Send cash via text or email

[Gump]

Pretty slick...Sorry if a re-post.

 

https://square.com/cash

[BadTrainDriver]

Try it. PM me for my number. Send me some and I'll let you know how it works.

[Gump]

You send me some and I'll tell you if it works.

It works, be good for kids in college, close friends, family, private deals, et cetera.

[BadTrainDriver]

No, you send first. I asked first.

Why not just use Paypal?

[Gump]

? Is PayPal that simple via an app?

 

*not being a smart ass, I really don't know. I've used pp before but not in the manner of this App.

Edited October 24, 2014 by Gump

[smccrory]

There are going to be SO many options for mobile/quick payments in the next year.  Looks like this one is pretty straightforward.  I would expect PayPal to have to simplify their flow and give up some holding interest income as a result.

[BadTrainDriver]

Yes, PP haS a very simple app. All I need is your phone number or email address. If we had compatible phones, we could even "bump".

[Steve Butters]

Square is anti second amendment and there's no way I'd use their services

In an alert regarding a change of terms, Square notified vendors:

…you will not accept payments in connection with the following businesses or business activities: …sales of (i) firearms, firearm parts or hardware, and ammunition; or (ii) weapons and other devices designed to cause physical injury.

http://dailysignal.com/2014/09/25/gun-shop-owners-longer-hip-square/

Edited October 25, 2014 by Steve Butters

[smccrory]

That's a sobering reminder, thanks Butters. That should be just as unacceptable to anti-gunners, because if you can exclude lawful firearm commerce, you can do it to anything else otherwise allowed by law.

[Gump]

I tried it, my brother sent me $5, then I deleted the app. Lol.

Good catch butters. I'll write their CIO a letter.

[smccrory]

Looks like Square doesn't like a lot of other things also: https://squareup.com/help/en-us/article/5089-prohibited-goods-and-services-with-square-register

 

• Any illegal activity or goods
• Buyers or membership clubs, including dues associated with such clubs
• Credit counseling or credit repair agencies
• Credit protection or identity theft protection services
• Direct marketing or subscription offers or services
• Infomercial sales
• Internet/mail order/telephone order pharmacies or pharmacy referral services (where fulfillment of medication is performed with an Internet or telephone consultation, absent a physical visit with a physician including re-importation of pharmaceuticals from foreign countries)
• Unauthorized multi-level marketing businesses
• Inbound or outbound telemarketers
• Prepaid phone cards or phone services
• Rebate based businesses
• Up-sell merchants
• Bill payment services
• Betting, including lottery tickets, casino gaming chips, off-track betting, and wagers at races
• Financial institutions offering manual or automated cash disbursements
• Prepaid cards, checks or other financial merchandise or services
• Sales of money-orders or foreign currency by non-financial institutions
• Wire transfer money orders
• High-risk products and services, including telemarketing sales
• Service station merchants
• Automated fuel dispensers
• Adult entertainment oriented products or services (in any medium, including Internet, telephone or printed material)
• Sales of (i) firearms, firearm parts or hardware, and ammunition; or (ii) weapons and other devices designed to cause physical injury
• Internet/mail order/telephone order cigarette or tobacco sales
• Drug paraphernalia
• Occult materials
• Hate or harmful products
• Escort services
• Bankruptcy attorneys or collection agencies engaged in the collection of debt

It's really a bizarre list that puts Square squarely in the seat of arbitrary interpretation.  Like, "harmful products" - that SHOULD include soda, solvents, rodent poisons, weed killer, bug killer, motorcycles...  And "Occult materials" - does that mean books about Mormonism, Wicca, Ouija Boards and Dungeons and Dragons cards are prohibited?  And "Adult Entertainment" - would that include instructional materials, or only things Square discerns as smut?

 

F#%^ Square.  If they want to be in the business of deciding what I can and can't use it for, then I'll go with instant-pay options provided by a real FI (financial institution). 

[Strictly Street]

 

F#%^ Square.  If they want to be in the business of deciding what I can and can't use it for, then I'll go with instant-pay options provided by a real FI (financial institution).

 

It's "Operation Choke Point" sponsored by the Holder Justice Dept.

Gun shops are being denied the ability to process credit cards as well. It's not just 'Square'.

 

A 'Real FI' can/will deny the option of payment to the store as well. Cash only at some stores.

Of course cash means your a drug dealer and the cops get to steal your money 'cause 'Public Safety'  forfeiture.

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Operation+Choke+Point

 

Added link

Edited October 26, 2014 by Strictly Street