What's the point of paying with a check?
What's the point of paying with a check?
isn't it like a debit card with extra steps? at a store I mean
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In the bad old days a check was as good as a wave and a promise, so they’d require your drivers license, ssn, mothers maiden name, blood sample, a lien on your firstborn and you’d have to stand on one leg and sing the alphabet song with your eyes closed before they’d take it.
Like…. when? In the 70s and 80s checks were widely accepted and at most they’d ask for an ID. After that, it tightened up do to various types of fraud, so I guess you mean after the 90s.
In the 70s. By the 80s checks were more accepted from everyone, but try being a single mother in the 70s and use a check at some places, while a guy probably wouldn't have as much trouble. They did often ask for two forms of ID, the second usually a CC to I guess prove that you have some credit worth. It was a huge hassle if you were in the wrong demographic.
Source: saw my mother go through that shit often as a kid
I also recently learned that women weren't issued credit cards until 1974, when a Federal bill prohibited discrimination in banking. Fairly absurd.