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- From: pciszek@nyx.cs.du.edu (Paul Ciszek)
- Newsgroups: co.general
- Subject: Re: Phone numbers?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.040740.5767@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 04:07:40 GMT
- References: <Jan26.010425.23936@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <1993Jan26.061441.7865@advtech.uswest.com>
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- smithrud@advtech.uswest.com writes:
-
- >I have never read or heard that a person is obligated to give out their
- >phone number when making store purchases with a credit card or a
- >personal check.
-
- No, you are not obligated to give your phone number. And the merchant is
- not obligated to accept a check or credit card as payment. There is only
- one kind of legal tender that must be accepted as payment for all debts
- public and private, and it's green and has pictures of dead presidents
- (and Ben Franklin) on it. Other than that, payment can be in any form--
- gold bullion, quartz beads, trapdoor encrypted numeric vouchers-- provided
- that that the terms are agreeable to BOTH parties. So, if you pay cash
- they HAVE to take it; if you want to pay some other way, they can ask
- you to do a few things to make them happy.
-
-
- Paul Ciszek When we are planning for posterity, we
- ought to remember that virtue is not
- pciszek@nyx.cs.du.edu hereditary. --Thomas Paine
-