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Posted: 2/27/2019 9:02:15 PM EDT
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Who doesn't carry cash? At least $100 in case of situations like that. |
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Posted: 2/27/2019 9:03:23 PM EDT
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Thats why I always have a $50 folded up and tucked behind my license. Shit happens.
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Posted: 2/27/2019 9:03:36 PM EDT
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3% cash back with the card, cash has likely been up noses, in nasty strippers panties, and all sorts of other nasty places. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Posted: 2/27/2019 9:04:02 PM EDT
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Come back tomorrow. If they don't like that, tough titties.
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Posted: 2/27/2019 9:04:23 PM EDT
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You can run cards offline. It'll batch when internet comes back up.
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Posted: 2/27/2019 9:05:05 PM EDT
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Tell them you'll come back tomorrow. |
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Posted: 2/27/2019 9:05:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Always carry enough cash to make a robber happy. $50-100 should do. My lack of cash is going to be the least of his worries, if i get half a chance... 
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Posted: 2/27/2019 9:05:51 PM EDT
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This. Life rule. Cash works . Why do you need to eat on credit. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Posted: 2/27/2019 9:06:02 PM EDT
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Always carry enough cash to make a robber happy. $50-100 should do. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Who doesn't carry cash? At least $100 in case of situations like that. $50-100 should do. You know, for robbers... |
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Posted: 2/27/2019 9:07:02 PM EDT
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This. Life rule. Cash works . Why do you need to eat on credit. |
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Posted: 2/27/2019 9:07:35 PM EDT
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I keep two $100 bills in my phone case for these situations.
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Posted: 2/27/2019 9:09:09 PM EDT
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Asked for my check. Waited 5 minutes... Asked the server for my check again. He said the machine is down, thanks for your patience... Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Did they tell you ahead of time the credit card machine wasn't working? Or did it just happen? |
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Posted: 2/27/2019 9:11:40 PM EDT
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Happened to me at Bojangles.
Manager just said take it. |
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Posted: 2/27/2019 9:13:18 PM EDT
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I'd wait 15-20, then ask for my bill to be comped...
My time is probably worth more than the bill. This is why business ISPs have the 99.999% guarantee. Cry to Comcast, bitches! 
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Posted: 2/27/2019 9:14:21 PM EDT
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Tell them you'll come back tomorrow. |
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Posted: 2/27/2019 9:15:36 PM EDT
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Happened to me at a Chinese restaurant. They let me go home and come back tomorrow to pay. Didn't ask me for any info
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Posted: 2/27/2019 9:16:40 PM EDT
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I'm a network engineer. Step 1 would be "Get them enough temporary Internet access to process my transaction". If I have my laptop bag-o-tricks with me (I often do) and they point me to the back room where their shittastic router/switch/AP/modem lives, they're going to have Internet access. Until I leave. |
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Posted: 2/27/2019 9:20:46 PM EDT
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Carry cash op, I like to keep 100 on me. Lately been carrying more because 100 don’t go far. I also keep one check in the car, and two types of credit cards in my wallet.
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Posted: 2/27/2019 9:21:05 PM EDT
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I’m not wealthy by any means but I always keep a $100 bill in my wallet for emergencies like this. Mostly it’s because my debit card has been “stolen” so many times. Not the card itself, but my account info. I’ve never lost any money on the thefts, they have all been caught by MasterCard security but for some reason they never call me to tell me they shut my card off for my protection.
Funny, it hasn’t happened since I stopped going to bars and drinking. I always thought it was gas pump skimmers that were endemic in my area. |
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Posted: 2/27/2019 9:23:49 PM EDT
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You would be surprised. I have seen some POS systems that if anything becomes unhooked they stop working till you call tech support to have them re-initialize. Shit was crazy. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I'm a network engineer. Step 1 would be "Get them enough temporary Internet access to process my transaction". If I have my laptop bag-o-tricks with me (I often do) and they point me to the back room where their shittastic router/switch/AP/modem lives, they're going to have Internet access. Until I leave. 
The only thing that would fuck the situation up, was the payment processor not recognizing the public IP address (or netblock - I can't imagine many would require a globally routable static from their ISP) the transactions were now coming from - if they even check for that. Might be more tricky if it's part of a huge national chain, and everything rides over MPLS (or whatever) back to their data center first (and the processor expects this). I was really more thinking about a Mom & Pop type joint, leasing a terminal from whoever. |
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Posted: 2/27/2019 9:25:41 PM EDT
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I don't need to unplug anything. I just need access to their existing switch in the back room.
The only thing that would fuck the situation up, was the payment processor not recognizing the public IP address (or netblock - I can't imagine many would require a globally routable static from their ISP) the transactions were now coming from - if they even check for that. Might be more tricky if it's part of a huge national chain, and everything rides over MPLS (or whatever) back to their data center first (and the processor expects this). I was really more thinking about a Mom & Pop type joint, leasing a terminal from whoever. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I'm a network engineer. Step 1 would be "Get them enough temporary Internet access to process my transaction". If I have my laptop bag-o-tricks with me (I often do) and they point me to the back room where their shittastic router/switch/AP/modem lives, they're going to have Internet access. Until I leave.
The only thing that would fuck the situation up, was the payment processor not recognizing the public IP address (or netblock - I can't imagine many would require a globally routable static from their ISP) the transactions were now coming from - if they even check for that. Might be more tricky if it's part of a huge national chain, and everything rides over MPLS (or whatever) back to their data center first (and the processor expects this). I was really more thinking about a Mom & Pop type joint, leasing a terminal from whoever. |
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Posted: 2/27/2019 9:25:47 PM EDT
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You only bath your kids once a week or something?
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Posted: 2/27/2019 9:26:42 PM EDT
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Who doesn't carry cash? At least $100 in case of situations like that. |
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Posted: 2/27/2019 9:29:57 PM EDT
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You should be a huge asshole, make a giant stink, storm out of there without paying like you're king of the world and then never come back. That will show them and also teach your kids a lesson on civility.
good job |
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Posted: 2/27/2019 9:44:01 PM EDT
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I’ve worked in corporate restaurants for about 10 years. We keep “knuckle busters” for just such occasions which are the old school manual credit card carbon copiers. They suck to use but it’s better than trying to keep a restaurant full of people hostage until the cc machine might or might not come back online.
If they don’t have a way to take your payment I’d say walk out and come back and pay at your convenience. |
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Posted: 2/27/2019 9:49:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Debit cards are a thing too. I've been to more businesses lately that do NOT take cash versus ones that do not or will not take debit/credit cards. Usually its smaller restaurants and retail venues that do not want to deal with the extra accounting and hassle of depositing cash when a debit or credit card everything is automated. Paladin |
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Posted: 2/27/2019 9:51:20 PM EDT
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Is been over an hour since OP made this thread and he hasn’t followed up.
He’d better have a really good excuse for us. This is bullshit.
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Posted: 2/27/2019 9:52:40 PM EDT
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I have an old school credit card imprinting machine at work for the event that the credit card machine goes down. Imprint, sign and give the customer a copy then manually key cards in when the machine gets up and going. Newer cards that can't be imprinted, we have a form they fill out with their credit card info. Email invoice/receipt copies to customers.
If a customer wants to give me money, I don't give a fuck about that machine working or not, I'm gonna figure out some way to take it. |
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Posted: 2/27/2019 9:52:44 PM EDT
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I’ve worked in corporate restaurants for about 10 years. We keep “knuckle busters” for just such occasions which are the old school manual credit card carbon copiers. They suck to use but it’s better than trying to keep a restaurant full of people hostage until the cc machine might or might not come back online. If they don’t have a way to take your payment I’d say walk out and come back and pay at your convenience. Bad planning by the general manager. |
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Posted: 2/27/2019 9:53:27 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/27/2019 9:53:54 PM EDT
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Oh internet is down? That means I get your goods and services free! Get real dude, your tender is not acceptable at the moment, either go get them the money you owe them or roll your sleeves up and get to washing some dishes.
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Posted: 2/27/2019 9:55:31 PM EDT
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You can run cards offline. It'll batch when internet comes back up. |
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Posted: 2/27/2019 9:55:54 PM EDT
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If they've got LTE coverage and I've got my bag with me, it's about 5 minutes of my time. That card reader WILL be on a network with Internet access. 
EDIT: Maybe 10 minutes, if the card machine has a static IP and I need to figure out their local subnet address. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I'm a network engineer. Step 1 would be "Get them enough temporary Internet access to process my transaction". If I have my laptop bag-o-tricks with me (I often do) and they point me to the back room where their shittastic router/switch/AP/modem lives, they're going to have Internet access. Until I leave.
EDIT: Maybe 10 minutes, if the card machine has a static IP and I need to figure out their local subnet address. |
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Posted: 2/27/2019 9:57:46 PM EDT
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Write a check?
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Posted: 2/27/2019 10:02:38 PM EDT
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Oh internet is down? That means I get your goods and services free! Get real dude, your tender is not acceptable at the moment, either go get them the money you owe them or roll your sleeves up and get to washing some dishes. I'm not saying that they should eat the costs due to a 15 minute outage, but most of the restaurant owners that I know would. They can't hold you hostage, and it isn't your responsibility to wait more than an acceptable time for them to correct it. If the business is running so tight that they can't cover the costs of the people that potentially check out in 15 minutes, then they need a backup source of accepting payments via credit card (square, old school impression slide, etc) |
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Posted: 2/27/2019 10:04:29 PM EDT
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This. Life rule. Cash works . Why do you need to eat on credit. |
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Posted: 2/27/2019 10:05:21 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: People younger than 50 *shrug* |
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Posted: 2/27/2019 10:05:41 PM EDT
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Really? no blading at 45 and shouting I will not be detained? Iv had that happen before, told them Id come back and pay later, they said no...
.. So I left, fuck um.. I gave them the chance to let me do the right thing, they declined, at that point its not my problem anymore its theirs...
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Posted: 2/27/2019 10:06:46 PM EDT
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I carry enough cash to buy two Hi points. You never know when you will need a throwaway.
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Posted: 2/27/2019 10:09:07 PM EDT
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A $50 dollar bill folds in half and fits in your phone case nicely. Never be without cash.
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Posted: 2/27/2019 10:10:46 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Can you give an actual instance or name a venue which does NOT take cash. Asking for a friend... Paladin I’ve visited a few places in the UP of Michigan (including one of the ski hills) that are cashless due to their (lack of) proximity to a local bank. |
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Posted: 2/27/2019 10:11:44 PM EDT
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There's a reason the numbers on a credit card are still embossed.
If they don't have enough sense to have a back-up credit card imprinter that uses the old style carbon paper charge slips under the counter...that's their fault. 
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Posted: 2/27/2019 10:14:59 PM EDT
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The supermarket here had that happen a few weeks ago.
They went over the store intercom telling people that the credit card processing was down. I saw a lot of griping, and I imagine they had a lot of people leave full carts of food behind, the workers would have to restock. That's why you should always have a backup plan; cash or check in this case. |
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Posted: 2/27/2019 10:16:18 PM EDT
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There's a reason the numbers on a credit card are still embossed. If they don't have enough sense to have a back-up credit card imprinter that uses the old style carbon paper charge slips under the counter...that's their fault. https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/images/pfchangs.jpg https://slate.com/business/2018/04/why-are-credit-card-numbers-on-the-back-of-the-card-now.html 
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Posted: 2/27/2019 10:16:29 PM EDT
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Ask for pen and paper and write a check. Don't forget your routing number.
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Posted: 2/27/2019 10:17:38 PM EDT
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There's a reason the numbers on a credit card are still embossed. And OP, if I was given the chance to surf Arfcom and sit in a restaurant, or go home and bathe the kids, that's an easy choice. |
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Posted: 2/27/2019 10:17:48 PM EDT
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They must have locked the doors and have everyone doing the dishes before they are herded into the basement rape room.
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Posted: 2/27/2019 10:20:37 PM EDT
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A grown ass man should ALWAYS have multiple ways to pay.
What the fuck is so difficult about carrying a $100 cash and 1 check? |
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Posted: 2/27/2019 10:20:41 PM EDT
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There's a reason the numbers on a credit card are still embossed. If they don't have enough sense to have a back-up credit card imprinter that uses the old style carbon paper charge slips under the counter...that's their fault. https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/images/pfchangs.jpg My credit card machine goes tits up, we have authorization forms that people can fill out with their credit card info. Then once the machine is up and going, we'll manually key in the card numbers and shred the forms afterwards. |
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Posted: 2/27/2019 10:21:12 PM EDT
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more than half the credit cards in my wallet are not embossed. https://slate.com/business/2018/04/why-are-credit-card-numbers-on-the-back-of-the-card-now.html https://compote.slate.com/images/2743d676-2750-4f57-a8ba-f44db7fc3de9.jpeg?width=780&height=520&rect=1560x1040&offset=0x0 Live and learn, huh?
Thanks. |
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