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What I just told the chick after I placed my Pizza order and she said "Cash Only" Place isn't that great anyway so alternate just showed up from a place I haven't tried before which upon first viewing looks better anyway. Off to kill it with some NetFlix. :thumbsup

I'd have asked why cash only - just to hear their excuse.

The produce outlet: our margin is so slim anyway, we can't afford it
The bakery: we might go back to taking cc's if we start to lose business
The hipster foodie burger joint: taking cc's was taking $ out of our pockets
The pizza delivery place: when we can't swipe the card, it costs us too much to process the cc plus chargebacks

it seems to be a micro-trend w/ small biz around here

Could see if I lived in farmland but I'm in Chicago and when I can plug a PayPal reader into an iPhone and swipe into my PayPal business account think a business can find a way to take a card as well. Think you would rather have orders pre-paid instead of having your delivery guy fumbling with cash after Midnight. Old school place that's not the greatest but open late as hell and I've always picked up or had cash on me. Called an alternate that could take a card as didn't feel like going out and Pizza was better so by them not taking a card and making me look for an alternate led to me to a new source so first place lost my future business since the pie was better at the second place. :2 cents:

I remember back in 2007 I went to Indiana for goodgirl's birthday. I had volunteered to pay for a party so all her relatives could come; it was decided that we would go to the best pizza place in the town.

Next door to the pizza place was a cake/ice cream shop that I had ordered the birthday cake from. I excused myself from the party and walked next door to get the cake. As I was walking back in to the pizza place I saw the sign, "Cash Only." Fortunately, pizza isn't too expensive.

Apparently it was mafia owned and cash was all they accepted from day one.

Unreported income and stolen sales tax.:2 cents:

I got an old Italian buddy like that and he owns a strip club, met him when I was an auto mechanic like 20 years ago as he use to bring his old Cadillac to me to work on at my shop, he takes cards though and sends free shots at the club when he sees me which usually makes the girls go a little overboard in the back but it's a rare occurrence these days for me to go anymore, can't hang like the old days. :1orglaugh

If ya ever roll to Chicago good handful of places but http://edwardosonhalsted.com/ would be one of my favorites. Usually do thin crust sausage/mushroom or sausage/jalepeno :2 cents:

they could be doing something shady and only wanting cash. My Two Cents

Not really, they usually give the receipt.

I SAID CASH ONLY BITCH!

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Can't blame them when Apple think it's 2012.

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New avatar for you. :1orglaugh

The "cash only" sign should say "we inconvenience you scummy customers because we blatantly cheat on our taxes".

LOL. Nice one.

Cash only because small business owners don't want to pay the fees.personally that's how I pay.takes too damn long for transactions with a debit card

The money lost from turned off customers would be more of a loss than some credit card processing fees. I know that I've walked out of a couple of places because they said they don't take cards.

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If you could get away without paying 8% processing.... Would't you do it too?

BTW... I am here at the Dating Factory offices in England and I just chatted to with the customer service department... And they tell me that people still send in cash.

I think honestly if you look at the way card associations treat merchants especially with card-not-present transactions it doesn't surprise me at all.

If I thought I could afford to tell them to go to hell I certainly would. I am very happy to hear of this and hope it becomes a growing trend. Card associations are so busy kissing consumer's asses and billing it all to the merchants I think it's past time for some backlash, hope it grows.

You can thank the chinese kids assembling your shit :thumbsup

2010 - Apple admits using child labour

2011 - Apple's child labour issues worsen

2012 - Your iPhone Was Built, In Part, By 13 Year-Olds Working 16 Hours A Day For 70 Cents An Hour

2013 - 'Even worse than Foxconn': Apple rocked by child labour claims

2014 - Repeated Violations at Chinese supplier

Where I'm at, the county would come in and go over my receipts and give me my bill for sales tax. Sure you could work around that, but it would be too much work and risk for the reward.

Call and tell them exactly this.

Better be some fantasmic pizza with a policy like that. :D

Delivery places near me all have a hand-held gizmo they bring right to the door with your order, you can pay with CC or debit card.

Guess they realized it costs money to accept other forms of payment! I think it's a GREAT trend and we should all be backing it. Leave credit cards for when they're needed, like online porn, dating and such.