I dream of making a big purchase with cash. Specifically a point zero Halliburton briefcase full of $100's. But modern banking laws make such things just about impossible.

Why does the man have to rain on my dream, is taking $200,000 in cash so wrong in the 21st century.



I was born to late, can't do anything with flair anymore!

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

That's how Koreans come to the states when they are shooting a commercial here. Everybody gets paid in cash, no joke.

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1979 Black on Black, 300CD (sold), 1990 Black 300SE, Silver 1989 Volvo 780, 1988 300CE (vanished by the hands of a girlfriend), 1992 300CE (Rescue).

I was once in a vault in Long Beach where a bunch of office supplies were being stored. I remarked about how expensive office supplies must be out there.

I was told the building once belonged to an oil trader, and up until WW 2 any tanker Captain that bought in oil from the Far East demanded payment in gold. You were not allowed to own gold then, but if you needed it for business transactions you could get it.

One reason a lot of people don't want to take serious cash these days is because it could be fake. There is also the fact that the buyer knows you have serious money in your house so it could be robbed away from you just hours after you had received it.

There is, and has been for many years, a law about reporting transactions involving more than $10,000 cash to.... Well, I don't really know since I have never done it.

Gold bars are also good but so hard to deal in these days.

Mr. 600 credit score can lease an S550, but if you try to buy one with a gold bar you are a criminal!

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

Just go buy a big bag of drugs. The dealers dont take visa.

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1984 300SD Orient Red/ Palomino
1989 560SEC
2016 Mazda 6 6 speed manual
1995 Ford F-150 reg cab 4.9 5speed manual

Good idea, but I don't deal in drugs.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

Its 2011, digital transaction, no need to carry cash....its a lot hard to get mugged for a login to an account in your head than to have a case of cash forcefully taken away.

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'15 GLK250 Bluetec 118k - mine - (OC-123,800)
'17 Metris(VITO!) - 37k - wifes (OC-41k)
'09 Sprinter 3500 Winnebago View - 62k (OC - 67k)
'13 ML350 Bluetec - 95k - dad's (OC-98k)
'01 SL500 - 103k(km) - dad's (OC-110,000km)
'16 E400 4matic Sedan - 148k - Brothers (OC-155k)

When I bought my motorcycle this summer I had to carry 26 one hundred dollar bills to the site of the transaction. It made me a little nervous.

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Whoever said there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes never had a cheap Jaguar.

83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 400,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 22,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.

Which modern banking laws do you speak of?

Or marry this girl: "Tamara Ecclestone is rolling in the dough, literally.

The heiress daughter of Formula 1 chief Bernie Ecclestone, was living out the penchant that every broke person hopes to indulge in if they ever come contact with a million dollars; roll around in it butt nekkid!"

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And as a bonus she must be really into fast cars.

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1979 Black on Black, 300CD (sold), 1990 Black 300SE, Silver 1989 Volvo 780, 1988 300CE (vanished by the hands of a girlfriend), 1992 300CE (Rescue).

I would but my wife would be PISSED.

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- Brian


1989 500SEL Euro
1966 250SE Cabriolet
1958 BMW Isetta 600

NOT illegal, just needs to be reported.

same in Australia. I regularly work with 10 or 20 gorillas in cash. When the bank asks what I am doing with it, I always say settling a drug debt. They dont like writing that on the tax office form.
I once paid cash for a house. At settlement, the guys broker thought I would have a bank check, should have seen the look when I pulled out a couple of large rolls of 100's (largest note in Australia). Took him for ever to count it.
As soon as you do a cash transaction the paper trail ends.

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I no longer question authority, I annoy authority. More effect, less effort....

1967 230-6 auto parts car. rust bucket.
1980 300D now parts car 800k miles
1984 300D 500k miles
1987 250td 160k miles English import
2001 jeep turbo diesel 130k miles
1998 jeep tdi ~ followed me home. Needs a turbo.
1968 Ford F750 truck. 6-354 diesel conversion.
Other toys ~J.D.,Cat & GM ~ mainly earth moving

Back when I sold new cars for a while in the 90's I had a customer with a shoe box full of cash. There wasn't enough cash in the shoe box when he actually got around to counting it, so he made a phone call and had another shoe box delivered.

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