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So I can simultaneously be able buy something that costs $10k but I can't get mugged and lose it all?
by aianus 12y ago
So I can simultaneously be able buy something that costs $10k but I can't get mugged and lose it all?
- hga 12y ago$10K is an unreasonable amount of money to cite here. Heck, how many of us even have credit limits that high? Check or wire transfer is what I've used for such sums in times past. Also, I don't know where you live, but in most of the US (by state and population), we're allowed to carry concealed handguns after jumping through some moderate hoops, and in the places I've lived like this, Virginia and Missouri, muggings are also not-coincidentally much less frequent (that was particularly clear when I lived in Northern Virginia with D.C. and Maryland a subway trip away). I routinely carry ~$450 and a .45, more if needed, and just don't worry about credit card compromise aside from uses on the net. ATM compromise is another story, of course; the one I use with a bank account with "a lot" of money is in a Wal-Mart open 24x7 that's part of a bank branch open during normal business hours, there are so many easier targets I'd be really surprised if it got hacked. The other one I use never has more than $1,000 in the account. For that matter, I don't let the first one get much above $2,500 before transferring money out of it.
- Nursie 12y ago>> $10K is an unreasonable amount of money to cite here. Heck, how many of us even have credit limits that high? I've bought cars using plastic before. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one to do this. Frankly I'd rather deal with the odd bit of CC fraud than carry a gun, but then I'm British.
- hga 12y agoThe gun, I should note, is to protect my life; the mugging/robbery angle only comes in because by definition it requires a credible threat of violence, the mugger isn't going to know how much money I'm carrying.