If the dealer where I pay for a car runs a needless credit check, I would walk. They do NOT need to run any credit check on a cash sale. Even if you arranged your own financing, to them it's a cash sale. Unless I REALLY wanted that particular car, I would tell him if he runs an unnecessary credit check I'm not buying the car. And so my SSN is none of his business. Heck, I don't even give out my cell number to anyone.

zep - I did google it, copied to a doc and saved it for reference. I check out a few things about changing the battery and what can happen. It said you can lose your custom bios settings. I have no idea what those would be - will look that up later. hmmm... I guess I could shut it down and see what happens... it'd have to be off 24 hrs to lose a day on it - right? so it'd take a few nights off to lose a day... I'm not sure how that'd work since the time on it was correct. maybe I should ask Dell that question!

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@Patrick Keohane - I have years of posting here to back up my claims and so the people on this forum can decide for themselves. Your example simply shows why you should not be commenting on this thread. My father owned a plumbing company with someone else's name on it. He first joined as a minority partner and later became the managing partner, the person whose name was on the company eventually left altogether. So let's use your example, as I am sure you are aware, LLC's are a durable business entity. Therefore, using your example, Billy's Bob can admit new members to the LLC at will. So Suppose Billy Bob has a cash shortage and offers his brother-in-law Willy Rob a 20% share of Billy Bob's Badass Remodeling, LLC. He is no longer a single member LLC but because it is a durable business entity, he typically doesn't have to file anything new (we might want to note that LLC's are State entities and not Federal so each state may have different rules but I am not aware of any State requiring a refiling when admitting a new member, so it doesn't matter what he writes under it). So now, Billy Bob isn't the sole owner of Billy Bob's Badass Remodelling, LLC. Now suppose Nancy signs a contract with Billy Bob's Badass Remodelling, LLC. to remodel her home, but she makes out checks to Billy Bob rather than the LLC. Willy Rob finds out about this and is upset because Billy Bob has not been giving him his share and goes to see his uncle who is an attorney. The uncle, realizing that Billy Bob is judgment proof, sues Nancy instead for breach of contract for not paying the company as she agreed to in the contract. Nancy is clearly in breach of contract and will have to pay, she, of course, can turn around and sue Billy Bob for his theft but we already noted Billy Bob is judgment proof. I can assure you that I am correct but you are likely not going to see that because you seem to believe that your relatively myopic experience with your two businesses gives you a complete picture. The reality is that you are not an expert on small businesses, you are an expert on your small business... and that in no way qualifies you to comment on business law. I believe you are making the point that if an employee/owner can accept cash, then that same employee/owner could accept a check that he converts to cash. While that seems perfectly logical it is not correct, checks are assignable financial instruments and cash is not. It really has to do with due care... a business is negligent in their duty if they let anyone accept cash, you are negligent in your duty if you assign a check to someone who is not authorized in the contract. ETA: I am not going to respond further to this thread. It was dead and buried before the resurrection and there is no reason to bring it back from the dead for this rant. I have thoroughly explained one of the reasons that you want to write checks to the contracted entity and that alone is enough to overcome your assertion. Meanwhile the only retort is ad hominem attacks. You have offered no rebuttal to any of my points just pretended that attacking my credibility is sufficient to ignore those points. My argument doesn't rely on credentials to be correct. So feel free to explain why I am wrong if you can.