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- From: tzs@stein.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith)
- Newsgroups: misc.legal
- Subject: Re: Sorry, we don't accept cash... Huh?
- Date: 3 Jan 1993 17:24:35 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington School of Law, Class of '95
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- >because it is not a good idea to send cash through the mail. I would, however,
- >expect any company (credit card/gas/phone/etc.) to take cash If I paid at
- >their office in person.
-
- What if almost all customers of the company do not use cash? As an extreme
- example, would you really expect to be able to walk into Boeing and pay
- cash for a 767? So few of their customers pay cash (none, probably), that
- they probably do not have a procedure set up to deal with a large amount
- of cash.
-
- --Tim Smith
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