The worse place to pay with a card is at a counter service restaurant. After swiping your card it presents you with the tipping option, even for carry out. All the while the cashier is staring at you while you look for the "No Tip" button. Get an error or hit the buttons out of sequence, and the cashier has to do it for you after asking your tip selection. One of the few places I pay cash.You really should always have some cash on you - in small bills. The 7 year old kid selling lemonade at the end of his mom’s house driveway or the Brownie or school fundraiser selling cookies outside the grocery store will thank you. If you only have credit or debit cards what do you do, walk on pretending you did not see the kid? Tisk-tisk as my mom would have said.
You probably won't believe this but last summer there was a lemonade stand in Milwaukee where the kid had a Square reader.You really should always have some cash on you - in small bills. The 7 year old kid selling lemonade at the end of his mom’s house driveway or the Brownie or school fundraiser selling cookies outside the grocery store will thank you. If you only have credit or debit cards what do you do, walk on pretending you did not see the kid? Tisk-tisk as my mom would have said.
When I had a paper route I did this too! Looked like a gangster. Usually the wrapper was a sawbuck.I have a large roll of 1’s wrapped in a single 100
Debit cards don't have nearly the same protection as credit cards. And what the worry about your pin?Using you bank card as a credit card should afford you the same protections as using a credit card because of the Visa or Mastercard insignia.
That guy keeps the lights on at the gas station. The pumps break even.Just don't be like the guy who buys a bunch of scratch offs and scratches them at the counter and proceeds to buy more with the proceeds. Thus holding up the line immensely. It's a vicious cycle until someone starts yelling at the bum...
Yes-it's been prevalent for quite some time now.Paranoia strikes deep.![]()
I'm not paranoid about not having a debit card, I've known people that have lost a few grand before because someone skimmed their debit card credentials and used the card for a bunch of transactions within the local area so the bank wouldn't give them their money back because they say that you probably did it, so then your only recourse would be to see if the local police even care enough if you file a police report to go around to places where the transactions occurred and get surveillance footage to prove that someone used your stolen credentials.Paranoia strikes deep.![]()
If they have the Visa or Mastercard logo they do. Happened to my father in law, all money was put back immediately.Debit cards don't have nearly the same protection as credit cards. And what the worry about your pin?
It's not paranoia when you know institutions/corporations do something, they admit they do something if one reads the small print, and you get the the feedback through targeted advertisement that should have not been public information.Paranoia strikes deep.![]()