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Is Cash No Longer Legal Tender?

Posted by Cliff on from the plastic-now-worth-more-than-paper dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "I attend the University of Illinois at Chicago. Last semester my housing arrangements went smoothly. I put down my application fee, and my deposit just fine, got a room for the semester and life went on. This semester, because there was supposedly a large number of students who did not check into their rooms last semester, we were required to make a $100 prepayment, in addition to the application fee and deposit. No problem, I think, I see the university is trying to make a quick buck off people who don't follow through with their plans. Now I do NOT have a checking account, a credit card, or anything. I don't trust the banks, or the credit card companies, so I am one of the few people who do EVERYTHING in cash. However, they refused to take the cash. Is it legal for a state-owned university, let alone any business to not take legal tender?" The housing department also will not charge my university account (so I can pay the bursar or whoever I need to) in cash, and they want a check or money order. Nowhere in their letter did they say that. I fear out of technicality I am going to loose my housing since I cannot get them their money on time because they do not take cash.

What can I do?"

3 of 719 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Wow... by SLi · · Score: 0, Troll

    Funny that you should talk about 3rd world countries when your banking system (WTF, you actually still use checks?) is the most ancient in the first world.

  2. Re:I work at the IRS by aminorex · · Score: 0, Troll

    > Posting anon, for obvious reasons.

    Because obviously no one would ever tolerate you again, as long as you live, once they found out that you once worked for the IRS?

    Or because obviously you anticipate death threats, stalkers, polonium in the toothpaste, snipers....?

    Or because obviously you're just making this stuff up?

    Personally, I find the word "obvious" to be only rarely correct.

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  3. Re:I work at the IRS by Lehk228 · · Score: 0, Troll

    what the hell does one bureaucratic cocksucker half a century ago ago have to do with treating an IRS clerk like shit because you are a childish douchebag?

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