[quote=spdrun]I try to avoid crap-carding and pay cash for transactions below a few hundred
(a) crap-cards and their fees screw over smaller merchants
(b) officially or not, a lot of the smaller merchants give cash discounts[/quote]

Yeah, because chances are if you pay cash, they aren’t ringing into the register and reporting it on income too 🙂

Smaller merchants that really felt that they are being screwed over shouldn’t be accepting credit cards or should tell folks to buy a minimum (even though techically not allowed).

I’ll still to my CC 5% reward or 3% costco reward, thank you.. And especially if I hate a bigger merchant like *cough* walmart, nothing gives me more satisfaction than buying a stick of gum on a credit card….