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If I want a coffee, I take my cash to the corner store and buy it. It is easy. Doing any commerce on the internet is nowhere near as easy as that. You are clea

If I want a coffee, I take my cash to the corner store and buy it. It is easy. Doing any commerce on the internet is nowhere near as easy as that. You are clearly someone who has never not had a credit card. These things are almost impossible without one, and certainly not as easy as getting a coffee. And news flash, lots of student and poor people DO NOT HAVE A CREDIT CARD! And even if you do, you go to some dodgy website that you have never heard of before and just enter in your credit card details? Well, I don't.

sliverstorm 16y ago
> If I want a coffee, I take my cash to the corner store and buy it. It is easy. Doing any commerce on the internet is nowhere near as easy as that. If you have the right form of currency, it's EASIER. You don't have to go to the corner store. > You are clearly someone who has never not had a credit card Are you kidding me? I didn't have a credit card until I was 20. How did I get by, how did I survive? Any checking account nowadays has the option of a debit card, which works just as well. Any bank account at all can be accessed by Paypal, and bank accounts are not nearly as exclusive- I opened my own savings account when I was 12. Friends, parents, friends' parents... Someone you know has a credit card, and you can pay them back. Besides, just because you don't posses the means to pay for something doesn't mean you can take it. If I go into a corner store with only Yen in my pocket, I can't very well pay for a magazine even though I have the money. Does that justify me to steal it? Not a chance. P.S. it's actually easier to get a cc if you are a student...
jws 16y ago
There is a Walgreens about every 10,000 feet where I live. Each one of them has prepaid credit cards in the impulse buy racks[1] by the checkout. Anyone can convert their physical dollars into credit card dollars. Would you like the remains of your shattered argument in a bag or may I dispose of them for you?[2] [1] And pregnancy tests. Who impulse buys a pregnancy test? [2] Ok, that was uncalled for, but its hot and I'm not feeling civil right now, and you started it with the all caps.
- megablast 16y ago
  Congratulations. As someone who does not live in the US, I have never seen these before, and I am pretty sure they are new as in the last few years. They do sound like a solution to my problem, and I will investigate if they have them here in Australia.

sliverstorm 16y ago

> If I want a coffee, I take my cash to the corner store and buy it. It is easy. Doing any commerce on the internet is nowhere near as easy as that. If you have the right form of currency, it's EASIER. You don't have to go to the corner store. > You are clearly someone who has never not had a credit card Are you kidding me? I didn't have a credit card until I was 20. How did I get by, how did I survive? Any checking account nowadays has the option of a debit card, which works just as well. Any bank account at all can be accessed by Paypal, and bank accounts are not nearly as exclusive- I opened my own savings account when I was 12. Friends, parents, friends' parents... Someone you know has a credit card, and you can pay them back. Besides, just because you don't posses the means to pay for something doesn't mean you can take it. If I go into a corner store with only Yen in my pocket, I can't very well pay for a magazine even though I have the money. Does that justify me to steal it? Not a chance. P.S. it's actually easier to get a cc if you are a student...

jws 16y ago

There is a Walgreens about every 10,000 feet where I live. Each one of them has prepaid credit cards in the impulse buy racks[1] by the checkout. Anyone can convert their physical dollars into credit card dollars. Would you like the remains of your shattered argument in a bag or may I dispose of them for you?[2] [1] And pregnancy tests. Who impulse buys a pregnancy test? [2] Ok, that was uncalled for, but its hot and I'm not feeling civil right now, and you started it with the all caps.

megablast 16y ago
Congratulations. As someone who does not live in the US, I have never seen these before, and I am pretty sure they are new as in the last few years. They do sound like a solution to my problem, and I will investigate if they have them here in Australia.