The law where I live pretty much says you have to accept all the most common forms of payment. Or used to, but after covid they’ve used hygiene as a reason to save on the costs of cash.
Yeah electronic is usually much easier, but unfortunately I have quite a few things which I need and/or get cash from. Which isn’t ideal, but since not doing it would mean worse things, I do do it, while waiting for my society to improve.
But Visa Electron doesn’t do all those things perfectly, btw. Better today, but I remember having overdrawn my account a bunch of times as a youth, because when I was broke I’d shop at small stores I knew that their machine didn’t properly verify funds before placing a pending purchase, even when it was supposed to not be able to do that.
Also I don’t have to pay fees to my banks or ATM’s here, not yet at least. Forex is pushing ATMs here though, with lots of ATM’s for foreign currency. Who is enough of a dipshit to use an ATM for foreign currency in their home country before going on a trip? Scams, the lot of them.
The law where I live pretty much says you have to accept all the most common forms of payment. Or used to, but after covid they’ve used hygiene as a reason to save on the costs of cash.
Yeah electronic is usually much easier, but unfortunately I have quite a few things which I need and/or get cash from. Which isn’t ideal, but since not doing it would mean worse things, I do do it, while waiting for my society to improve.
But Visa Electron doesn’t do all those things perfectly, btw. Better today, but I remember having overdrawn my account a bunch of times as a youth, because when I was broke I’d shop at small stores I knew that their machine didn’t properly verify funds before placing a pending purchase, even when it was supposed to not be able to do that.
Also I don’t have to pay fees to my banks or ATM’s here, not yet at least. Forex is pushing ATMs here though, with lots of ATM’s for foreign currency. Who is enough of a dipshit to use an ATM for foreign currency in their home country before going on a trip? Scams, the lot of them.
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