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Re:In praise of cash by ThrowawayR2 on Friday March 03, 2017 @03:15PM (#13785986)
That doesn't negate either coldpie's or my points; if anything, having people use cash effectively helping to subsidize the "credit card tax" only adds more weight to the argument that it's an unreasonable arrangement that only serves to enrich the credit card companies.
Re:In praise of cash by oculusthrift on Friday March 03, 2017 @03:26PM (#13786127)
yes it does. from a game theoretic perspective, it only would make sense for me to switch to cash if everyone else did so that the store wouldn't incorporate the extra fee into the price of their goods. However, one can't control others, they can only control their own behavior. So in a situation where there goods cost extra, because others are still using their cards and the owner has to markup prices, the only rational thing to do is to use the payment method you prefer. And economically speaking, all the cash users are paying extra for a good they don't use.
Re:In praise of cash by yourthrowaway2 on Friday March 03, 2017 @07:45PM (#13788360)
You forgot a rule of the "game".

You can negotiate price with cash.

Re:In praise of cash by c22 on Saturday March 04, 2017 @03:08AM (#13789908)
By your own admission a few comments up you'd personally be saving 50 cents every time you shopped at a mom & pop store.