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Working cash? Is there a lack of credit card accepting merchants in DF?

Nope...but, as in eastern Europe, having a card is little or no protection.
When you authorize a card, you have little ground for chargeback UNLESS
you can prove that there was something unorthodox in the transaction.

Now, if the three drinks were charged at $1000, and you put it on your card,
can you say that you didn't drink them? That the price was unfair?

I dont know. I could easily see that you would be as humped if you had to
put the grand on the card as if you were shaken down for the cash.

Anecdotally, I was stopped in _Venezuela once by some highway cops that
made some bogus claims about my driving. I had my family with me. I had no
choice but to give them my cash, but I decided that the next time this
happens...
if I am alone....I will press the issue. And it did happen again...my
American boss
was with me, so I told him to get out and get a taxi, because I was going to
jail.

I was harrassed, threatened, ridiculed, and mistreated, but I told them that
they
could take the car if they wanted (it was a rental)....but I wanted to go to
jail.

More threatening, BS... I insisted to be taken to jail... They got nervous
(who
does this musiu know?) Finally, they irritatedly flagged me on.

Pricks like this prey on people who they think are afraid. They abuse their
office.

Luckily, my friend can afford the loss, and he can write it up as
'lærepenger' (tuition,
or the cost of learning).