Originally Posted by
bostontraveler
To each his own and of course one has the right to pay in cash. But in most countries in the world this is considered a cost of doing business. Apparently given the responses here Australians are so used to this practice it doesn't seem to bother anyone.. but it seems quite tacky in my opinion.
FWIW, I'm an Australian and I agree completely, but there's little you can do about it. It's just the economies of scale in the US (and the penetration of Amex) that make this possible there and not here. The alternate is that they just don't accept Amex at all.