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You can't pay with cash on the Internet, though.



Where I'm from you can. There are services that give you a code and then you go to some store that offers the service and hand the cash. Similar to what you can do with Western Union


Cash in the literal sense, sure. But not the practical sense, where it is more a euphemism for “no middleman”.


I pay for things from China using Brazilian Pix quite often.


The easy solution is to not buy things on the internet. I can’t think of the last thing I bought online.


(which is a money saving trick in an of itself: if buying X thing requires you to get up and move your body to the store and look at it and pick it up and check out and haul it back, you’re going to buy a lot less things than if all you have to do is move your index finger 0.25mm once. This is why Amazon made with one click purchasing, to the extent people paid amzn for a license to implant “buying it now”)


Not buying things on the Internet is not a great solution for when you want to buy things on the Internet.


Doctor, it hurts when I put a gun to my foot and pull the trigger.

Don’t… do… that…?

But I want to!


Are you lost? Why are you on this website?




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