hello guys and gals...........
how about using a PRE-PAID card ? If a train costs 500 dollars and get the pre-paid card and put 525 dollars in it just enough to cover the card fees and shipping fees if purchasing out of home state you living in such as ordering online. I make sure that the pre-paid card does not required my SS number. So far i never had any problems of hackers. Any down side of using the pre-paid card , i think not.
the woman who loves toy trains
Tiffany
Pre-paid cards aren't free. There is a fee. Why turn good 100% usable cash into 97% plastic?
I find "Coinstar" machines pretty amazing. If someone had approached me with that business model, I have to say I would not give it much chance for success. You pour money into a machine and rely on it to correctly count it and it gives you back 91,1 cents for every dollars worth of change it counts.
I put change in a jar and every few months I roll it up and take it to the bank for cash. Usually somewhere between forty and sixty dollars. I walked into a bank for a meeting and in my briefcase I had rolls of coins to redeem after the meeting. The clients assistant spotted the rolls when I opened it to retrieve some files and asked "You roll up coins?"
Of course I do.
"I wouldn't waste my time, I just drop them in the machine."
There's a sucker born every minute.