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Originally Posted by ApK
That's ok, I trust everybody else can see it. It's rather humorous to follow a complaint of a merchant dictating how customers can pay with a statement about how you dictate how your customers can pay. "All forms of payment except one" is also slightly amusing when the 'one' is the one used more widely than all the others combined*.
To be clear, I didn't mean to suggest that not accepting cash was good. The libertarian in me cringes at it.
ApK
*Source: My mind, but it feels accurate.
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I can see where you are coming from now, but the difference is from my business point of view most, in fact I think I could probably say all of my customers, choose to pay either by cash or cheque without any input from me, card doesn't seem to be the go to payment from a customers point of view when dealing with tradesmen (from my experience). I would also still, respectively, argue there is a
massive difference between what the shop was doing and what I do, that difference being I offer customers a choice of payment methods, the shop gave you no choice - card or nothing. We can at least both agree on not accepting cash = not good
Just an example to clarify the way I see the situation - You go into said shop, you hand over your card to pay it's refused for whatever reason, oh well your out of luck. One of my customers goes to pay me, realises they forgot to draw out some cash - that's ok you can write a cheque and if worse comes to worse and they can't find their cheque book I would even let them do a bank transfer, with my business they still have choices.