I would love that but the credit card companies make that illegal and you can get in trouble and have your ability to take credit cards revoked if they catch you doing that
It’s not “illegal”. It’s against their merchant agreement. No one is going to jail over it.
That said, the merchant agreement says you can’t charge more for credit card users. But it doesn’t say you can’t give a discount for using cash. That’s how my parents went around it.
Sounds like most merchants won’t even do the bare minimum of effort to research how to get around such restrictions and I’m sure they don’t lookthe other way when it’s in higher volume
It’s illegal in this state just to charge more than, I think $1.50 or $2 or something, for that shit anyway. Would be funny if those stores really were some kind of illegal front and they get found out because of that law. Like Capone getting put away on tax evasion.
Or do what a few places around me do, and charge an extra 10% if you pay by anything other than cash.
Maybe that cigarette store is actually a money laundering front… 🤔
I would love that but the credit card companies make that illegal and you can get in trouble and have your ability to take credit cards revoked if they catch you doing that
It’s not “illegal”. It’s against their merchant agreement. No one is going to jail over it.
That said, the merchant agreement says you can’t charge more for credit card users. But it doesn’t say you can’t give a discount for using cash. That’s how my parents went around it.
Sounds like most merchants won’t even do the bare minimum of effort to research how to get around such restrictions and I’m sure they don’t lookthe other way when it’s in higher volume
It’s illegal in this state just to charge more than, I think $1.50 or $2 or something, for that shit anyway. Would be funny if those stores really were some kind of illegal front and they get found out because of that law. Like Capone getting put away on tax evasion.