Jay Honeck wrote:

For sure. One returned check for a $150 fill up will eat up more than a
month's worth of the 3% they'd be paying to have a credit card machine.
Which, of course, they could pass along to their customers, as do we all.

Maybe you would do that, but they have the N-number and check number, and in
many States, bouncing a check falls under the fraud statutes. Bounce one in
Tennessee and fail to make it good (with penalties) within ten days, and you're
looking at 2 to 10 years. And they *will* extradite.

George Patterson
There's plenty of room for all of God's creatures. Right next to the
mashed potatoes.