In Japan you can buy just about anything you would use a credit card or Yen to buy (actually that is true in many Asian countries, including Singapore where I lived for 10 years); Or back here in 'merica, we can even buy a Whopper at Burger King!

I have their business cards, but haven’t used their BLOCs.  

They'd be a partner and help provide solutions to operational challenges when scaling, we'd bring tech in like Breezeway for scheduling, give them a company card with spend limits to buy supplies, they even ended up landing a deal with a local laundromat to wash and fold there after-hours to make their lives and ours easier.Truly a win-win. 

They might be great, but we were only 9 minutes in before the conversations turned to "what credit card are you going to use."

What is the credit card merchant fee?  

And I can’t link a debit card from that bank.

Every day in the Facebook group, someone gets ripped off or stolen from by another "community member", and generally, the posts have an air of feigned positivity because he even alludes in the course material to the fact that if you share anything negative, you could be kicked out and lose your course dues. 

I don’t have a credit card or score by the way.

They could be here legally (visa, whatever) and waiting for their green card.

I bet you did not have that one in your bingo card...