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stoy@lemmy.zip 6 hours agoHere in Sweden, that would also have been rejected, most stores won’t accept cash at all.
I had to pay for my car using a wire transfer a few days before I picked it up.
I do think that it would have been funny to just use tap to pay, but apparently that would have increased the cost by a lot.
Just imagine paying for a car with something like an SJ credit card and get the motherload of priopoäng!
(For the non-Swedes, SJ is a train company with a version of a frequent flyer miles point system, and they like most of those have a credit card where every SEK spent earns you 1 point. A trip from Malmö to Stockholm (600km, ~4,5h) can be bought for some 12-16000 points. A new car costs anywhere from 300000 sek up to a million and beyond.)
I think there has been some EU-wide regulation that you cab’t pay more than 10k€ in cash or sth, it’s to prevent money laundering.
SARGE@startrek.website 5 hours ago
That’s insane to me.
I have money to buy something, and I’m being refused the sale despite this money being legal tender.
stoy@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
I get what you mean, and agree to some extent, but the reality is that handling cash is expensive and dangerous.
Back in the early 2000s, there was a large wave of high profile armours car robberies in Sweden.
Some even completely blew up the armoured car.
This lead to a debate and a deliberate effort to reduce the ammount of cash used in Sweden.
I remember reading something about 97% of all transactions inside Sweden are now done electronically.
This has lead to banks having offices that don’t handle cash, and that banks are looking at cash deposits with suspicion, since you can’t trace cash.
This, as usual, only really affects normal poeple, and criminals have ways around it.
piccolo@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
In the US, it is legal tender to pay off all debts. But merchants can refuse to give you debt if you are paying cash. Thus have no obligation to accept it.