We don't accept Travelers Checks.....or Money Orders

[SG15Z]

I don't understand about the traveler's checks. How come a lot of businesses aren't accepting them anymore?
I can understand money orders, but I thought the selling point on travelers checks was that they are as good as cash.

I don't understand it either. I know my company does, but many don't anymore. I always wondered about that.

[jackfaire]

Maybe it has to do with the conversion rates?

[Ree]

I don't understand about the traveler's checks. How come a lot of businesses aren't accepting them anymore?
I can understand money orders, but I thought the selling point on travelers checks was that they are as good as cash.

Not everybody wants to use credit cards.

I would hate to be a tourist or on vacation, and shopping around, only to find my traveler's check isn't accepted where I want to shop.

As for all the cash in his wallet, that's really not my business.
Maybe he needed it for something else.

[Hon'ya-chan]

So I had this old fart bitch and moan because we don't accept Travelers Checks. Rather, I noticed he had a billfold of money, and below some of the notes, there was a Travelers check. I informed him of this fact, even thought we have signs pointing out this fact around the registers.

Nope, old fart has to make a stink out of it. Threatens to report us to AMEX over refusing to accept Travelers Checks. Heck, he even questions if we take Money orders (FACT: We Don't.) Hey, my superiors refuse to accept Travelers Checks, it's their right as Businessmen. Betcha AMEX is gonna tell him the same thing as well (business has right to accept what they want), and maybe try to upsell him the AMEX Check Card.

Gee, if I only gave him the lowdow on US Currency....I think i'd sent the poor bastard into an early grave.