Originally Posted by
Lambkin55
I just when to my LBS to pick up a wheel I had made. They told me they do not accept personal checks. They only deal in cash and credit cards.
Is this a new thing in the bike world?
Does your LBS accept personal checks?
Nope. Current shop doesn't take check, last shop I was at stopped taking them in probaly 2012.
Originally Posted by
Rolla
Checks have by-and-large been replaced by electronic/digital payment methods in the retail world; it has little to do with whether the merchant is a bike shop.
^This^
Originally Posted by
veganbikes
We don't take checks and my old shop didn't take checks. Checks are a good way to do fraudulent transactions. You can do a bank transfer or pay in cash these days or you have cards and apple/google pay and some places will also do things like PayPal or vendmo or cashapp.
I would not take checks from people if I owned a business I would much rather just have cash and make it easy peasy.
And ^this^.