-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, Michael Gurski wrote:
It's that wonderful season again, when all the assholes are out in force, and people feel obligated to purchase merchandise to give to each other. For various reasons, I don't believe in credit cards, and yet, trying to pay for something by personal check at the local Hecht's, they either *require* a credit card, or go through the Nazi check-warranty company Equifax. However, it doesn't stop there...only SOME departments seem to have this requirement (Electronics/Luggage not requiring). Is it legal to require credit cards?
The only real legality of requiring some form of payment is that if they take one form of federal reserve currency (eg the one dollar bill) they have to take any form of federal reserve currency (eg the penny). This means that when your parking ticket says you can't pay in change, you can still pay in change. Legally (according to CNN anyway, i've never bothered to actually go look it up) if you ofer to pay something in change, and they decline, you can give them one warning, and _assuming a debt is previously incurred (eg parking ticket, not new pants) you don't have to pay. Unfortunatly, they can decline cash/change completely, or decline checks, or decline credit cards. But if they take one dollar bills, go by the bank first and get it in pennies. Pay with that. --Deviant PGP KeyID = E820F015 Fingerprint = 3D6AAB628E3DFAA9 F7D35736ABC56D39 "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive." -- C. S. Lewis -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBMr3SkTCdEh3oIPAVAQH6Lgf/SthkfxgY7R0iJltRFOmdLEpqOo5g0a5P mWCi1nUrHzEZha3ij+gntxIWCFRaY/1qLyk1RJgDHAiFa5gWQBULxy6jyTBm5Zcz NMXkd8VardL9AmjmJd3LccCx9VMHo8/YqZ/hQOJXFL4/QuwDyNLS+vbUmNKPPGzD d0ewCoQmgHxh2KpHYE1+O2jo/4yxRGr6Vl7jrE4HZ6GQ0U+YF7+WIf7mVP9gwZHw +XNRgdcT56iqtPhISPzq5NH/4djwisPNYat/ywW6u+HSfaFHhi+79mWOlprpEiK4 Vfa9iRdwTCkQuVTDJdbFuqnsQHGxBrgDsBUmFLH0WNT0CXCpECEgyg== =aMoc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----