I get that if you have the money, it’s stupid to finance a car purchase, but you can do that without slapping a bundle of banknotes onto their desk.
My landlord wanted me to pay the deposit in cash, and I said no, and did a bank transfer instead. If I get mugged on the way to his office, or discover after the transaction that he’s a scammer, that money is gone. And I don’t see any advantage to me to pay with physical money.
Of course, if I had gotten the money in cash because I’d been working off the books, or if I’d gotten it through some criminal activity, I’d have been very happy to have the opportunity to use the cash.
A friend of mine had a husband who did carpentry and got paid cash under the table, and so they bought all their groceries in cash, so that they didn’t have to declare the income. Not the way I’d like to live.
All my money (when I had any) was legit. I prefer to pay cash for groceries and everything else on the principle that it is better not to have a centralized payment processor raking off a percentage of the transaction and recording it in their giant database every time anyone buys anything. The advantages seem pretty obvious.
I get that if you have the money, it’s stupid to finance a car purchase, but you can do that without slapping a bundle of banknotes onto their desk.
My landlord wanted me to pay the deposit in cash, and I said no, and did a bank transfer instead. If I get mugged on the way to his office, or discover after the transaction that he’s a scammer, that money is gone. And I don’t see any advantage to me to pay with physical money.
Of course, if I had gotten the money in cash because I’d been working off the books, or if I’d gotten it through some criminal activity, I’d have been very happy to have the opportunity to use the cash.
A friend of mine had a husband who did carpentry and got paid cash under the table, and so they bought all their groceries in cash, so that they didn’t have to declare the income. Not the way I’d like to live.
All my money (when I had any) was legit. I prefer to pay cash for groceries and everything else on the principle that it is better not to have a centralized payment processor raking off a percentage of the transaction and recording it in their giant database every time anyone buys anything. The advantages seem pretty obvious.