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I don’t mind the high prices for lunch, but charging extra for a debit card? Over a dollar extra? It’s not the high cost of parking that’s keeping people away from your downtown business. —Rarely Carry Cash
This article appears in Mar 26 – Apr 1, 2015.
11 Comments
Do you use your debit card to buy a pack of cigarettes? There has to be a minimum limit. What did you have for lunch? A bowl of soup?
The burger joint inside the shitty bar seems to be doing ok and they charge over two bucks to give you your money to buy the beer and burgers…
Fuck debit, I carry cash. Local businesses benefit from people who pay cash instead of debit/credit lowering their costs by 1-3%. Fuck banks and their “convenience”!!!!
Carry more cash.
Walk out. Refuse to pay. The loss is theirs. I never pay a debit or cedit card fee.
Want my money and continued business? Don’t charge me for buying your products. The profits that you will make from my continued business will more than cover any kind of bank charge you incur. Further, your bank charges can be claimed on your income tax. There is no real loss to the store owner.
It’s a money grab by unscrupulous business owners. I think that anyone who pays those charges are just simply suckers.
I’m a cash money man, myself. If you took out $300 in cash on Friday and you only have $20 left on Monday then you know how much you spent. If it’s all on cards it’s easy to lose track.
pay with credit just be smart about it. Use it exactly the same as a debit card pay it every week you get bonus points and as a bonus it is illegal in NS for business to pass the fee of using it onto the customer
^^^To quote James Tiberius Kirk. Why does God need a debit card?
Really, Brandon? Is it illegal to raise your prices by 3%? It’s only illegal to SAY it’s because of the credit card fees. If you actually think that you don’t pay for the fees in the price, you’re really a lot dumber than I thought. I didn’t think you were a MENSA member to begin with but, if you believe that, I can sell you PEI and you can put it on your credit card.
then at that point cash is paying the same prices as credit and i’ll take my points that give me free money and be happy 🙂
I support a cash-less society. My fuck, its 2015 and we just said goodbye to the useless penny. Fuck knickles, fuck dimes, fuck quarters, fuck the half dollars that crackheads buy smokes with at the corner store, fuck loonies, fuck toonies and fuck the useless guilder that thay still use in Curacao.