Credit cards at the gate for entry....what is the problem ??

[Carl Weisinger]

Thanks to everyone that has shown up to race this weekend. A little rain yesterday but now is real nice. High 60's today and clear as can be.

It's true we don't take plastic for payment of admission and entry fees. And, we don't pay with plastic either. We've had the lease on Orlando Speed World Dragway for 25 years and have always paid with cash unless a out of area racer left without picking up their prize money. In that case we will send a check. Heck, what ruffles my feathers is places that won't take my cash!

Messing with credit cards is one inconvenience we simply choose not to pay for.

Good luck y'all.

Carl

[442OLDS]

Originally Posted by Carl Weisinger

Heck, what ruffles my feathers is places that won't take my cash!

Messing with credit cards is one inconvenience we simply choose not to pay for.

Good luck y'all.

Carl

There are some tollways in Illinois that have tolls at some exits with CASH UNACCEPTABLE for payment.Never understood how this could be "legal" .

[Michael Beard]

Originally Posted by 442OLDS

There are some tollways in Illinois that have tolls at some exits with CASH UNACCEPTABLE for payment.Never understood how this could be "legal" .

I have a dollar bill here that says "THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE". 'Course it's an older bill. Maybe the trillions in unbacked currency they've printed in recent years no longer carries that statement.

[442OLDS]

I should have stated that clearer.There are a few exits where CASH/COIN is NOT accepted at all.



A $36 million interchange at Eola Road in Aurora opened on November 20, 2009 after approximately ten years of planning and less than one year of actual construction. It is the first set of ramp toll booths which accept only I-Pass users without providing for cash tolls.

[NewHemi]

Could it be that they get a kickback from i-pass???

David
The New Hemi Guy

[boster]

Carl , nice post but in most business the customer is always right . In this day most people dont carry cash and most prefer plastic or debit . Its the same as cash and has been proven to help business not hurt it .

By the looks of the car count you could have used a few more cars . If you need a good card processor let me know . Current rates are about 1.86%

[Terry Cain]

Originally Posted by boster

Carl , nice post but in most business the customer is always right . In this day most people dont carry cash and most prefer plastic or debit . Its the same as cash and has been proven to help business not hurt it .

By the looks of the car count you could have used a few more cars . If you need a good card processor let me know . Current rates are about 1.86%

X2
When my daughter started doing hair she was completely dependant on "walk-in" customers. The first time I went and got my hair cut (what littles left) I noticed out of 10 booths no one was accepting credit cards. The following week whe got her setup to accept cards and WAM her business took off. Seems everyone wanted to go to her because she was the only one accepting cards. Now half the girls there are accepting cards but, she's got her client's built up because woman don't want to go to someone different.

[Dwight Southerland]

Terry - Your story is exactly why there is a double-edged sword. If some little guy was making money off the cc charges, it would be okay. What I have seen in my working in the industry is that the small innovators who got the whole electronic transaction processing business going have been forced out of business by federal regulations that make it so that only the huge financial insitutions can own the network. Now it's just a way for the big to get bigger and we pay for it. It's like the recent mortgage settlement for $25 billion; additional fees are being placed on mortgage processing and payment transactions by the very institutions who were "punished". We end up paying for their settlement. Or trying to tax corporations to somehow make it "fair". They just tack on the expense onto the market prices and we pay for it.

I am glad it helped your daughter. There just needs to be some honesty in the banking world. Just like there needs to be honesty in sportsman drag racing.

Still on my soap box, sorry!

[Woodro Josey]

Silver Dollar takes credit cards!

[Ed Wright]

The only track I had problems using a card at the gate was an IHRA race at State Capitol, at Baton Rouge. I use mine all the time with no problems. Used it there, just had to ride to the main spectator gate with an official to process it. Said they had no phone line to the entrant's booth. Told them they just need a wireless card for a laptop. Since I've seen a cel phone with a card swiping fixture on the end. Makes no sense to not take cards at the pit gate. Many of us prefer to not carry that much cash. I could not run my business if we did not take cards. Today that is just part of doing business.