I live in Canada so I would prefer a Canadian law answer, but I wouldent mind hearing the law in the U.S.
2006-08-03 15:48:57 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
O.K., great answers, but if you where to try to pay your rent with cash and you Landlord refuses could you just not pay your rent and then when you get sued for it you just tell the judge that they refused to take your legal tender as payement, so your not paying?
2006-08-03 16:08:08 · update #1
Here in the US, from what I understand it is illegal for a business NOT to accept cash as payment. A lot of people do not know this, but even apartment complexes CAN NOT refuse a cash payment. It is legal US money...well here in the states anyways.
2006-08-03 15:54:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
absolutely a store can refuse to take your money! I have refused customers lots of times. Usually because the money was from a different country, was counterfit, or in one case because it was covered in blood! Also up until a few years ago there was a $1000 bill, and that was nearly impossible to cash (that's why it isn't available anymore.) Just because it is legal tender means nothing. I would refuse the 50 piece too mostly because I am not familiar with it, and don't know if it really has a value. I don't know why I would bother taking it. I'm not a coin dealer! Take the coin in and trade it for regular money!
2016-03-26 22:22:48 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
FunlivingMisanthrope and JohnE are correct.
The store is not under any obligation to do business with you.
However, what they cannot do (in the US) is agree to a transaction, but refuse to take cash because they do not consider it valid payment. The cash is legally considered valid tender (offer) of payment "for all debts, public and private".
So, they can refuse to do business at all, but if the do business, they must accept cash as payment.
2006-08-03 16:01:10 · answer #3 · answered by coragryph 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have no idea what the legal wonks would pull out of thin air, but in pure logical and ethical terms, no other human is compelled to even do business with you, much less quibble over you bringing in sacks of coins and making the employees count them
i hope the legality still matches up with basic common sense (does it?)
edit - a court here recently refused a man's payment of a speeding ticket with pennies, citing the labor cost to count them; i hope what is good for bureaucrats is also good for the rest of us
2006-08-03 15:55:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a business has the right to refuse service to anyone. they do not have to do business with you just like you do not have to do business with them.
so do your business elsewhere and they will be the ones that lose.
2006-08-03 15:57:03 · answer #5 · answered by justnotright 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, they can choose with whom and how they conduct business
2006-08-03 15:54:53 · answer #6 · answered by cherokeeflyer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋