanted-to-pay-you-some-money-how-could-they-do-that/996513/86 "2024-01-24T14:55:00Z")
I’ve seen panhandlers here in Chicago with their Patreon or GoFundMe or Venmo or whatever handle. So it’s here, as well. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2024, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-someone-wanted-to-pay-you-some-money-how-could-they-do-that/996513/87 "2024-01-24T15:21:09Z")
Give me cash. Do it via PayPal. Write a check (last resort). ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2024, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-someone-wanted-to-pay-you-some-money-how-could-they-do-that/996513/88 "2024-01-25T00:10:55Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > I do quite like the idea of a stripper twirling around with a QR code on her g-string, though. > Hey Honey, quit jiggling that thang around! My camera can’t catch your QR code. Why doncha’ just bring it right here close to my face and hold still for a sec so I can aim? ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2024, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-someone-wanted-to-pay-you-some-money-how-could-they-do-that/996513/89 "2024-01-25T06:23:19Z")
bank transfers (which were much cheaper in Taiwan than in Japan), an app called LINE (common in Asia) or cash. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2024, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-someone-wanted-to-pay-you-some-money-how-could-they-do-that/996513/90 "2024-01-28T07:27:17Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Cash in the mail is not a good idea. I mean, up to a $20 sure, but not much more. In 1980-81, when I was attending ET “A” school in Great Lakes, IL, I would write letters in Braille to my gf (later **kaylasmom** ) every other week, and put five $20 bills in the manila envelope with them. Never lost one (and it bought what would eventually be our bedroom furniture). ---
**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2024, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-someone-wanted-to-pay-you-some-money-how-could-they-do-that/996513/91 "2024-02-18T05:48:15Z")
Cash is first choice. However, if we’re not meeting “in person” interac etransfer is very handy and free. If we’re sending money to our grandchildren that live in the US we use international etransfer. That service is also on the bank’s online banking. That costs about $5 CDN. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-someone-wanted-to-pay-you-some-money-how-could-they-do-that/996513.md?page=4)