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> He offered to pay, and they wouldn't take a credit card, PayPal, Venmo, Zelle, wire transfer, or any other modern form of payment. No, he had to go to Western
by Merad 4y ago
> He offered to pay, and they wouldn't take a credit card, PayPal, Venmo, Zelle, wire transfer, or any other modern form of payment. No, he had to go to Western Union.
I'm guessing they told him to get a Western Union money order, as those can't be reversed after they're cashed (AFAIK). Most modern forms of payment offer some level of consumer protection, as in they can be canceled or reversed. TBH a repo business might not even be able to get a merchant account for CC processing due to being a high risk business. Merchants that have high chargeback rates have to pay higher processing fees and can even lose their merchant account if their chargeback rate is too high for too long.
- chadlavi 4y agoIsn't a cashier's check from your bank also not cancelable?
- zie 4y agoIf the named payee has physical possession of the check, they can cash it and it can't be undone(without a valid court order, i.e. fraud, etc). All other situations, it can be undone, with work.
- AlbertCory 4y agoLook up craigslist scams. "My agent will come and pick up your goods, and give you a cashier's check." After 5 days, the check is discovered to be fake, and you have to pay the money. They're taking advantage of the payment lag.
- dreamcompiler 4y agoThis happened to me. A guy mailed me a cashier's check and said his "friend" would pick up the item. I called the bank the check was drawn on; they confirmed it was fake. I pretended I never got the money and the "friend" never showed up. Lesson learned. Now I only exchange Craigslist items in person, in the parking lot of a police station, for cash. And I test the cash with a counterfeit detector pen.
- technothrasher 4y ago> And I test the cash with a counterfeit detector pen. FYI, having owned a liquor store for a while and processing a ton of cash, the only counterfeit bills the pens could detect were the crappy amateur ones that were already pretty obvious without using the pen. Plenty of counterfeit bills passed the pen test just fine and didn't get revealed until the bank rejected them from a deposit.
- dreamcompiler 4y agoCashier's checks from people you don't know or banks you don't know should always be considered forgeries until proven otherwise. They are easy to fake and the penalties for faking them are virtually nil; hence forgeries are rampant. The days of cashier's checks being default trustworthy are long gone.
- ilyt 4y agoIf you're at bank you can just withdraw cash tho
- mrtksn 4y ago> I'm guessing they told him to get a Western Union money order, as those can't be reversed Ha, out of nowhere a use case for Bitcoin appears.
- Ancalagon 4y agoTil that BTC you paid with drops in value to nothing because it's not pegged to anything.
- t-writescode 4y agoHistorically, a common usecase of bitcoin is as an intermediary between two people. If I recall, if you "buy a pizza with bitcoin", the seller instantly switches it over to cash, so there's basically no loss.
- nemo44x 4y agoA repo also probably has a very financially unreliable customer base.
- stavros 4y agoHow am I the first commenter to mention cash?!
- AlbertCory 4y agoCash is so messy. You need a physical place to pay it, and a daily Brink's truck to take it to a bank. (although, yeah, you'd think GM Finance would have all that in most metropolitan areas.)