Reply #17: Look, if you want to let a mega company freeze your cash

[cornermouse]

then do it and be happy. Personally I pay cash for most things that aren't bills and if the few things I do pay for ever start freezing my bank account, you can bet your sweet bippy that I'll be shopping somewhere else next time around.

Wal-Mart now does the instant check thing. I stopped shopping there.

My old regular gas station did the cash first thing. I found a station that still did things the old fashioned way and now buy all my regular travel gas there.

And I currently have NO plans to ever go shopping again in Kansas City since they passed an all stations must be paid before pumping law.

I'll be darned if I'll spend my money in any store or station where I'm basically being accused of being a potential thief and treated accordingly without ever having committed a crime.