Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 10:06:12 -0400
From: D
Subject: Businesses have the right to not accept Plenty
The post by Matthew Rudolf of Piedmont biofuels (re: chattlist 3430, Antonella’s not accepting Plenty) will do more harm than good; every business has the right to accept/not accept the plenty. I can guarantee that more businesses do NOT accept the plenty than DO. I’ve heard of the many hassles it causes (extra time spent on a separate accounting system (to
reconcile daily = more labor spent = lost revenue), the extra time spent having to go to two banks rather than one, making change is a nightmare, and more along those lines…
As far as your comment that business could always “pay your employees a percentage of their wages in Plenty’s, so there will always be a means to offload them” is ridiculous. Does Piedmont biofuels pay their employees with the Plenty? Can you pay your electric, gas, telephone bill with the Plenty? As much as I love the shops listed on the Plenty website, I rarely have the need for their services/products, what good would the Plenty be for me; and by the way, yes I could “off load them”, as you say, at Capital Bank, but who can afford a 10% loss on anything?
The Plenty is an excellent idea, but it NOT be PUSHED upon a business to participate!!
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