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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I really thought they closed this loophole like a year ago! I guess not.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1081 Posts |
I'm out of the loop, what was the loophole?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3294 Posts |
You get airline points for spending on your CC, but you were "spending" to get CC changed into $$.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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This will be the beginning of the end for the Direct Ship program  I think it is absolutely absurd to not even allow the use of debit cards that take money from a checking account. Of course, the Mint would never think of using a service like PayPal either. |
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 United States
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Talk about overkill. I wonder why they could not have these purchases treated as cash advances.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
623 Posts |
What if you buy mint gift certificates with your credit card and then use them to pay for the dollars?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
5832 Posts |
There's always a loophole, especially the government. Edit: Just read that paragraph from the mint again. Wire transfer, check or money order. Perhaps that's the only form of payment.  Edited by macmercury
07/22/2011 4:52 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Russ789 you....you...you are good! Sorry I just watched it last night. But SSSHHHH its a secret! I thought they lowered the limit one could buy between x amount of calendar days. Of course the few that abuse ruin it for everyone. Such is life.
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Valued Member
United States
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I hope that attention-[blank] at berkley that thought it'd be more fun to get interviewed by NPR instead of taking "trips around the world" is happy that she's done taking trips around the world. What a goofball.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Here's the full explanation: http://catalog.usmint.gov/webapp/wc...ntifier=8100I especially like the sentence: Quote:
Eliminating the credit and debit card purchase of the $1 coin is the next step in our efforts to root out abuse in this program and ensure it is better targeted toward fulfilling its intended purpose--which is to get the $1 Coin into greater circulation. Get a clue mint - if you want to increase circulation of the dollar coin then eliminate the paper dollar.  Problem solved! |
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Valued Member
United States
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I agree eliminate the dollar bill and these coins will circulate just fine and the country will save money too.
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Valued Member
United States
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Yeah, I don't get why the mint/fed/whoever thinks that the people will begin rioting if we can't have paper dollars.
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Valued Member
United States
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Well that sucks. I wish I had more notice to put in one last order. I've been getting and spending coins from direct ship for a couple of years now and really liked that I could get different coins than my bank has.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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It's like with the metric system. They tried to do it in a slow, half-witted, gradual way, and people were stubborn. Just pull of the band-aid quickly.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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And without pulling the paper dollar bills, its pointless. And it's probably too late now anyway... people use plastic for anything and everything these days. Besides pulling out some cash from the ATM to buy a box of pennies, I cannot remember the last time I used cash for anything. Sad, but true. We live in a world of speed and convenience, and credit/debit cards are making coins unnecessary and obsolete.
Les
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