Lets clarify some things here - customers PAY in any format they desire including CASH. The whole "businesses can choose what payment they accept" is utter rubbish including the notion of rejecting cash. Legal tender IS legal tender.

Lets put it another way in practical terms - I can take possession of a good or service and at the end of which I can place CASH to that amount on their counter and walk away. The business has NO cause for any action after this and is deemed to have been paid. If any business wants to disagree - try this: have them call the Police afterwards and explain that a customer paid with a method that didn't accept. Then wait for the Police to tell you off for wasting their time and hanging up (as they should) !

Customers and only customers have the right to choose payment methods and business will learn (the hard way if need be) to accept that. The old notion still rings true: the customer is always right. Business (especially in tough times which are about to worsen) need to be grateful for custom and NOT the other way around.

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As a landlord I was not impressed to discover my property manager was outsourcing their rental payments and therefore forcing the tenants to pay a fee to pay their rent (80¢-$5/payment). I fired the agency and moved my property to another agency because of it. The trouble is, how many landlords know about it? I only found out because I gave my tenant my direct contact details. I feel it is something that should have to be disclosed to landlords when they sign up for property management so we can make an informed decision whether extra fees is something we're willing to have our tenants pay.

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