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I've found they're not really giving a discount, at least in my neck of the woods. They jack up the prices to include the credit surcharge, and then when you pay cash, you're actually paying what would have been the "normal" price.
You pay less..... The count is less than otherwise.
The store pays less (cost of business) and passes this on to you.
What would be a good term for this?????
It's a discount in name. They're playing with words.
Yesterday you lunch at a coffee shop for $10. Today you go in to find that same lunch is $11.00, but if you pay with cash, you get a 9% "discount". So that lunch ends up $10. So... not really a discount, they just found a way to say "we're not charging extra for using a card, we're giving a 'discount' for paying cash."
I'm OK with calling it "cash discount".
This can occur compared to writing a check.
I do agree that this is a matter of semantics.
Fraud.
They should have a big sign outside
"A portion of your purchase supports the globohomos"
Exactly. But it's still a discount from the plastic price. I pay cash at local businesses that charge extra for plastic. I use plastic at the ones who don't give the cash discount.
This is not what is really going on. "Cash" is a type of controlled opposition. An argument could be made that there are advantages to cash, and they are legitimate arguments, but they miss the larger picture of the fraud.
What you are really being offered with the "cash or credit" choice is akin to choosing between a hangman's noose (A) and the gas chamber (B). Both A and B suck, but the gas chamber hurts a whole lot less and if it has a built in 2000 degree oven, the funeral expenses are free. You even get a group discount with the gas chamber.
B is obviously a better option. This meme suggests you are an idiot if you aren't smart enough to choose the best one, when in fact you should be choosing option D, which is not listed.
All the gas stations in my town charge less for cash.
In the UK, when I shop in a supermarket that offers 'points' etc. I always offer them to the people behind me in the queue.
This has several benefits:
I loan my grocery store card to others in line. It really screws up their algorithms. They don't know if I'm a Southerner or a Mexican. And yes, I've had some of those religious candles bought while a Mexican was using my card. :)
Jenny?
Someone over 60 who saw the video on MTV back when they showed music videos all day long.
Messing up the data.
I like it!
Modern problems require bigly modern solutions.
Well done, fren.
Many places don't allow this now.
Really? Do they say why?
If you really want to screw with big data:
Pay cash for everything. Have your friends and family give you cash to buy stuff for them. Give them cash to buy stuff for you. Barter and trade at swap-meets, and post ads for same in newspapers. Write letters instead of email. Phone instead of text. Turn off GPS. And always file paper tax returns.
Sure, all this CAN still be tracked - but it's a lot of manpower and man-hours.
I'm convinced that if we could convince 10% of the people in the USA to file their taxes by hand, on paper forms, we'd grind the IRS to a halt.
If 15% started paying cash for most everything, we'd cut off excess theft by the fed. They like 'policies' that shrink the cash economy, as it tends to help 'grow' government revenue.
As long as we keep paying them to waste money, they'll keep spending it...on ridiculous things.
So many places here don't accept cash. Or you can only buy tickets on-line to do an event. I guess all those idiots who don't know how to count back change have won this round.
The only place in my town that I know of which doesn't like cash is Walgreens. But their phone system went down the other day, and cash is all they could process. Luckily I always have cash.
At this point I'm guessing that every ATM keeps track of serial numbers as bills are dispensed as do business deposits so there's probably a solid paper trail of how cash flows.
Amen.
Govt, Goolag, gangstalkers... F them all, do not comply
Problem with this is that cash is still a creation of the Federal Reserve, a private entity. So it technically belongs to them. We are just borrowing it.
This is how they gain jurisdiction into all financial matters and how the government can claim you are stealing from them if you don't pay taxes.
If only there was a form of money that wasn't owned or controlled by a single entity...
This belongs in c/funny... because it's funny if that dude thinks $10 is buying him anything these days.
I'm not even sure he could get ONE egg for $10 (??)
I can get two dozen for that. So?
I can get four six-packs of Mt. Dew for that when they're on sale.