Observations on the current state of the hobby from a show this weekend

[notfast]

Originally Posted by pewe

I guess the challenge with cash, and why most business moved away from it include:
-- buyer: you need to have enough when you discover something unexpected you want to buy
-- seller: you miss out on sales to people who don't use cash or don't have enough for something that they could cover digitally
-- you are a target to have it stolen (and not just by an external thief... if you have employees, the graft and shrinkage can be material)
-- you need to make extra trips to/from a bank to deal with it
-- accounting is a pain and probably much more costly

Cash will always be king at card shows.