[flexer2]

I had a cab driver do this to me once, in 2016 or so. He dropped me off at the destination and told me it’d be $20 or whatever, cash only. I didn’t have cash on me, and said all I had was a card. He demanded that I prove I had no cash. Being a little dumbstruck and just wanting to get away from him I showed my empty wallet and he begrudgingly pulled out a phone with a square reader on it. Left a very sour taste in my mouth about cabs.

It’s no surprise why Uber/Lyft are eating their lunch.

[teeray]

Lifehack: offer to call the cab company on speakerphone and pay with a credit card over the phone. This usually causes the in-cab CC readers to start working again.

[TheChaplain]

As I mentioned above, transaction fees are a killer on already thin margins. And in some states it's illegal to add a charge for the credit card transaction.

[Kalium]

As I understand it, that's often grounds for the merchant account provider to yank your ability to accept cards at all.

[rhcom2]

In NYC if you even mention the TLC their card machines will start working very quickly.