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Either the credit card machine is broken and you must pay too much cash... Wouldn't you just respond "Sorry, no cash!" and walk away? It's literally true for

Either the credit card machine is broken and you must pay too much cash... Wouldn't you just respond "Sorry, no cash!" and walk away? It's literally true for me - I rarely have more than $10 cash on hand, because I never need it.

jncfhnb 3y ago
Because they’re threatening
- alistairSH 3y ago
  I guess it depends on the location. I had a car service pull this on my at Denver International a few years ago. He wasn't asking for more than the flat-fee from downtown to the airport, so I hit the ATM and gave him the cash. But if I had been in a hurry, he would have been SOL, I would have gone straight to security and not given it a second thought.
  - jncfhnb 3y ago
    Damn, I guess you’re hypothetically really resilient to that sort of thing
- rchaud 3y ago
  Threatening? Most taxicabs have cameras inside, and I've never heard of a driver getting violent with a passenger over an inability to pay (different from a refusal to pay), considering their picture and cab ID are prominently displayed inside the cab.
  - snapcaster 3y ago
    This and the sibling comment both show a pretty big lack of sympathy or empathy. Maybe you've never been in a situation where the line is blurry between dangerous/not-dangerous but maybe just assume everyone besides you isn't a moron and it's not as easy as you're saying
    - alistairSH 3y ago
      It's not a lack of empathy, I literally don't know how this would work in the driver's favor. I rarely carry cash. If we got to the destination and the driver demanded cash, what's he expecting will happen? Everywhere I've taken a cab in the last decade requires cabs to have CC readers.
      - gorbypark 3y ago
        Generally the idea is that they say the machine doesn’t work, and if you say you have no cash / won’t go to an ATM the machine magically starts working.
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Either the credit card machine is broken and you must pay too much cash... Wouldn't you just respond "Sorry, no cash!" and walk away? It's literally true for

by alistairSH 3y ago

jncfhnb 3y ago
Because they’re threatening
- alistairSH 3y ago
  I guess it depends on the location. I had a car service pull this on my at Denver International a few years ago. He wasn't asking for more than the flat-fee from downtown to the airport, so I hit the ATM and gave him the cash. But if I had been in a hurry, he would have been SOL, I would have gone straight to security and not given it a second thought.
  - jncfhnb 3y ago
    Damn, I guess you’re hypothetically really resilient to that sort of thing
- rchaud 3y ago
  Threatening? Most taxicabs have cameras inside, and I've never heard of a driver getting violent with a passenger over an inability to pay (different from a refusal to pay), considering their picture and cab ID are prominently displayed inside the cab.
  - snapcaster 3y ago
    This and the sibling comment both show a pretty big lack of sympathy or empathy. Maybe you've never been in a situation where the line is blurry between dangerous/not-dangerous but maybe just assume everyone besides you isn't a moron and it's not as easy as you're saying
    - alistairSH 3y ago
      It's not a lack of empathy, I literally don't know how this would work in the driver's favor. I rarely carry cash. If we got to the destination and the driver demanded cash, what's he expecting will happen? Everywhere I've taken a cab in the last decade requires cabs to have CC readers.
      - gorbypark 3y ago
        Generally the idea is that they say the machine doesn’t work, and if you say you have no cash / won’t go to an ATM the machine magically starts working.
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