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Re:Swedes turn against cashlessness by cantrevealname on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @04:00PM (#16748526)
In addition, I like the finality of a cash transaction. For anything other than cash, I have to keep records in case something goes wrong. Example: A hotel might double-bill my credit card, and this has actually happened twice to me. If you pay cash, it's impossible to be double billed at some future point. Perhaps you still want a receipt, but you never need to check it against statements.

The finality of cash avoids having to keep, organize, and verify a lot of paper records if you don't really need the receipts.

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Re:Swedes turn against cashlessness by sridca on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @04:06PM (#16748584)
There was a hotel in Brooklyn which required that I provide them a credit card for security deposit. Or was it not the norm?
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Re:Swedes turn against cashlessness by softawre on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @04:28PM (#16748774)
Almost all hotels do this.
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Re:Swedes turn against cashlessness by ragequitta on Friday April 06, 2018 @03:01AM (#16771459)
The finality of cash is also why I typically have none on me. Getting robbed, while rare, would suck real bad if I had more than $20 in my wallet.
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