I know that you can't pay cash to buy an iPad at the Apple store, they won't sell it to you. I'm not sure if PadGadget is correct about the reasons. iPad Purchase Limits Confirmed "Apple requires you to buy your iPads via a debit or credit card, no cash allowed, so they can track your purchase history, in case you are thinking about coming back several times in order to get more than 2."
Can Apple not accept cash? My money does say "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private". I'm guessing this is illegal.
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The catch here is that it's not a debt, it's a retail transaction. If you had some sort of Apple store-brand credit card, bought something on it and wanted to pay cash (assuming they accept payments for the store card in-store like an old-fashioned department store does) then they cannot refuse to accept the cash.
They can refuse to take it at retail, however. I wouldn't be surprised if the supposition about Apple's reasons is correct, they don't want people selling them outside the markets where Apple is offering them.
A guy supposedly got banned from Apple stores for scalping iPads: http://consumerist.com/2010/04/apple-bans-man-from-ever-buying-another-ipad.html
The catch here is that it's not a debt, it's a retail transaction. If you had some sort of Apple store-brand credit card, bought something on it and wanted to pay cash (assuming they accept payments for the store card in-store like an old-fashioned department store does) then they cannot refuse to accept the cash.
They can refuse to take it at retail, however. I wouldn't be surprised if the supposition about Apple's reasons is correct, they don't want people selling them outside the markets where Apple is offering them.
A guy supposedly got banned from Apple stores for scalping iPads: http://consumerist.com/2010/04/apple-bans-man-from-ever-buying-another-ipad.html
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Crazy why it double posts.
I knew this sounded familiar but had forgotten they did this with the iPhone too and I blogged almost the same thing 2.5 years ago.
I guess web sites don't take cash either.
you see they changed their policy AND gave a poor lady a free iPad because she had no credit cards to pay with? I shoulda thought of that.
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