• @[email protected]
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    151 year ago

    It honestly surprises me that many merchants still accept checks, given that they won’t verify immediately.

    • Echo Dot
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      41 year ago

      I think if you look old and world weary enough they probably figured that you don’t know how to bounce them.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      They do verify immediately in many places. The cash register scans the check, extracts the bank routing and account numbers, and does an EFT transaction on the spot.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          Yeah. Then they hand the paper check back to you. (I haven’t written a check, or seen anyone write a check, at a store in many years, but that’s how it was working the last time I did see it.)