Comment on Phonecall campaign to tell MasterCard & Visa to stop censoring adult content
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoStop buying things. Go to your bank and withdraw cash. Write checks.
Comment on Phonecall campaign to tell MasterCard & Visa to stop censoring adult content
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoStop buying things. Go to your bank and withdraw cash. Write checks.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Who the fuck takes cheques? Hell, some places don’t even take cash any more.
duchess@feddit.org 1 day ago
People are so angry in here that they didn’t catch the obvious sarcasm.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Then stop buying things.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Welp I guess I don’t have bills now. No electric bill, no water bill, no car loan, no phone and internet bills, nope. Captain_aggravated says so.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Your utilities won’t take checks. Sure.
squozenode@lemmy.world 1 day ago
My mother asked me the other day “does $LocalGroceryStore still take cash?”
I looked at her like she had five heads and said, “yes”
Blackmist@feddit.uk 22 hours ago
It’s mostly small places that don’t. I think they started during covid so they didn’t have to physically take anything from the grubby customers, and found they didn’t lose much (if any) business over it.
Cash still costs money to handle, either for the time or wages of taking it to the bank, or paying somebody to collect it every day.
I guess it helps that contactless payments are now ubiquitous. Practically everyone has a phone, and readers like SumUp and Square can be had for a few quid.
But then there are places that still only take cash, because it’s easier to hide that from the tax man.
dkppunk@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Recently, I’ve actually found the opposite to be true in the US. Smaller places prefer cash because they can avoid the CC fees that they get charged for every single swipe. Many places have a sign at the register that they add an additional ~3% to the bill to cover fees which it can be avoided by paying in cash. I’ve started using cash over the last year to avoid the additional charges, especially for takeout.