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Apparently,  the number of cash transactions has gone up  for the first time in over a decade. 

Possibly due to  it being easier to budget (particularly during this cost of living crisis),  less chance of being scammed electronically, the ending of covid restrictions , or people realising a cashless society would give banks and governments  too much power etc etc.

Anyway, I just thought I'd  see how  much cash transactions the GAA Board  members use.


Also, do you have  any thoughts on the using  of cash? The push for a cashless society?  Your reasons for using  cash as much (or as little) as you do?

I put in 1-10% usage but its very much towards the 1% end of the scale. Cash obviously has its benefits but once you get used to using contactless payments it seems odd using cash in all honesty. Most things accept contactless payments now also.

Id imagine the majority of businesses/individuals who prefer cash are either ones who launder cash, i.e criminals, or ones who don't want to declare all their earnings for tax purposes.

Would have been close to 100% card/contactless. Making a conscious effort now to use cash only though so will be close to 100% cash in future I hope. Card fees are a killer for businesses.

Would tend to bring cash on holidays, that way I know what I've spent, physically lol! Tap most days for pure convenience would generally have a ton in wallet, just in case.

Restaurants, generally tap and pay tip in cash.

At pub try and use cash.

My kids wouldn't thank me for giving them cash, they never use cash for anything, no cards all phone usage

I'm just waiting on the conspiracy theories...

Minimal cash (1-10%). Predominantly I tap away in shops, pubs etc. Some local businesses and tradesmen are cash only and have no issue taking out cash when I know it's needed but keep some in the wallet "just in case". I tip in cash as I don't trust owners to pass them on if not entirely visible to staff.

Revolut, Uber app and a bit of cash on holidays.

I use  cash about 99% of the time.

I just find it   much easier to deal with. You know what you have , and  less chance of being scammed.

I usually pay the car/house insurance by card . Maybe book the summer holiday (Airbnb or campsite) as there's no other way , as it needs reserving in advance

I buy on  average 3 or 4 things a year  on eBay through card.  And maybe if  something went wrong with the car, or household appliance, I might  put that   on the card , and pay if off, if I don't have  the funds  at the time.

Other things like the odd match ticket, concert  ticket etc would be  put on card , as again, there might be   no alternative .

I'm about 50/50.
As they say, cash is king, but sometimes card is just far handier.
If it's grocery shop or paying for something in a big name chain Halford's or whatever, I pay card.
Bars and restaurants I always pay cash or at least always tip in cash.
I always end up taking out too much though and then feel the need to spend it all!

I must try to make a more conscious effort to use cash in my local coffee shop etc. The wee girls that work in look at you sideways if you give them cash, whereas the owner would no doubt encourage it!

Only when absolutely necessary (Chinese and barbers).
Use card 100% the rest of the time, usually contactless on the phone.
Hate using cash. I feel like do much of your cash ends up as coins left at your arse, whereas with contactless those extra coins never leave your account.

I don't understand the "I use cash because you know what you have" argument when you can have online banking on your phone.

Quote from: Tony Baloney on October 23, 2023, 08:28:31 PMI must try to make a more conscious effort to use cash in my local coffee shop etc. The wee girls that work in look at you sideways if you give them cash, whereas the owner would no doubt encourage it!

Was at the takeaway Recently .  woman went to pay with card,  but the machine was down. The ATM had been damaged,  and she had no cash. I says to her, the post office is still open, you might get  cash there (not sure how she faired out)

The two young girls working there,  said they rarely use cash, but I says  but it would pay off in a situation like this, wouldn't it?  They thought about it, and  one says "aye , right enough".

I'd like to think I  converted the two of them  to using cash , but I doubt it. Probably tapping away like  two eejits

Quote from: AustinPowers on October 23, 2023, 08:00:07 PMI use  cash about 99% of the time.

I just find it   much easier to deal with. You know what you have , and  less chance of being scammed.

I usually pay the car/house insurance by card . Maybe book the summer holiday (Airbnb or campsite) as there's no other way , as it needs reserving in advance

I buy on  average 3 or 4 things a year  on eBay through card.  And maybe if  something went wrong with the car, or household appliance, I might  put that   on the card , and pay if off, if I don't have  the funds  at the time.

Other things like the odd match ticket, concert  ticket etc would be  put on card , as again, there might be   no alternative .

99% but listed a lot that you pay by card?

It's near impossible to get things other than using card.

Cash in restaurants bar shop garage would be your lot.

One thing that's annoying is that to get into most championship games  (in Tyrone it's all) these days you have to pay by card only but once you are in the ground it's cash only if you want to buy a programme or go to the shop.

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Quote from: AustinPowers on October 23, 2023, 08:00:07 PMI use  cash about 99% of the time.

I just find it  much easier to deal with. You know what you have , and  less chance of being scammed.

I usually pay the car/house insurance by card . Maybe book the summer holiday (Airbnb or campsite) as there's no other way , as it needs reserving in advance

I buy on  average 3 or 4 things a year  on eBay through card.  And maybe if  something went wrong with the car, or household appliance, I might  put that  on the card , and pay if off, if I don't have  the funds  at the time.

Other things like the odd match ticket, concert  ticket etc would be  put on card , as again, there might be  no alternative .

99% but listed a lot that you pay by card?

Those card transactions  amounts to maybe 20-30 a year. If that. There are a few times a week where  I could  have 10-20 cash transactions daily.

QuoteIt's near impossible to get things other than using card.

Maybe a flight, concert ticket, hotel  etc , but most of your everyday products  can be got  with cash

QuoteCash in restaurants bar shop garage would be your lot.

Chinese is about the height of it

Quote from: Saffrongael on October 23, 2023, 09:20:10 PMChinese is about the height of it

Cause their machine is always broken  ;) like our local Indian takeout!

The chippy only recently got card reader recently

Strange food places were slower to convert lol

Unsure how you would be scammed tapping for things like drinks/ food, instant text alert to your phone to let you know how much you were just charged so would make it more difficult to scam I would have thought.

I'm sure those businesses relying on people paying card or cash will have this built into their pricing structure and I would say for the convenience most people happy to accept this.

As has been said above, those business which are cash only or encouraging cash have their own reasons for doing so  ;)

Quote from: imtommygunn on October 23, 2023, 06:28:22 PMI'm just waiting on the conspiracy theories...

That is why I dipped into the thread, but it is an interesting enough topic.

When you factor in Direct debits for the likes of the mortgage the %of cash would be away down.

Quote from: LeoMc on October 24, 2023, 09:41:52 AM

Quote from: imtommygunn on October 23, 2023, 06:28:22 PMI'm just waiting on the conspiracy theories...

That is why I dipped into the thread, but it is an interesting enough topic.

When you factor in Direct debits for the likes of the mortgage the %of cash would be away down.

Yeah obviously the unavoidables like that and phone contracts and stuff. But everyone should be using cash in shops/restaurants/bars etc

Recently, in the last 6 months I suppose, I have started to use Cash more. Its my own little protest I suppose against the banks who are basically trying to move people away from cash, making it difficult to lodge it and having no tellers in banks to talk to people even having "no cash" banks.

Would use very little cash - in fact when going to pay the likes of the window cleaner or kids looking money for school lunch I find myself scraping around for it.

Where small business say they prefer cash I would try to make sure I pay in cash - unless the customer service is horrible, then I will pay by card deliberately

Quote from: Itchy on October 24, 2023, 10:22:23 AMRecently, in the last 6 months I suppose, I have started to use Cash more. Its my own little protest I suppose against the banks who are basically trying to move people away from cash, making it difficult to lodge it and having no tellers in banks to talk to people even having "no cash" banks.

Disgraceful that imo. Same as gaa venues turning away people with cash. 

Quote from: Armagh18 on October 24, 2023, 11:09:07 AM

Quote from: Itchy on October 24, 2023, 10:22:23 AMRecently, in the last 6 months I suppose, I have started to use Cash more. Its my own little protest I suppose against the banks who are basically trying to move people away from cash, making it difficult to lodge it and having no tellers in banks to talk to people even having "no cash" banks.

Disgraceful that imo. Same as gaa venues turning away people with cash. 

Ahhy but it is good practice, it removes risk around transferring the cash from venue to the bank and of course the odd sticky fingers.
My business is 100% card. Never get paid in cash and it's a pain paying the window cleaner and office cleaner in cash. I have to take cash out for things, like some of the kids activities.

Quote from: trailer on October 24, 2023, 11:20:21 AM

Quote from: Armagh18 on October 24, 2023, 11:09:07 AM

Quote from: Itchy on October 24, 2023, 10:22:23 AMRecently, in the last 6 months I suppose, I have started to use Cash more. Its my own little protest I suppose against the banks who are basically trying to move people away from cash, making it difficult to lodge it and having no tellers in banks to talk to people even having "no cash" banks.

Disgraceful that imo. Same as gaa venues turning away people with cash. 

Ahhy but it is good practice, it removes risk around transferring the cash from venue to the bank and of course the odd sticky fingers.
My business is 100% card. Never get paid in cash and it's a pain paying the window cleaner and office cleaner in cash. I have to take cash out for things, like some of the kids activities.

Is it not true that legally you are obliged to take cash payment if your customer wishes. Down south the NCT centres tried to go non cash a few months back and were forced by government to undo it and provide facility to take cash.

Quote from: Armagh18 on October 24, 2023, 09:51:29 AM

Quote from: LeoMc on October 24, 2023, 09:41:52 AM

Quote from: imtommygunn on October 23, 2023, 06:28:22 PMI'm just waiting on the conspiracy theories...

That is why I dipped into the thread, but it is an interesting enough topic.

When you factor in Direct debits for the likes of the mortgage the %of cash would be away down.

Yeah obviously the unavoidables like that and phone contracts and stuff. But everyone should be using cash in shops/restaurants/bars etc

Why?

Cash as much as possible. Was Ulster bank customer and since they left I haven't bothered getting a new credit card.

Can't make sense why Gaa don't accept cash at the gate for club and county games. Have regularly seen old folks turned away at the gate but once you enter you can buy programs, tea and coffee with cash.

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Quote from: trailer on October 24, 2023, 11:20:21 AM

Quote from: Armagh18 on October 24, 2023, 11:09:07 AM

Quote from: Itchy on October 24, 2023, 10:22:23 AMRecently, in the last 6 months I suppose, I have started to use Cash more. Its my own little protest I suppose against the banks who are basically trying to move people away from cash, making it difficult to lodge it and having no tellers in banks to talk to people even having "no cash" banks.

Disgraceful that imo. Same as gaa venues turning away people with cash. 

Ahhy but it is good practice, it removes risk around transferring the cash from venue to the bank and of course the odd sticky fingers.
My business is 100% card. Never get paid in cash and it's a pain paying the window cleaner and office cleaner in cash. I have to take cash out for things, like some of the kids activities.

Is it not true that legally you are obliged to take cash payment if your customer wishes. Down south the NCT centres tried to go non cash a few months back and were forced by government to undo it and provide facility to take cash.

I'd take cash if anyone would give it to me but nobody ever does. I actually asked a guy who I thought might have a bit of cash lying around if you get me, to pay me in notes and he looked at me as if I was completely f**king mental. 

Cashless payments are no doubt convenient, but I like to have cash and I know some local small businesses in Armagh have a bit of promotion on to try to get people to pay in cash to avoid bank fees.

Trying to sell supermarket self check out as 'convenience' is one of the biggest f**king scams ever tho, I despise it with a passion, I don't mind a few items but the first time I'm asked to scan a full trolley it will be left there & my last visit to that store.

I take cash, cheques and card, mostly card due to the sums, farmers like the aul cash or cheque book. Get a lot of payments through BACS,

Prefer taking it via machine, then I'm not running around with a lot of cash to bank.

But it will be cashless soon enough, as soon as the banks stop charging for the use of cards and transactions, I'm not sure why they do if the system is up and running, it shouldn't cost the punters at this stage!

Benny, I always use the self scanny thingy in Tesco, no hanging about at the counter waiting on some twat counting out his pennies, while having a conversation about pure shite!

Quote from: Milltown Row2 on October 24, 2023, 01:20:46 PMI'm not sure why they do if the system is up and running, it shouldn't cost the punters at this stage!

Seriously? You have maintenance and op ex costs, integration with card providers, regulatory requirements, AML, constantly moving target in cyber security etc....

Payment systems are complex. Someone has to pay for it and was alway gonna get passed onto retailers and customers while deposits are low.

Quote from: NAG1 on October 24, 2023, 09:20:59 AMUnsure how you would be scammed tapping for things like drinks/ food, instant text alert to your phone to let you know how much you were just charged so would make it more difficult to scam I would have thought.

I'm sure those businesses relying on people paying card or cash will have this built into their pricing structure and I would say for the convenience most people happy to accept this.

As has been said above, those business which are cash only or encouraging cash have their own reasons for doing so  ;)

  Not all businesses who  prefer cash are  on the fiddle. 

Remember listening to radio a while back about  cash/card payments. One  businessman, think he was a small business west of Ireland. Said a lot  of his  sales was smaller items, possibly a coffee, newspaper,  milk, bread etc... maybe between 5-10 Euro.  He said he had to  stop  accepting cards because the  fees were just too  much for  a small transactions  like his.

Another recently , a chip shop I think it was , he  said his card machine fees were usually around 200 a month.  Lately it's 800-900. I'm not sure if that's due to  banks upping their fees , or more people paying by card. Either way , that's a big  rise in a short timeframe . So, it's understandable why some prefer cash.

On a different sort of angle ,  a man dropped his  teen kids off at a concert.  The Aviva or somewhere.  The kids just had cash , no card. They were  there for hours, and couldn't get anything to eat  or drink because it was cashless.  What if one kid was  diabetic and needed something to  eat or drink to control  their sugar levels?

Quote from: AustinPowers on October 24, 2023, 02:49:14 PM

Quote from: NAG1 on October 24, 2023, 09:20:59 AMUnsure how you would be scammed tapping for things like drinks/ food, instant text alert to your phone to let you know how much you were just charged so would make it more difficult to scam I would have thought.

I'm sure those businesses relying on people paying card or cash will have this built into their pricing structure and I would say for the convenience most people happy to accept this.

As has been said above, those business which are cash only or encouraging cash have their own reasons for doing so  ;)

  Not all businesses who  prefer cash are  on the fiddle. 

Remember listening to radio a while back about  cash/card payments. One  businessman, think he was a small business west of Ireland. Said a lot  of his  sales was smaller items, possibly a coffee, newspaper,  milk, bread etc... maybe between 5-10 Euro.  He said he had to  stop  accepting cards because the  fees were just too  much for  a small business like his.

Another recently , a chip shop I think it was , he  said his card machine fees were usually around 200 a month.  Lately it's 800-900. I'm not sure if that's due to  banks upping their fees , or more people paying by card. Either way , that's a big  rise in a short timeframe . So, it's understandable why some prefer cash.

On a different sort of angle ,  a man dropped his  teen kids off at a concert.  The Aviva or somewhere.  The kids just had cash , no card. They were  there for hours, and couldn't get anything to eat  or drink because it was cashless.  What if one kid was  diabetic and needed something to  control  their sugar levels?

If your kid is diabetic you be a shit parent if you didn't have something with them for their sugar levels

As for the chip shop, if they have upped their prices because of the rise in using machines, surely if you pay cash they could offer a lower price to the cash user?

As for the the upkeep of the banks maintenance and op ex costs, integration with card providers, regulatory requirements and so on if we just pulled out of the banks which charge the most would it create a cheaper provider thus bringing down the hidden/extra cost that we are being billed for?

Quote from: Milltown Row2 on October 24, 2023, 01:20:46 PMBenny, I always use the self scanny thingy in Tesco, no hanging about at the counter waiting on some twat counting out his pennies, while having a conversation about pure shite!

I don't be in the big supermarkets that much ( I prefer to shop local  as much as possible) but I refuse to use them self  service tills. Even if it means  waiting for 10 more  minutes  , I'll do it.

Quote from: AustinPowers on October 24, 2023, 02:58:58 PM

Quote from: Milltown Row2 on October 24, 2023, 01:20:46 PMBenny, I always use the self scanny thingy in Tesco, no hanging about at the counter waiting on some twat counting out his pennies, while having a conversation about pure shite!

I don't be in the big supermarkets that much ( I prefer to shop local  as much as possible) but I refuse to use them self  service tills. Even if it means  waiting for 10 more  minutes  , I'll do it.

It's only a matter of time until there are no tills. And those shops definitely won't take cash. Times are a changing.

Quote from: Milltown Row2 on October 24, 2023, 02:56:47 PMAs for the chip shop, if they have upped their prices because of the rise in using machines, surely if you pay cash they could offer a lower price to the cash user?

I'm not sure if they upped their prices  because of card payments  increasing.  But that's a good  point.  I'd be happy enough to see that sort of thing to  increase cash use. Fish supper £X with cash, £X + 10% with card.

The other  thing pushing cashless is insurance.  It seems to be  more common for businesses to  be quoted very high premiums for  handling cash , or insurance companies refusing to insure  them.

Quote from: AustinPowers on October 24, 2023, 03:15:57 PM

Quote from: Milltown Row2 on October 24, 2023, 02:56:47 PMAs for the chip shop, if they have upped their prices because of the rise in using machines, surely if you pay cash they could offer a lower price to the cash user?

I'm not sure if they upped their prices  because of card payments  increasing.  But that's a good  point.  I'd be happy enough to see that sort of thing to  increase cash use. Fish supper £X with cash, £X + 10% with card.

The other  thing pushing cashless is insurance.  It seems to be  more common for businesses to  be quoted very high premiums for  handling cash , or insurance companies refusing to insure  them.

There's a PR issue there. Needs to be framed right. They need to say 10% discount for cash. If you put 10% on the the price for card transactions, then you get the Karen's on Facebook giving out about bout it and how big a disgrace it is. Small businesses like that live and die by good relations.
Personally only even use cash when there is no option for card. Changed to one of those small wallet things now as hardly ever have cash in me pockets.
T'was handy excuse when the neighbouring clubs used to call at the door with Tickets, til they pulled a bloody card reader from their pockets!! 

Interesting

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/co-antrim-cafe-goes-cash-only-due-to-cost-of-living-crisis/a1437578900.html

I use cash to pay for petrol because there's a dodgy station near us that gives you a big discount for it. We also have a cleaner that comes to our house a couple of times a month and we pay her cash, although we're switching that to electronic soon. And if we're buying second hand stuff on FB Marketplace that's another place where cash is the only option, but even then most people take Paypal or Venmo now. Everything else is tap or autopay.

I find paper money a big pain in the neck. You have to go and get it from a machine while checking over your shoulder, you have to get the right denominations for the stuff you're buying if the other person doesn't have change. And as RH says a lot of it leaks out in small change that never gets used. I don't see the attraction of it. And I certainly don't get the tinfoil hat stuff about "government control." I'm sure Uncle Sam has bigger fish to fry than how much I'm spending on groceries.

Quote from: AustinPowers on October 24, 2023, 02:58:58 PM

Quote from: Milltown Row2 on October 24, 2023, 01:20:46 PMBenny, I always use the self scanny thingy in Tesco, no hanging about at the counter waiting on some twat counting out his pennies, while having a conversation about pure shite!

I don't be in the big supermarkets that much ( I prefer to shop local  as much as possible) but I refuse to use them self  service tills. Even if it means  waiting for 10 more  minutes  , I'll do it.

I was in the Sainsburys in Derry City last week, first time in a couple of years (we do all our shopping in Lidl)... Where once there was probably about 15 manned tills and maybe half a dozen basket self service tills, they now have 3 (!) manned tills and a load of self service tills, including weekly shoppers with the full trolleys. It was around 6.30pm on a Swt, it was noticeably quieter than I expected it to be ... I won't be back near it

Do u get charged for cash withdrawals ftom atms in the states? Probably the way they'll try to wean us off cash here eventually. They did try to introduce it here (UK as opposed to NI) years ago but there was a huge back lash & it died a death.

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Quote from: AustinPowers on October 24, 2023, 02:58:58 PM

Quote from: Milltown Row2 on October 24, 2023, 01:20:46 PMBenny, I always use the self scanny thingy in Tesco, no hanging about at the counter waiting on some twat counting out his pennies, while having a conversation about pure shite!

I don't be in the big supermarkets that much ( I prefer to shop local  as much as possible) but I refuse to use them self  service tills. Even if it means  waiting for 10 more  minutes  , I'll do it.

I was in the Sainsburys in Derry City last week, first time in a couple of years (we do all our shopping in Lidl)... Where once there was probably about 15 manned tills and maybe half a dozen basket self service tills, they now have 3 (!) manned tills and a load of self service tills, including weekly shoppers with the full trolleys. It was around 6.30pm on a Swt, it was noticeably quieter than I expected it to be ... I won't be back near it

Self service is grand for a few items but ffs trolley loads? They'd want to be paying you a wage to scan all thag

Quote from: Eamonnca1 on October 24, 2023, 04:48:36 PMI use cash to pay for petrol because there's a dodgy station near us that gives you a big discount for it

That was one thing I noticed when I was driving in that area - the gas stations had different prices if you paid in cash or paid by card. It was only 10 to 15 cents a gallon saving

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Quote from: bennydorano on October 24, 2023, 05:08:14 PMDo u get charged for cash withdrawals ftom atms in the states? Probably the way they'll try to wean us off cash here eventually. They did try to introduce it hear (UK as opposed to NI) years ago but there was a huge back lash & it died a death.

Yes, usually the only ATMs that you can get money out of without an extra charge are those belonging to you own bank.

Just did my largest ever cash transaction, the guy doing a bunch drywall, painting and plumbing work for us wanted to be paid in cash.

Quote from: Eamonnca1 on October 24, 2023, 04:48:36 PMI use cash to pay for petrol because there's a dodgy station near us that gives you a big discount for it. We also have a cleaner that comes to our house a couple of times a month and we pay her cash, although we're switching that to electronic soon. And if we're buying second hand stuff on FB Marketplace that's another place where cash is the only option, but even then most people tkae Paypal or Venmo now. Everything else is tap or autopay.

I find paper money a big pain in the neck. You have to go and get it from a machine while checking over your shoulder, you have to get the right denominations for the stuff you're buying if the other person doesn't have change. And as RH says a lot of it leaks out in small change that never gets used. I don't see the attraction of it. And I certainly don't get the tinfoil hat stuff about "government control." I'm sure Uncle Sam has bigger fish to fry than how much I'm getting spending on groceries.

There's more chance somebody scamming you on-line or by text etc. than somebody robbing you at a cash machine I'd say.

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Quote from: AustinPowers on October 24, 2023, 03:15:57 PM

Quote from: Milltown Row2 on October 24, 2023, 02:56:47 PMAs for the chip shop, if they have upped their prices because of the rise in using machines, surely if you pay cash they could offer a lower price to the cash user?

I'm not sure if they upped their prices  because of card payments  increasing.  But that's a good  point.  I'd be happy enough to see that sort of thing to  increase cash use. Fish supper £X with cash, £X + 10% with card.

The other  thing pushing cashless is insurance.  It seems to be  more common for businesses to  be quoted very high premiums for  handling cash , or insurance companies refusing to insure  them.

There's a PR issue there. Needs to be framed right. They need to say 10% discount for cash. If you put 10% on the the price for card transactions, then you get the Karen's on Facebook giving out about bout it and how big a disgrace it is. Small businesses like that live and die by good relations.
Personally only even use cash when there is no option for card. Changed to one of those small wallet things now as hardly ever have cash in me pockets.
T'was handy excuse when the neighbouring clubs used to call at the door with Tickets, til they pulled a bloody card reader from their pockets!! 

Would there be many clubs going door to door now?

Pre Covid there would have been a good few iirc, selling 1 for £20 and 3 for £50 etc.

Maybe too much hassle now for clubs and it's all about the corporate funding raising now.

Quote from: trueblue1234 on October 24, 2023, 03:30:12 PM

Quote from: AustinPowers on October 24, 2023, 03:15:57 PM

Quote from: Milltown Row2 on October 24, 2023, 02:56:47 PMAs for the chip shop, if they have upped their prices because of the rise in using machines, surely if you pay cash they could offer a lower price to the cash user?

I'm not sure if they upped their prices  because of card payments  increasing.  But that's a good  point.  I'd be happy enough to see that sort of thing to  increase cash use. Fish supper £X with cash, £X + 10% with card.

The other  thing pushing cashless is insurance.  It seems to be  more common for businesses to  be quoted very high premiums for  handling cash , or insurance companies refusing to insure  them.

There's a PR issue there. Needs to be framed right. They need to say 10% discount for cash. If you put 10% on the the price for card transactions, then you get the Karen's on Facebook giving out about bout it and how big a disgrace it is. Small businesses like that live and die by good relations.
Personally only even use cash when there is no option for card. Changed to one of those small wallet things now as hardly ever have cash in me pockets.
T'was handy excuse when the neighbouring clubs used to call at the door with Tickets, til they pulled a bloody card reader from their pockets!! 

The missus got caught with this too last year. We genuinely never have cash in the house and there ones round selling club tickets and when she said we had no cash he pulled out a wee SumUp machine.

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Quote from: trueblue1234 on October 24, 2023, 03:30:12 PM

Quote from: AustinPowers on October 24, 2023, 03:15:57 PM

Quote from: Milltown Row2 on October 24, 2023, 02:56:47 PMAs for the chip shop, if they have upped their prices because of the rise in using machines, surely if you pay cash they could offer a lower price to the cash user?

I'm not sure if they upped their prices  because of card payments  increasing.  But that's a good  point.  I'd be happy enough to see that sort of thing to  increase cash use. Fish supper £X with cash, £X + 10% with card.

The other  thing pushing cashless is insurance.  It seems to be  more common for businesses to  be quoted very high premiums for  handling cash , or insurance companies refusing to insure  them.

There's a PR issue there. Needs to be framed right. They need to say 10% discount for cash. If you put 10% on the the price for card transactions, then you get the Karen's on Facebook giving out about bout it and how big a disgrace it is. Small businesses like that live and die by good relations.
Personally only even use cash when there is no option for card. Changed to one of those small wallet things now as hardly ever have cash in me pockets.
T'was handy excuse when the neighbouring clubs used to call at the door with Tickets, til they pulled a bloody card reader from their pockets!! 

Would there be many clubs going door to door now?

Pre Covid there would have been a good few iirc, selling 1 for £20 and 3 for £50 etc.

Maybe too much hassle now for clubs and it's all about the corporate funding raising now.

Yes I had one recently. I said I didn't have cash and he pulled out a card machine!!
Told him I wasn't interested.

Quote from: Would ye whist on October 24, 2023, 03:50:19 PMInteresting

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/co-antrim-cafe-goes-cash-only-due-to-cost-of-living-crisis/a1437578900.html

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Quote from: NAG1 on October 24, 2023, 09:20:59 AMUnsure how you would be scammed tapping for things like drinks/ food, instant text alert to your phone to let you know how much you were just charged so would make it more difficult to scam I would have thought.

I'm sure those businesses relying on people paying card or cash will have this built into their pricing structure and I would say for the convenience most people happy to accept this.

As has been said above, those business which are cash only or encouraging cash have their own reasons for doing so  ;)

  Not all businesses who  prefer cash are  on the fiddle. 

Remember listening to radio a while back about  cash/card payments. One  businessman, think he was a small business west of Ireland. Said a lot  of his  sales was smaller items, possibly a coffee, newspaper,  milk, bread etc... maybe between 5-10 Euro.  He said he had to  stop  accepting cards because the  fees were just too  much for  a small transactions  like his.

Another recently , a chip shop I think it was , he  said his card machine fees were usually around 200 a month.  Lately it's 800-900. I'm not sure if that's due to  banks upping their fees , or more people paying by card. Either way , that's a big  rise in a short timeframe . So, it's understandable why some prefer cash.

On a different sort of angle ,  a man dropped his  teen kids off at a concert.  The Aviva or somewhere.  The kids just had cash , no card. They were  there for hours, and couldn't get anything to eat  or drink because it was cashless.  What if one kid was  diabetic and needed something to  eat or drink to control  their sugar levels?

Bring a Glucagon hypokit.

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Quote from: Milltown Row2 on October 24, 2023, 02:56:47 PMAs for the chip shop, if they have upped their prices because of the rise in using machines, surely if you pay cash they could offer a lower price to the cash user?

I'm not sure if they upped their prices  because of card payments  increasing.  But that's a good  point.  I'd be happy enough to see that sort of thing to  increase cash use. Fish supper £X with cash, £X + 10% with card.

The other  thing pushing cashless is insurance.  It seems to be  more common for businesses to  be quoted very high premiums for  handling cash , or insurance companies refusing to insure  them.

There's a PR issue there. Needs to be framed right. They need to say 10% discount for cash. If you put 10% on the the price for card transactions, then you get the Karen's on Facebook giving out about bout it and how big a disgrace it is. Small businesses like that live and die by good relations.
Personally only even use cash when there is no option for card. Changed to one of those small wallet things now as hardly ever have cash in me pockets.
T'was handy excuse when the neighbouring clubs used to call at the door with Tickets, til they pulled a bloody card reader from their pockets!! 

Would there be many clubs going door to door now?

Pre Covid there would have been a good few iirc, selling 1 for £20 and 3 for £50 etc.

Maybe too much hassle now for clubs and it's all about the corporate funding raising now.

Yes I had one recently. I said I didn't have cash and he pulled out a card machine!!
Told him I wasn't interested.

I'd always try and buy a gaa ticket if people came to my door.

Such a thankless task on wet wintery nights and usually from a club miles and miles away.

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Quote from: Milltown Row2 on October 24, 2023, 02:56:47 PMAs for the chip shop, if they have upped their prices because of the rise in using machines, surely if you pay cash they could offer a lower price to the cash user?

I'm not sure if they upped their prices  because of card payments  increasing.  But that's a good  point.  I'd be happy enough to see that sort of thing to  increase cash use. Fish supper £X with cash, £X + 10% with card.

The other  thing pushing cashless is insurance.  It seems to be  more common for businesses to  be quoted very high premiums for  handling cash , or insurance companies refusing to insure  them.

There's a PR issue there. Needs to be framed right. They need to say 10% discount for cash. If you put 10% on the the price for card transactions, then you get the Karen's on Facebook giving out about bout it and how big a disgrace it is. Small businesses like that live and die by good relations.
Personally only even use cash when there is no option for card. Changed to one of those small wallet things now as hardly ever have cash in me pockets.
T'was handy excuse when the neighbouring clubs used to call at the door with Tickets, til they pulled a bloody card reader from their pockets!! 

Would there be many clubs going door to door now?

Pre Covid there would have been a good few iirc, selling 1 for £20 and 3 for £50 etc.

Maybe too much hassle now for clubs and it's all about the corporate funding raising now.

Yes I had one recently. I said I didn't have cash and he pulled out a card machine!!
Told him I wasn't interested.

I'd always try and buy a gaa ticket if people came to my door.

Such a thankless task on wet wintery nights and usually from a club miles and miles away.

Even when they're 100 quid?

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Quote from: Milltown Row2 on October 24, 2023, 02:56:47 PMAs for the chip shop, if they have upped their prices because of the rise in using machines, surely if you pay cash they could offer a lower price to the cash user?

I'm not sure if they upped their prices  because of card payments  increasing.  But that's a good  point.  I'd be happy enough to see that sort of thing to  increase cash use. Fish supper £X with cash, £X + 10% with card.

The other  thing pushing cashless is insurance.  It seems to be  more common for businesses to  be quoted very high premiums for  handling cash , or insurance companies refusing to insure  them.

There's a PR issue there. Needs to be framed right. They need to say 10% discount for cash. If you put 10% on the the price for card transactions, then you get the Karen's on Facebook giving out about bout it and how big a disgrace it is. Small businesses like that live and die by good relations.
Personally only even use cash when there is no option for card. Changed to one of those small wallet things now as hardly ever have cash in me pockets.
T'was handy excuse when the neighbouring clubs used to call at the door with Tickets, til they pulled a bloody card reader from their pockets!! 

Would there be many clubs going door to door now?

Pre Covid there would have been a good few iirc, selling 1 for £20 and 3 for £50 etc.

Maybe too much hassle now for clubs and it's all about the corporate funding raising now.

Yes I had one recently. I said I didn't have cash and he pulled out a card machine!!
Told him I wasn't interested.

I'd always try and buy a gaa ticket if people came to my door.

Such a thankless task on wet wintery nights and usually from a club miles and miles away.

Even when they're 100 quid?

They'll not take £100 off you. You can pay bit by bit.

The draw usually isn't for 12 months down the line.

Quote from: bennydorano on October 24, 2023, 05:08:14 PMDo u get charged for cash withdrawals ftom atms in the states? Probably the way they'll try to wean us off cash here eventually. They did try to introduce it here (UK as opposed to NI) years ago but there was a huge back lash & it died a death.

Only if you use a machine outside of your bank's network. We use a credit union, and all the different credit union ATMs are on the same network, so no fees as long as we use them.

There are small commercial ATMs in bars and shops, but they charge quite a bit for withdrawals. I never use them unless it's some sort of emergency, which is never nowadays.

Quote from: Milltown Row2 on October 24, 2023, 01:20:46 PMI take cash, cheques and card, mostly card due to the sums, farmers like the aul cash or cheque book. Get a lot of payments through BACS,

Prefer taking it via machine, then I'm not running around with a lot of cash to bank.

But it will be cashless soon enough, as soon as the banks stop charging for the use of cards and transactions, I'm not sure why they do if the system is up and running, it shouldn't cost the punters at this stage!

Benny, I always use the self scanny thingy in Tesco, no hanging about at the counter waiting on some twat counting out his pennies, while having a conversation about pure shite!

The only reason I don't use the self checkout is it's not much faster than the service checkout. You have to put each item in the bagging area before you can scan the next one, but the cashier at their checkout can just go rapid fire through all the items.

I like the idea of the scan-as-you-go that the Dutch have and I saw in Tesco last time I was home. It hasn't arrived stateside yet, which doesn't surprise me, because this place is always ten years behind with this sort of thing.

I saw a video going around the other day about tills in Japan. All the products have some sort of RFID tags in them. Set your basket on the till and it instantly knows everything that's in there, you press a few buttons on the screen to confirm and pay and away you go. I'd be okay with that.

Does anybody here remember a store in America called Fresh & Easy? It was Tesco's attempt to crack the US market. They had tills that could be self service or full service. A lot of innovations, and a good place to shop, but it didn't catch on.

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Quote from: Eamonnca1 on October 24, 2023, 04:48:36 PMI use cash to pay for petrol because there's a dodgy station near us that gives you a big discount for it

That was one thing I noticed when I was driving in that area - the gas stations had different prices if you paid in cash or paid by card. It was only 10 to 15 cents a gallon saving

(https://i.postimg.cc/XNQyrB9q/Screenshot-2023-10-24-123705.jpg)

It adds up quickly if you drive a lot, which people in America do

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Quote from: Milltown Row2 on October 24, 2023, 01:20:46 PMI take cash, cheques and card, mostly card due to the sums, farmers like the aul cash or cheque book. Get a lot of payments through BACS,

Prefer taking it via machine, then I'm not running around with a lot of cash to bank.

But it will be cashless soon enough, as soon as the banks stop charging for the use of cards and transactions, I'm not sure why they do if the system is up and running, it shouldn't cost the punters at this stage!

Benny, I always use the self scanny thingy in Tesco, no hanging about at the counter waiting on some twat counting out his pennies, while having a conversation about pure shite!

The only reason I don't use the self checkout is it's not much faster than the service checkout. You have to put each item in the bagging area before you can scan the next one, but the cashier at their checkout can just go rapid fire through all the items.

I like the idea of the scan-as-you-go that the Dutch have and I saw in Tesco last time I was home. It hasn't arrived stateside yet, which doesn't surprise me, because this place is always ten years behind with this sort of thing.

I saw a video going around the other day about tills in Japan. All the products have some sort of RFID tags in them. Set your basket on the till and it instantly knows everything that's in there, you press a few buttons on the screen to confirm and pay and away you go. I'd be okay with that.

Does anybody here remember a store in America called Fresh & Easy? It was Tesco's attempt to crack the US market. They had tills that could be self service or full service. A lot of innovations, and a good place to shop, but it didn't catch on.

I scan and go, it's a hell of a lot quicker. I'm generally going at lunchtime Fridays so no real time to hang about. I generally pick what's on offer. Tesco is a dear hole

Smart shop is the way forward. The technology in the Sainsburys app is very fast and picks up the barcode very quick. I thought it would be a pain in the hole but you can fly round scanning and putting the stuff directly into bags, scan the barcode at the till, pay and then leave 9 times out of 10. The odd time they'll do a security check.

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Quote from: Milltown Row2 on October 24, 2023, 02:56:47 PMAs for the chip shop, if they have upped their prices because of the rise in using machines, surely if you pay cash they could offer a lower price to the cash user?

I'm not sure if they upped their prices  because of card payments  increasing.  But that's a good  point.  I'd be happy enough to see that sort of thing to  increase cash use. Fish supper £X with cash, £X + 10% with card.

The other  thing pushing cashless is insurance.  It seems to be  more common for businesses to  be quoted very high premiums for  handling cash , or insurance companies refusing to insure  them.

There's a PR issue there. Needs to be framed right. They need to say 10% discount for cash. If you put 10% on the the price for card transactions, then you get the Karen's on Facebook giving out about bout it and how big a disgrace it is. Small businesses like that live and die by good relations.
Personally only even use cash when there is no option for card. Changed to one of those small wallet things now as hardly ever have cash in me pockets.
T'was handy excuse when the neighbouring clubs used to call at the door with Tickets, til they pulled a bloody card reader from their pockets!! 

Would there be many clubs going door to door now?

Pre Covid there would have been a good few iirc, selling 1 for £20 and 3 for £50 etc.

Maybe too much hassle now for clubs and it's all about the corporate funding raising now.

Yes I had one recently. I said I didn't have cash and he pulled out a card machine!!
Told him I wasn't interested.

As a fellow Gael I always buy the tickets. GAA people going out of a cold night to raise money for their club and community. Least anyone can do as fellow GAA person is buy a ticket. Had a club round a week ago.

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Quote from: Milltown Row2 on October 24, 2023, 02:56:47 PMAs for the chip shop, if they have upped their prices because of the rise in using machines, surely if you pay cash they could offer a lower price to the cash user?

I'm not sure if they upped their prices  because of card payments  increasing.  But that's a good  point.  I'd be happy enough to see that sort of thing to  increase cash use. Fish supper £X with cash, £X + 10% with card.

The other  thing pushing cashless is insurance.  It seems to be  more common for businesses to  be quoted very high premiums for  handling cash , or insurance companies refusing to insure  them.

There's a PR issue there. Needs to be framed right. They need to say 10% discount for cash. If you put 10% on the the price for card transactions, then you get the Karen's on Facebook giving out about bout it and how big a disgrace it is. Small businesses like that live and die by good relations.
Personally only even use cash when there is no option for card. Changed to one of those small wallet things now as hardly ever have cash in me pockets.
T'was handy excuse when the neighbouring clubs used to call at the door with Tickets, til they pulled a bloody card reader from their pockets!! 

Would there be many clubs going door to door now?

Pre Covid there would have been a good few iirc, selling 1 for £20 and 3 for £50 etc.

Maybe too much hassle now for clubs and it's all about the corporate funding raising now.

Yes I had one recently. I said I didn't have cash and he pulled out a card machine!!
Told him I wasn't interested.

As a fellow Gael I always buy the tickets. GAA people going out of a cold night to raise money for their club and community. Least anyone can do as fellow GAA person is buy a ticket. Had a club round a week ago.

Some clubs take the p!ss. To be fair, the last one was Dromore and only £20 tickets so not so bad. 3 for 40.

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Quote from: Milltown Row2 on October 24, 2023, 02:56:47 PMAs for the chip shop, if they have upped their prices because of the rise in using machines, surely if you pay cash they could offer a lower price to the cash user?

I'm not sure if they upped their prices  because of card payments  increasing.  But that's a good  point.  I'd be happy enough to see that sort of thing to  increase cash use. Fish supper £X with cash, £X + 10% with card.

The other  thing pushing cashless is insurance.  It seems to be  more common for businesses to  be quoted very high premiums for  handling cash , or insurance companies refusing to insure  them.

There's a PR issue there. Needs to be framed right. They need to say 10% discount for cash. If you put 10% on the the price for card transactions, then you get the Karen's on Facebook giving out about bout it and how big a disgrace it is. Small businesses like that live and die by good relations.
Personally only even use cash when there is no option for card. Changed to one of those small wallet things now as hardly ever have cash in me pockets.
T'was handy excuse when the neighbouring clubs used to call at the door with Tickets, til they pulled a bloody card reader from their pockets!! 

Would there be many clubs going door to door now?

Pre Covid there would have been a good few iirc, selling 1 for £20 and 3 for £50 etc.

Maybe too much hassle now for clubs and it's all about the corporate funding raising now.

Yes I had one recently. I said I didn't have cash and he pulled out a card machine!!
Told him I wasn't interested.

As a fellow Gael I always buy the tickets. GAA people going out of a cold night to raise money for their club and community. Least anyone can do as fellow GAA person is buy a ticket. Had a club round a week ago.

Some clubs take the p!ss. To be fair, the last one was Dromore and only £20 tickets so not so bad. 3 for 40.

£20 is fair. I bought 3 for £40 of the last club.

If its a £100 ticket, not everyone is in a position (nowadays) to fork that out, but certainly I'd rather be giving my money to the club if I can.

I'd a neighbour many years ago him and his wife bought a club ticket, now he was a local from Newtownabbey and she was from Armagh, she bought a £100 ticket for a house and the feckers won it lol!

Magheralin I think, ya never know! They at the time had just bought the house facing us, what a boost to win a house, needles to say they sold the house and moved, and made good money of their own house that they were in for 3 years.

Quote from: Milltown Row2 on October 24, 2023, 02:56:47 PMAs for the the upkeep of the banks maintenance and op ex costs, integration with card providers, regulatory requirements and so on if we just pulled out of the banks which charge the most would it create a cheaper provider thus bringing down the hidden/extra cost that we are being billed for?

There are plenty of payment service providers competing in the space but ultimately they are not banks (they are have no banking license and regulated differently), so they are intermediaries and cannot offer additional banking services which are needed e.g. accounts.

Ultimately it's the same issue, someone has to pay and unfortunately that gets passed onto the customer in most cases. Modernisation programmes for banks and new providers make it easier to maintain platforms but ultimately the majority of ongoing cost will come down to keeping ahead of constantly moving regulatory, fraud and cyber security.

Re: ATM's  charging for cash withdrawals .

You can  withdraw cash for free  in the Post office.  Not sure you can do so with all bank  cards/accounts, but there's a number   of them you can withdraw for free there.

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Quote from: Milltown Row2 on October 24, 2023, 02:56:47 PMAs for the the upkeep of the banks maintenance and op ex costs, integration with card providers, regulatory requirements and so on if we just pulled out of the banks which charge the most would it create a cheaper provider thus bringing down the hidden/extra cost that we are being billed for?

There are plenty of payment service providers competing in the space but ultimately they are not banks (they are have no banking license and regulated differently), so they are intermediaries and cannot offer additional banking services which are needed e.g. accounts.

Ultimately it's the same issue, someone has to pay and unfortunately that gets passed onto the customer in most cases. Modernisation programmes for banks and new providers make it easier to maintain platforms but ultimately the majority of ongoing cost will come down to keeping ahead of constantly moving regulatory, fraud and cyber security.

Their modernisation programmes must be glacial as I know people still maintaining IBM mainframes in the banking industry.

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Quote from: Milltown Row2 on October 24, 2023, 02:56:47 PMAs for the the upkeep of the banks maintenance and op ex costs, integration with card providers, regulatory requirements and so on if we just pulled out of the banks which charge the most would it create a cheaper provider thus bringing down the hidden/extra cost that we are being billed for?

There are plenty of payment service providers competing in the space but ultimately they are not banks (they are have no banking license and regulated differently), so they are intermediaries and cannot offer additional banking services which are needed e.g. accounts.

Ultimately it's the same issue, someone has to pay and unfortunately that gets passed onto the customer in most cases. Modernisation programmes for banks and new providers make it easier to maintain platforms but ultimately the majority of ongoing cost will come down to keeping ahead of constantly moving regulatory, fraud and cyber security.

Their modernisation programmes must be glacial as I know people still maintaining IBM mainframes in the banking industry.

Plenty still maintain mainframes for number a reasons. They and the software running on them have evolved over decades so it's a  massive job to replace or even worthwhile as they should only be dealing with back office tasks (accounts, customer records, transactions etc...).

Payments/ATM systems integrate with the mainframes. Likewise all other systems as part of a digital modernisation roadmaps all integrate not replace.

The Austrians (and the Germans) love  their cash:

https://apnews.com/article/austria-cash-constitution-proposal-e63078b1682b375a84d0132857374e43

New proposed legislation   on cash availability

https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/0123/1428107-cash-ireland/

Is it me or are there definitely more places insisting on card only. Was at a hotel over the New Year and they only took card. No cash at all.

Quote from: trailer on January 24, 2024, 08:47:37 AMIs it me or are there definitely more places insisting on card only. Was at a hotel over the New Year and they only took card. No cash at all.

Have seen a number of small businesses now have signs up saying they prefer cash and one saying if you want to use a card they'll charge extra to cover the cost of the transaction. It is perfectly understandable that busy bars only want cards so the punter can tap and go.

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Quote from: trailer on January 24, 2024, 08:47:37 AMIs it me or are there definitely more places insisting on card only. Was at a hotel over the New Year and they only took card. No cash at all.

Have seen a number of small businesses now have signs up saying they prefer cash and one saying if you want to use a card they'll charge extra to cover the cost of the transaction. It is perfectly understandable that busy bars only want cards so the punter can tap and go.

It also helps with opportunity of the bar losing money from the till ;)

Not sure what the problem is with cash no cash, what are the benefits of just cash?

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Quote from: trailer on January 24, 2024, 08:47:37 AMIs it me or are there definitely more places insisting on card only. Was at a hotel over the New Year and they only took card. No cash at all.

Have seen a number of small businesses now have signs up saying they prefer cash and one saying if you want to use a card they'll charge extra to cover the cost of the transaction. It is perfectly understandable that busy bars only want cards so the punter can tap and go.

Yeah having said that I have also seen the inverse. Places that only take cash. I think that there should be an onus on places accommodate both.

I remember hearing a while ago that Dublin (might  be more places) taxi drivers  legally have to provide  the card payment  option or else they can't  be on the road.

Well, if that's the case, I think   That  every shop or business should be required to  take cash  or else they can't trade.


I would welcome this  new cash availability  legislation, but what's the point providing  cash machines if more and more businesses  are  legally within their rights to refuse cash?

Quote from: AustinPowers on January 24, 2024, 09:54:04 AMI remember hearing a while ago that Dublin (might  be more places) taxi drivers  legally have to provide  the card payment  option or else they can't  be on the road.

Well, if that's the case, I think   That  every shop or business should be required to  take cash  or else they can't trade.


I would welcome this  new cash availability  legislation, but what's the point providing  cash machines if more and more businesses  are  legally within their rights to refuse cash?

Wouldn't set foot in a place that doesnt take cash tbh.

What are the benefits of cash?

You don't get into debt as there's no credit?
Avoiding bank fees?  (though getting cash out in some places you get charged)
Better to budget?

Just not convinced that using cash over card will make life easier or cheaper for that matter

A lot of take outs on the Ormeau road only take cash. Personally I try to use cash mostly but always have the card in reserve.

Quote from: Square Ball on January 24, 2024, 10:27:49 AMA lot of take outs on the Ormeau road only take cash. Personally I try to use cash mostly but always have the card in reserve.

Are you paid in cash?

I don't think I know any chinese takeaways that do card.

Quote from: imtommygunn on January 24, 2024, 10:34:37 AMI don't think I know any chinese takeaways that do card.

Hopefully they have their tax returns done by end of month!

I don't understand the big issue with having to use your card to pay for something if you have used your card to withdraw cash before that. If you're getting paid in cash fair enough but the majority of people aren't paid in cash. I have no issue with a company saying they only take cash but it can be annoying if they don't make it known beforehand.

I don't get any cash from the work I do and I can't be arsed carrying cash about to end up with change that you don't use anymore.

I am glad that tapping your card in a bar/night club wasn't a thing when I was younger - that could wipe you out for the week on a Friday night.

Quote from: imtommygunn on January 24, 2024, 10:34:37 AMI don't think I know any chinese takeaways that do card.

wife says she doesnt know too may hair dressers who take the card

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Quote from: imtommygunn on January 24, 2024, 10:34:37 AMI don't think I know any chinese takeaways that do card.

wife says she doesnt know too may hair dressers who take the card

Depends were you go I suppose, wife always uses card, card machines were not about when I went to the barbers lol

Quote from: Milltown Row2 on January 24, 2024, 10:28:31 AM

Quote from: Square Ball on January 24, 2024, 10:27:49 AMA lot of take outs on the Ormeau road only take cash. Personally I try to use cash mostly but always have the card in reserve.

Are you paid in cash?

Nope, are many paid in cash?

Quote from: clonian on January 24, 2024, 11:07:17 AMI don't understand the big issue with having to use your card to pay for something if you have used your card to withdraw cash before that. If you're getting paid in cash fair enough but the majority of people aren't paid in cash. I have no issue with a company saying they only take cash but it can be annoying if they don't make it known beforehand.

I don't get any cash from the work I do and I can't be arsed carrying cash about to end up with change that you don't use anymore.

I am glad that tapping your card in a bar/night club wasn't a thing when I was younger - that could wipe you out for the week on a Friday night.

I'll have it!  ;D

I find it's alwsys handy  to have loose change around the house or car.. 

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Quote from: clonian on January 24, 2024, 11:07:17 AMI don't understand the big issue with having to use your card to pay for something if you have used your card to withdraw cash before that. If you're getting paid in cash fair enough but the majority of people aren't paid in cash. I have no issue with a company saying they only take cash but it can be annoying if they don't make it known beforehand.

I don't get any cash from the work I do and I can't be arsed carrying cash about to end up with change that you don't use anymore.

I am glad that tapping your card in a bar/night club wasn't a thing when I was younger - that could wipe you out for the week on a Friday night.

I'll have it!  ;D

I find it's alwsys handy  to have loose change around the house or car..

Handy to have 1ps 2ps and 5ps in your pocket, car or house is about as handy as a slap in the gub lol!

I've always cash in the wallet, but I'll use the card every time when at the shop, cash is mainly used for tips, don't do takeaways (very rarely) so wouldn't be lost there, and the local Indian takeaway (eventually, though sometimes card machine isnt working lol) has a machine.

Probably best use cash most when away on Hols as I can budget it better, take a grand in Euros and see where that takes me! But hate when pocket is filled with coins..

If I started getting things cheaper using cash I'll use it

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Quote from: imtommygunn on January 24, 2024, 10:34:37 AMI don't think I know any chinese takeaways that do card.

wife says she doesnt know too may hair dressers who take the card

Depends were you go I suppose, wife always uses card, card machines were not about when I went to the barbers lol

Cards, cash, my wife's doesn't mind. She'll make it disappear either way.

For small independent local shops I would try to use cash.

For the larger/corporate businesses I use card

I use card when using a self checkout which is 75% of the time. I use them in supermarkets as I don't like small talk with cashier's.
If I go to somewhere like a petrol station I use cash, I don't trust cards to work as I have had bad experiences in the past with chips not working. It is not worth the embarrassment so I use cash on those occasions.
I recall once in Toomebridge, Co. Antrim I got diesel and went in to pay and realised I had brought the wrong credit card with me so I had no way to pay. I had to give the cashier my phone to prove that I would return with the money. I would have thought she would have trusted me to pay as I was a regular customer.

Yes, card is handy. No doubt in that but what a lot of you don't see is the small businesses who are charged a fortune by the banks for transactions. The tips in bars and restaurants are gone now too so as much as it's handy for the punter all you're doing in making the banks richer and eventually closing the small businesses. In 10-20 years time there will not be a small business open anywhere, they simply can't afford the high wages (min wage is £11:50 p/h soon. Anything they make is paid back to government in tax and VAT.
Go to Tesco and other major Supermarkets and they're all pushing you down the self-service route and as time goes they reduce the amount of self-service that uses cash too forcing you to pay by card or stand in the long queue, eventually there will be only a handful of people working in these stores just to stack shelves etc. Taking cash out of society is wrong and a lot of people are suffering for it but it's handy as feck for us the punters

Supermarkets and other small businesses esp bars and restaurants cannott get enough people to work for them, high wages or not.

Spoke to staff at local Spar and and they brought in 3 self checkouts, they have employed more people, self checkouts not having a knock on effect with staffing.

Quote from: illdecide on January 26, 2024, 08:57:31 AMYes, card is handy. No doubt in that but what a lot of you don't see is the small businesses who are charged a fortune by the banks for transactions. The tips in bars and restaurants are gone now too so as much as it's handy for the punter all you're doing in making the banks richer and eventually closing the small businesses. In 10-20 years time there will not be a small business open anywhere, they simply can't afford the high wages (min wage is £11:50 p/h soon. Anything they make is paid back to government in tax and VAT.
Go to Tesco and other major Supermarkets and they're all pushing you down the self-service route and as time goes they reduce the amount of self-service that uses cash too forcing you to pay by card or stand in the long queue, eventually there will be only a handful of people working in these stores just to stack shelves etc. Taking cash out of society is wrong and a lot of people are suffering for it but it's handy as feck for us the punters

Totally agree. Every time  you pay by card , a bank is making  money. 

I never use  self service tills. Not that I be in the big stores very often anyway , but the smaller  shops  have them now too. I'd rather queue for a few minutes than  use them.

I have noticed  the amount of cash checkouts decreasing though in big stores . More and  more card only.  They  will all eventually become card only .  I won't go into   a shop that refuses cash. But  in time, if people  just begrudgingly  accept card only, and shops are allowed to legally refuse cash  , then  it will  disappear quicker.

Quote from: the_daddy on January 26, 2024, 12:00:36 PMThe banks get everyone, every way. A shopowner told me the rates were cheaper for him to use his own cash to fill the in-store ATM, and keep the ATM free, than it was to lodge it in the bank. However, if I'm expected to pay to withdraw cash from an ATM then why should I take the hit rather than the retailer? It's probably at the stage that card payments need to be factored into the price and give discount accordingly for cash.

F**king hate those charges on the ATMs. Refuse to pay them. I'll walk 1/2 a mile to get another machine than pay £1.25 to withdraw my own money.
I tend to be more card now. To the extent it's a nightmare getting £1's for afterschool/ clubs etc. got one of those new thin wallets with no room for coins so rarely have cash at all. Keep the shrapnel in the car for parking/ tolls etc. love the factor bars are card now. Saves a lot of hassle!!

What's the comparison with the transaction fees vs all the other hidden costs with dealing with cash?

Having to have use 2 staff at a time to lodge cash into a bank account, storing cash until it's lodged, insurance premiums for holding cash on premises and transporting to bank, transport etc.... are all hidden costs that amount up.

No doubt the "payment providers" are making money but then again they are accruing a portion of the risk from electronic payment processing. With cash until it's lodged, then risk is all on the business.

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Quote from: the_daddy on January 26, 2024, 12:00:36 PMThe banks get everyone, every way. A shopowner told me the rates were cheaper for him to use his own cash to fill the in-store ATM, and keep the ATM free, than it was to lodge it in the bank. However, if I'm expected to pay to withdraw cash from an ATM then why should I take the hit rather than the retailer? It's probably at the stage that card payments need to be factored into the price and give discount accordingly for cash.

F**king hate those charges on the ATMs. Refuse to pay them. I'll walk 1/2 a mile to get another machine than pay £1.25 to withdraw my own money.
I tend to be more card now. To the extent it's a nightmare getting £1's for afterschool/ clubs etc. got one of those new thin wallets with no room for coins so rarely have cash at all. Keep the shrapnel in the car for parking/ tolls etc. love the factor bars are card now. Saves a lot of hassle!!

This + 1000
I would walk a mile rather than pay to take my own money out.

Robbing fucks

Quote from: Taylor on January 26, 2024, 02:56:57 PM

Quote from: trueblue1234 on January 26, 2024, 12:34:11 PM

Quote from: the_daddy on January 26, 2024, 12:00:36 PMThe banks get everyone, every way. A shopowner told me the rates were cheaper for him to use his own cash to fill the in-store ATM, and keep the ATM free, than it was to lodge it in the bank. However, if I'm expected to pay to withdraw cash from an ATM then why should I take the hit rather than the retailer? It's probably at the stage that card payments need to be factored into the price and give discount accordingly for cash.

F**king hate those charges on the ATMs. Refuse to pay them. I'll walk 1/2 a mile to get another machine than pay £1.25 to withdraw my own money.
I tend to be more card now. To the extent it's a nightmare getting £1's for afterschool/ clubs etc. got one of those new thin wallets with no room for coins so rarely have cash at all. Keep the shrapnel in the car for parking/ tolls etc. love the factor bars are card now. Saves a lot of hassle!!

This + 1000
I would walk a mile rather than pay to take my own money out.

Robbing fucks

Yeah, same here

Cash withdrawals in the Post office   are free though.

Quote from: AustinPowers on January 26, 2024, 03:20:47 PM

Quote from: Taylor on January 26, 2024, 02:56:57 PM

Quote from: trueblue1234 on January 26, 2024, 12:34:11 PM

Quote from: the_daddy on January 26, 2024, 12:00:36 PMThe banks get everyone, every way. A shopowner told me the rates were cheaper for him to use his own cash to fill the in-store ATM, and keep the ATM free, than it was to lodge it in the bank. However, if I'm expected to pay to withdraw cash from an ATM then why should I take the hit rather than the retailer? It's probably at the stage that card payments need to be factored into the price and give discount accordingly for cash.

F**king hate those charges on the ATMs. Refuse to pay them. I'll walk 1/2 a mile to get another machine than pay £1.25 to withdraw my own money.
I tend to be more card now. To the extent it's a nightmare getting £1's for afterschool/ clubs etc. got one of those new thin wallets with no room for coins so rarely have cash at all. Keep the shrapnel in the car for parking/ tolls etc. love the factor bars are card now. Saves a lot of hassle!!

This + 1000
I would walk a mile rather than pay to take my own money out.

Robbing fucks

Yeah, same here

Cash withdrawals in the Post office   are free though.

Aye plenty Post offices open in the town around midnight when you run out of cash and don't want to pay by card at the pub, so walk a mile to find one to come back and pub is closed lol

Quote from: Milltown Row2 on January 26, 2024, 03:40:47 PM

Quote from: AustinPowers on January 26, 2024, 03:20:47 PM

Quote from: Taylor on January 26, 2024, 02:56:57 PM

Quote from: trueblue1234 on January 26, 2024, 12:34:11 PM

Quote from: the_daddy on January 26, 2024, 12:00:36 PMThe banks get everyone, every way. A shopowner told me the rates were cheaper for him to use his own cash to fill the in-store ATM, and keep the ATM free, than it was to lodge it in the bank. However, if I'm expected to pay to withdraw cash from an ATM then why should I take the hit rather than the retailer? It's probably at the stage that card payments need to be factored into the price and give discount accordingly for cash.

F**king hate those charges on the ATMs. Refuse to pay them. I'll walk 1/2 a mile to get another machine than pay £1.25 to withdraw my own money.
I tend to be more card now. To the extent it's a nightmare getting £1's for afterschool/ clubs etc. got one of those new thin wallets with no room for coins so rarely have cash at all. Keep the shrapnel in the car for parking/ tolls etc. love the factor bars are card now. Saves a lot of hassle!!

This + 1000
I would walk a mile rather than pay to take my own money out.

Robbing fucks

Yeah, same here

Cash withdrawals in the Post office   are free though.

Aye plenty Post offices open in the town around midnight when you run out of cash and don't want to pay by card at the pub, so walk a mile to find one to come back and pub is closed lol

Is that  how you got away with   buying a round of drinks?  ;D

Quote from: Taylor on January 26, 2024, 02:56:57 PM

Quote from: trueblue1234 on January 26, 2024, 12:34:11 PM

Quote from: the_daddy on January 26, 2024, 12:00:36 PMThe banks get everyone, every way. A shopowner told me the rates were cheaper for him to use his own cash to fill the in-store ATM, and keep the ATM free, than it was to lodge it in the bank. However, if I'm expected to pay to withdraw cash from an ATM then why should I take the hit rather than the retailer? It's probably at the stage that card payments need to be factored into the price and give discount accordingly for cash.

F**king hate those charges on the ATMs. Refuse to pay them. I'll walk 1/2 a mile to get another machine than pay £1.25 to withdraw my own money.
I tend to be more card now. To the extent it's a nightmare getting £1's for afterschool/ clubs etc. got one of those new thin wallets with no room for coins so rarely have cash at all. Keep the shrapnel in the car for parking/ tolls etc. love the factor bars are card now. Saves a lot of hassle!!

This + 1000
I would walk a mile rather than pay to take my own money out.

Robbing fucks

"Robbing fucks". Catch a grip ffs.

It's like any other service you pay for. Take it out of the bank for free. Can't be arsed to go to the bank, or aren't carrying the cash to cover your needs after hours? Pay for the convenience.

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Quote from: Taylor on January 26, 2024, 02:56:57 PM

Quote from: trueblue1234 on January 26, 2024, 12:34:11 PM

Quote from: the_daddy on January 26, 2024, 12:00:36 PMThe banks get everyone, every way. A shopowner told me the rates were cheaper for him to use his own cash to fill the in-store ATM, and keep the ATM free, than it was to lodge it in the bank. However, if I'm expected to pay to withdraw cash from an ATM then why should I take the hit rather than the retailer? It's probably at the stage that card payments need to be factored into the price and give discount accordingly for cash.

F**king hate those charges on the ATMs. Refuse to pay them. I'll walk 1/2 a mile to get another machine than pay £1.25 to withdraw my own money.
I tend to be more card now. To the extent it's a nightmare getting £1's for afterschool/ clubs etc. got one of those new thin wallets with no room for coins so rarely have cash at all. Keep the shrapnel in the car for parking/ tolls etc. love the factor bars are card now. Saves a lot of hassle!!

This + 1000
I would walk a mile rather than pay to take my own money out.

Robbing fucks

"Robbing fucks". Catch a grip ffs.

It's like any other service you pay for. Take it out of the bank for free. Can't be arsed to go to the bank, or aren't carrying the cash to cover your needs after hours? Pay for the convenience.

No I understand it's a service. I'm just saying, I make a point of avoiding it. I know the logic might not make a lot of sense given I'd have easier options to save 1.25, but I never claimed to be logical.

Question for those who  rarely or never use cash....

Would you  use cash more to pay for goods/shopping  if you were getting a discount?


Here's a video from the US , with  businesses offering  discount  (some up to 10%) to customers if they pay in cash, as  it  works out cheaper for  them without  bank charges

Thats daft, everyone would do something different if it worked out cheaper, but it will be a cashless society soon enough

Quote from: gallsman on January 26, 2024, 08:58:07 PM

Quote from: Taylor on January 26, 2024, 02:56:57 PM

Quote from: trueblue1234 on January 26, 2024, 12:34:11 PM

Quote from: the_daddy on January 26, 2024, 12:00:36 PMThe banks get everyone, every way. A shopowner told me the rates were cheaper for him to use his own cash to fill the in-store ATM, and keep the ATM free, than it was to lodge it in the bank. However, if I'm expected to pay to withdraw cash from an ATM then why should I take the hit rather than the retailer? It's probably at the stage that card payments need to be factored into the price and give discount accordingly for cash.

F**king hate those charges on the ATMs. Refuse to pay them. I'll walk 1/2 a mile to get another machine than pay £1.25 to withdraw my own money.
I tend to be more card now. To the extent it's a nightmare getting £1's for afterschool/ clubs etc. got one of those new thin wallets with no room for coins so rarely have cash at all. Keep the shrapnel in the car for parking/ tolls etc. love the factor bars are card now. Saves a lot of hassle!!

This + 1000
I would walk a mile rather than pay to take my own money out.

Robbing fucks

"Robbing fucks". Catch a grip ffs.

It's like any other service you pay for. Take it out of the bank for free. Can't be arsed to go to the bank, or aren't carrying the cash to cover your needs after hours? Pay for the convenience.

Absolutely robbing fucks - £1.25 for an automated transaction?

I gauge robbing fucks on if they are fleecing people or not (same as any product or service I purchase or decide not to for the above reason).

Someone has to pay for the upkeep of the automation, the filling it, the supplying it, the maintenance of it, making and it and so on ..

I'd be more concerned with interest rates and what you actually pay for a mortgage over 25/30 years! The bastids

As I said, there are loads of hidden costs and risks if dealing with cash, and when not evading tax. I'd like someone to do a realistic comparison, and not just the usual hyperbole about how a the payment providers are screwing them.

Yes I want a cash discount if you are going to avoid putting its through the books as one you are not paying VAT and should not be collecting it etc....

Quote from: Milltown Row2 on February 01, 2024, 02:47:31 PMThats daft, everyone would do something different if it worked out cheaper, but it will be a cashless society soon enough

It will be with that  attitude   ;)

Quote from: Milltown Row2 on February 01, 2024, 02:47:31 PMThats daft, everyone would do something different if it worked out cheaper, but it will be a cashless society soon enough

Apart from queue at a Go Service Station.  ;D

Tesco and Sainsbury's  card machines and contactless facilities  are fecked .

People are  far too reliant on technology . Maybe this will encourage  more people to use cash

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68584235 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68584235)

Sure it's do hard to get cash these days, hence it drives the amount of spend on cards.

Tesco and Sainsbury's affected recently, then Mc Donalds. Now, it's  Greggs  who are affected by   card payment outages

I don't get why  they needed to shut  some stores  though. I mean , is  cash no longer  considered legal tender?  :o

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68614636

Quote from: AustinPowers on March 20, 2024, 12:30:21 PMTesco and Sainsbury's affected recently, then Mc Donalds. Now, it's  Greggs  who are affected by   card payment outages

I don't get why  they needed to shut  some stores  though. I mean , is  cash no longer  considered legal tender?  :o

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68614636

If you are running a business and you are losing a third of your custom because they haven't any cash on them your business will lose a lot of money

During 2021 there were 23.1 million consumers who used cash only once a month or not at all, a significant increase from 13.7 million consumers the previous year. At the same time, there were 1.1 million consumers who mainly used cash when doing their day-to-day shopping.

Quote from: AustinPowers on March 20, 2024, 12:30:21 PMTesco and Sainsbury's affected recently, then Mc Donalds. Now, it's  Greggs  who are affected by   card payment outages

I don't get why  they needed to shut  some stores  though. I mean , is  cash no longer  considered legal tender?  :o

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68614636

Read the article. These aren't old style tills. It says the till display had an error which meant none of the stock items were displayed on the touchscreen so it wasn't just a payment issue, it was also a product selection issue before even getting to payment. There is little in the way of a plan B for companies when their tech lies down as most stock doesn't even have a price on it nowadays

Quote from: Tony Baloney on March 20, 2024, 02:06:01 PM

Quote from: AustinPowers on March 20, 2024, 12:30:21 PMTesco and Sainsbury's affected recently, then Mc Donalds. Now, it's  Greggs  who are affected by   card payment outages

I don't get why  they needed to shut  some stores  though. I mean , is  cash no longer  considered legal tender?  :o

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68614636

Read the article. These aren't old style tills. It says the till display had an error which meant none of the stock items were displayed on the touchscreen so it wasn't just a payment issue, it was also a product selection issue before even getting to payment. There is little in the way of a plan B for companies when their tech lies down as most stock doesn't even have a price on it nowadays

If is was simply a payment issue, those without cash could go old skool and get cash.

There are PCI DSS 4.0 requirements which much be adopted before 1st April, otherwise you would lose your PCI Compliance and in turn creates a lots of headaches plus potential financial penalties.

Taking a complete stab in the dark I'd guess the offending updates (which caused the outages) could be related to the usual last minute "PCI compliance change", despite having 2 years, being rushed out the door. Can't see it being a Payment Gateway provider issue as they all would have significant redundancy.

I generally only use cash to pay my tattooist

What's the craic with trying to exchange a 200 euro note to Sterling? 

My daughter came back from working as an Au pair in Italy recently and they paid her 400 euro, gave her 2, 200 notes.

Anyways she went to the post office to exchange it as she needs to pay off her Hols and they won't change it and said that even the banks don't change it!

Which is true as the wife went to one and they said no, unless you have an account?

Why print them?

Quote from: Milltown Row2 on June 19, 2024, 10:53:28 AMWhat's the craic with trying to exchange a 200 euro note to Sterling? 

My daughter came back from working as an Au pair in Italy recently and they paid her 400 euro, gave her 2, 200 notes.

Anyways she went to the post office to exchange it as she needs to pay off her Hols and they won't change it and said that even the banks don't change it!

Which is true as the wife went to one and they said no, unless you have an account?

Why print them?

 Are they  not changing it because of  it's high value? Or do banks/PO's   not change any value of euros  to sterling?


PS. I never  even knew  there was a 200 Euro note!

Quote from: AustinPowers on June 19, 2024, 11:01:31 AM

Quote from: Milltown Row2 on June 19, 2024, 10:53:28 AMWhat's the craic with trying to exchange a 200 euro note to Sterling? 

My daughter came back from working as an Au pair in Italy recently and they paid her 400 euro, gave her 2, 200 notes.

Anyways she went to the post office to exchange it as she needs to pay off her Hols and they won't change it and said that even the banks don't change it!

Which is true as the wife went to one and they said no, unless you have an account?

Why print them?

 Are they  not changing it because of  it's high value? Or do banks/PO's   not change any value of euros  to sterling?


PS. I never  even knew  there was a 200 Euro note!

If its high value, why print it? I can say, christ why did they not just give her 4 50's but that's really not the point.

Can they be easily made counterfeit banknotes?  and Banks don't want to take a chance?

Quote from: Milltown Row2 on June 19, 2024, 10:53:28 AMWhat's the craic with trying to exchange a 200 euro note to Sterling? 

My daughter came back from working as an Au pair in Italy recently and they paid her 400 euro, gave her 2, 200 notes.

Anyways she went to the post office to exchange it as she needs to pay off her Hols and they won't change it and said that even the banks don't change it!

Which is true as the wife went to one and they said no, unless you have an account?

Why print them?

Such big notes are nuisance here as nobody want them. Just pay them into your account and then withdraw the money, or perhaps try a South Armagh bureau de change.

Quote from: armaghniac on June 19, 2024, 11:10:37 AM

Quote from: Milltown Row2 on June 19, 2024, 10:53:28 AMWhat's the craic with trying to exchange a 200 euro note to Sterling? 

My daughter came back from working as an Au pair in Italy recently and they paid her 400 euro, gave her 2, 200 notes.

Anyways she went to the post office to exchange it as she needs to pay off her Hols and they won't change it and said that even the banks don't change it!

Which is true as the wife went to one and they said no, unless you have an account?

Why print them?

Such big notes are nuisance here as nobody want them. Just pay them into your account and then withdraw the money, or perhaps try a South Armagh bureau de change.

Kids nowadays don't have proper bank accounts, Monza and Revolut

Give her £340 cash and put them in your wallet

Quote from: theskull1 on June 19, 2024, 11:27:18 AMGive her £340 cash and put them in your wallet

I'll get lumbered with them that's for sure! But I'll still not be able to take them to Croker this year as no fecker will take it

Quote from: Milltown Row2 on June 19, 2024, 11:28:35 AM

Quote from: theskull1 on June 19, 2024, 11:27:18 AMGive her £340 cash and put them in your wallet

I'll get lumbered with them that's for sure! But I'll still not be able to take them to Croker this year as no fecker will take it

Duty Free on your next jaunt  ;)

Handbag for the missus in Brown Thomas

Quote from: theskull1 on June 19, 2024, 11:27:18 AMGive her £340 cash and put them in your wallet

What about  the handling fee?  ;D

Money aside. If anyone has a daughter at college and she's looking a job over the summer, I couldn't recommend 5 weeks away in Italy enough..

Free food accommodation, use of car and weekends off and only working till they came back from work.

She'd met up with other Au pairs and they stayed away each weekend in different cities..

Proper ball!

Not sure it beats Wildwood New Jersey  ;D  but looked a lot more stylish

One thing to remember, using chip and pin to pay for things costs 20c per transaction using bank debit cards.

No fee for revolut or credit cards.

Contactless is still free with AIB, but it's supposed to be 20c if they bring it back in.
I did 400 contacless payments last year which would be €80.

Quote from: Milltown Row2 on June 19, 2024, 11:45:05 AMMoney aside. If anyone has a daughter at college and she's looking a job over the summer, I couldn't recommend 5 weeks away in Italy enough..

Free food accommodation, use of car and weekends off and only working till they came back from work.

She'd met up with other Au pairs and they stayed away each weekend in different cities..

Proper ball!

Not sure it beats Wildwood New Jersey  ;D  but looked a lot more stylish

Every au pair's story is different. Sounds like she got a decent crowd.

Quote from: gallsman on June 19, 2024, 12:39:29 PM

Quote from: Milltown Row2 on June 19, 2024, 11:45:05 AMMoney aside. If anyone has a daughter at college and she's looking a job over the summer, I couldn't recommend 5 weeks away in Italy enough..

Free food accommodation, use of car and weekends off and only working till they came back from work.

She'd met up with other Au pairs and they stayed away each weekend in different cities..

Proper ball!

Not sure it beats Wildwood New Jersey  ;D  but looked a lot more stylish

Every au pair's story is different. Sounds like she got a decent crowd.

Yeah, I think she did well, and the others that she met up with had very similar experiences, but I was dreading it to be honest. I know the wife didn't sleep much ;D  But that's continued as the other daughter is Camp America, experiences are slightly different   ;D

The use of cash  is going up . (Well, in the UK/Britain at least )

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1el81lenq1o (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1el81lenq1o)

Tbh I only really use cash at a few local businesses that don't use card. Otherwise I'd be cashless and happy enough with that.

Quote from: Milltown Row2 on June 19, 2024, 11:45:05 AMMoney aside. If anyone has a daughter at college and she's looking a job over the summer, I couldn't recommend 5 weeks away in Italy enough..

Free food accommodation, use of car and weekends off and only working till they came back from work.

She'd met up with other Au pairs and they stayed away each weekend in different cities..

Proper ball!

Not sure it beats Wildwood New Jersey  ;D  but looked a lot more stylish

I was in Wildwood nj for 3 summers 96-98, great days.

Making an effort to be cash now as much as possible lately. If a place is card only I'll just go elsewhere. Only thing is the pockets full of coins are a huer!

Quote from: Armagh18 on December 08, 2024, 02:13:55 PMMaking an effort to be cash now as much as possible lately. If a place is card only I'll just go elsewhere. Only thing is the pockets full of coins are a huer!

Me too. I try to pay cash everywhere.

I don't like the way we're going to a cashless society.

Teenagers can hardly do money sums nowadays as they're always tapping.  ::)   

Cash only places are a pain in the hole.

Quote from: Tony Baloney on December 08, 2024, 02:46:11 PMCash only places are a pain in the hole.

Usually takeaways hairdressers (not that I'm there lol) and places where they don't want to pay tax too much

Quote from: Tony Baloney on December 08, 2024, 02:46:11 PMCash only places are a pain in the hole.

Card only places  are a bigger pain in the hole.

Like Armagh18,  I will go elsewhere rather than  participate

Dumb question, but given that cash is legal tender, why aren't places obliged to take cash in payment?

Quote from: marty34 on December 08, 2024, 02:26:22 PM

Quote from: Armagh18 on December 08, 2024, 02:13:55 PMMaking an effort to be cash now as much as possible lately. If a place is card only I'll just go elsewhere. Only thing is the pockets full of coins are a huer!

Me too. I try to pay cash everywhere.

I don't like the way we're going to a cashless society.

Teenagers can hardly do money sums nowadays as they're always tapping.  ::)   

Nor me. I've nothing to hide , but  a cashless  society would give too much power  to banks and  government  agencies

I've nothing to hide, said like a businessman that likes cash and has an accountant that helps him  ;D

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Quote from: marty34 on December 08, 2024, 02:26:22 PM

Quote from: Armagh18 on December 08, 2024, 02:13:55 PMMaking an effort to be cash now as much as possible lately. If a place is card only I'll just go elsewhere. Only thing is the pockets full of coins are a huer!

Me too. I try to pay cash everywhere.

I don't like the way we're going to a cashless society.

Teenagers can hardly do money sums nowadays as they're always tapping.  ::)   

Nor me. I've nothing to hide , but  a cashless  society would give too much power  to banks and  government  agencies

What power?

There always be cash when chineses take nothing else!!

Quote from: RedHand88 on December 08, 2024, 03:59:40 PM

Quote from: AustinPowers on December 08, 2024, 03:38:15 PM

Quote from: marty34 on December 08, 2024, 02:26:22 PM

Quote from: Armagh18 on December 08, 2024, 02:13:55 PMMaking an effort to be cash now as much as possible lately. If a place is card only I'll just go elsewhere. Only thing is the pockets full of coins are a huer!

Me too. I try to pay cash everywhere.

I don't like the way we're going to a cashless society.

Teenagers can hardly do money sums nowadays as they're always tapping.  ::)   

Nor me. I've nothing to hide , but  a cashless  society would give too much power  to banks and  government  agencies

What power?

Banks - the power to charge you whatever they  like for every card  transaction . And there would be nothing  you could do about it as the cash option would  be gone

Governments - freeze  bank accounts  like they did  with the Canadian truckers for daring to  speak out

Quote from: Milltown Row2 on December 08, 2024, 03:52:23 PMI've nothing to hide, said like a businessman that likes cash and has an accountant that helps him  ;D

Come see for  yourself then.

Just  ignore the squeaky bottom stair and don't use the downstairs toilet. Cistern  broke

Leaving aside government power, there may well have been problems with Internet service owing to Storm Darragh, you could have shops unable to process cards.

Quote from: AustinPowers on December 08, 2024, 04:07:39 PM

Quote from: RedHand88 on December 08, 2024, 03:59:40 PM

Quote from: AustinPowers on December 08, 2024, 03:38:15 PM

Quote from: marty34 on December 08, 2024, 02:26:22 PM

Quote from: Armagh18 on December 08, 2024, 02:13:55 PMMaking an effort to be cash now as much as possible lately. If a place is card only I'll just go elsewhere. Only thing is the pockets full of coins are a huer!

Me too. I try to pay cash everywhere.

I don't like the way we're going to a cashless society.

Teenagers can hardly do money sums nowadays as they're always tapping.  ::)   

Nor me. I've nothing to hide , but  a cashless  society would give too much power  to banks and  government  agencies

What power?

Banks - the power to charge you whatever they  like for every card  transaction . And there would be nothing  you could do about it as the cash option would  be gone

Governments - freeze  bank accounts  like they did  with the Canadian truckers for daring to  speak out

But lodging money carries fees too. Insurance, transfer, staff time to count/ transport etc. Unless you as a business have a huge bundle of cash under the mattress.

Try living in a rural village and the cash machine runs out of cash at the weekend. Card suits me fine and I'll let the tin foil hat brigade get on with it.

Quote from: AustinPowers on December 08, 2024, 04:07:39 PM

Quote from: RedHand88 on December 08, 2024, 03:59:40 PM

Quote from: AustinPowers on December 08, 2024, 03:38:15 PM

Quote from: marty34 on December 08, 2024, 02:26:22 PM

Quote from: Armagh18 on December 08, 2024, 02:13:55 PMMaking an effort to be cash now as much as possible lately. If a place is card only I'll just go elsewhere. Only thing is the pockets full of coins are a huer!

Me too. I try to pay cash everywhere.

I don't like the way we're going to a cashless society.

Teenagers can hardly do money sums nowadays as they're always tapping.  ::)   

Nor me. I've nothing to hide , but  a cashless  society would give too much power  to banks and  government  agencies

What power?

Banks - the power to charge you whatever they  like for every card  transaction . And there would be nothing  you could do about it as the cash option would  be gone

Governments - freeze  bank accounts  like they did  with the Canadian truckers for daring to  speak out

That really didn't get enough coverage.

Quote from: Armagh18 on December 08, 2024, 02:13:55 PMMaking an effort to be cash now as much as possible lately. If a place is card only I'll just go elsewhere.

Same

Quote from: SaffronSports on December 09, 2024, 02:06:44 AMTry living in a rural village and the cash machine runs out of cash at the weekend. Card suits me fine and I'll let the tin foil hat brigade get on with it.

I  live in a rural area, nearest cash machine  3-4 miles away.  Cash machine can be temperamental, so I  tend to withdraw  cash from the  post office counter now. Safer as well , as you're never sure if a cash machine has been tampered with.

Anyway, each to their own , but I pay  cash 95%+ of the time so  I always like to have cash on me.

If I've to make money last until payday then I'll have it in cash, that way I know what is left. Very easy to be happy tappy and lose track.

Saying that, I find revolut very good for the budget side of things. Load on what you have to spend and make it last as long as you need.

Everything outside of that is cashless

How does one pay their mortgage, insurance, fuel, gas, electric, tv licence, holidays, fights, and still say they are 95%cash only users?

Seems like a lot of effort

Quote from: Milltown Row2 on December 09, 2024, 06:24:03 PMHow does one pay their mortgage, insurance, fuel, gas, electric, tv licence, holidays, fights, and still say they are 95%cash only users?

Seems like a lot of effort

Buy a house for cash and you do not need a mortgage. pay your electric in the post office. Cash sorts out fights.

Quote from: Milltown Row2 on December 09, 2024, 06:24:03 PMHow does one pay their mortgage, insurance, fuel, gas, electric, tv licence, holidays, fights, and still say they are 95%cash only users?

Seems like a lot of effort

They are all full of shit

Quote from: armaghniac on December 09, 2024, 06:33:13 PM

Quote from: Milltown Row2 on December 09, 2024, 06:24:03 PMHow does one pay their mortgage, insurance, fuel, gas, electric, tv licence, holidays, flights, and still say they are 95%cash only users?

Seems like a lot of effort

Buy a house for cash and you do not need a mortgage. pay your electric in the post office. Cash sorts out fights.

Ah right, that old £250,000 lying around under the mattress. I suppose chopping down the trees and using the logs to heat the house and 2 hours on the treadmill to keep the electric on..

I suppose it's better than being tracked by 'them' and their dirty plans they have for us... 

Quote from: Milltown Row2 on December 09, 2024, 06:24:03 PMHow does one pay their mortgage, insurance, fuel, gas, electric, tv licence, holidays, fights, and still say they are 95%cash only users?

Seems like a lot of effort

It's  really not

Mortgage , mobiles, broadband Direct debit, and maybe  car/home insurance  (or  pay in person  if local insurer).  Hotels, Airbnb etc, would be card. Maybe the odd  sports event

Electric, TV licence ,  car tax  all  paid by cash in  the post office. 

Oil, fuel, groceries, clothes , car maintenance,  etc all done in  cash. Same with local shops, barber, filling station , takeaways,  butcher, etc.

It's not a lot of  effort. I  find it  very handy mostly working with  cash and much easier to budget

 When you consider how many  everyday transactions you'd  have (food, household items , fuel,  papers, lunch, toiletries,  bus/train, parking metre, car maintenance ,  etc),  I'm sure I'd be 95%+ cash

You've mentioned at least 7 or more things that you pay by DB and the rest even if it was double that amount is still not adding up to 95%+ (my math aint great btw)

I'm still confused on the handier to budget, if you have online banking you can see automatically on your phone what you have left.

On holidays you then take away a lock of cash that you have to convert to Euro or dollars, and go about the place with notes? Cash or cashless does not mean its easier to budget, that's just ballix

So at the end of the month does your employer pay you in cash or straight into an account? and then do you go to the bank and take everything out and leave the payments for those bills that you only (say) is 5% cashless?

So a wad of notes in the wallet and away ya go like Del boy to the shops? Gotcha ;D

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Quote from: Milltown Row2 on December 09, 2024, 06:24:03 PMHow does one pay their mortgage, insurance, fuel, gas, electric, tv licence, holidays, fights, and still say they are 95%cash only users?

Seems like a lot of effort

It's  really not

Mortgage , mobiles, broadband Direct debit, and maybe  car/home insurance  (or  pay in person  if local insurer).  Hotels, Airbnb etc, would be card. Maybe the odd  sports event

Electric, TV licence ,  car tax  all  paid by cash in  the post office. 

Oil, fuel, groceries, clothes , car maintenance,  etc all done in  cash. Same with local shops, barber, filling station , takeaways,  butcher, etc.

It's not a lot of  effort. I  find it  very handy mostly working with  cash and much easier to budget

 When you consider how many  everyday transactions you'd  have (food, household items , fuel,  papers, lunch, toiletries,  bus/train, parking metre, car maintenance ,  etc),  I'm sure I'd be 95%+ cash

Would near all hotels be card only these days? Probably all need a card on file in case of damage? Mobile if you really wanted you can still get top-ups in the shop. Broadband can you pay cash in post office as well?

Quote from: Armagh18 on December 09, 2024, 07:28:56 PM

Quote from: AustinPowers on December 09, 2024, 07:14:14 PM

Quote from: Milltown Row2 on December 09, 2024, 06:24:03 PMHow does one pay their mortgage, insurance, fuel, gas, electric, tv licence, holidays, fights, and still say they are 95%cash only users?

Seems like a lot of effort

It's  really not

Mortgage , mobiles, broadband Direct debit, and maybe  car/home insurance  (or  pay in person  if local insurer).  Hotels, Airbnb etc, would be card. Maybe the odd  sports event

Electric, TV licence ,  car tax  all  paid by cash in  the post office. 

Oil, fuel, groceries, clothes , car maintenance,  etc all done in  cash. Same with local shops, barber, filling station , takeaways,  butcher, etc.

It's not a lot of  effort. I  find it  very handy mostly working with  cash and much easier to budget

 When you consider how many  everyday transactions you'd  have (food, household items , fuel,  papers, lunch, toiletries,  bus/train, parking metre, car maintenance ,  etc),  I'm sure I'd be 95%+ cash

Would near all hotels be card only these days? Probably all need a card on file in case of damage? Mobile if you really wanted you can still get top-ups in the shop. Broadband can you pay cash in post office as well?

Just explain how its easier and why not?

My kids would look at ya like a stranger if I handed them cash, BTW I'm not against cash, but wouldn't have more the £40 in my pocket most days..

Went to buy hot chocolate at an ice skating event with the youngsters the other night. The cocoa stand only accepted cash, but they pointed me to an ATM. The machine was going to charge me $5 to get my money out. I didn't bother with it.

How anybody can be bothered with paper money in this day and age is beyond me.

Quote from: Eamonnca1 on December 09, 2024, 07:37:32 PMWent to buy hot chocolate at an ice skating event with the youngsters the other night. The cocoa stand only accepted cash, but they pointed me to an ATM. The machine was going to charge me $5 to get my money out. I didn't bother with it.

How anybody can be bothered with paper money in this day and age is beyond me.

City centre is littered with cash machines that charge you

Quote from: Eamonnca1 on December 09, 2024, 07:37:32 PMWent to buy hot chocolate at an ice skating event with the youngsters the other night. The cocoa stand only accepted cash, but they pointed me to an ATM. The machine was going to charge me $5 to get my money out. I didn't bother with it.

How anybody can be bothered with paper money in this day and age is beyond me.

Well, if you could  have been  bothered with paper money, you'd  have been sipping on a lovely  hot chocolate . And your kids wouldn't be  mad with Daddy  the rest of the night  8)

Oh they were all right, their mum happened to have enough cash on hand for them.

Bloody kids are spoiled.

Quote from: AustinPowers on December 09, 2024, 07:58:06 PM

Quote from: Eamonnca1 on December 09, 2024, 07:37:32 PMWent to buy hot chocolate at an ice skating event with the youngsters the other night. The cocoa stand only accepted cash, but they pointed me to an ATM. The machine was going to charge me $5 to get my money out. I didn't bother with it.

How anybody can be bothered with paper money in this day and age is beyond me.

Well, if you could  have been  bothered with paper money, you'd  have been sipping on a lovely  hot chocolate . And your kids wouldn't be  mad with Daddy  the rest of the night  8)

And if it was cashless your kids would have missed out! Bonkers

Quote from: Eamonnca1 on December 09, 2024, 09:09:14 PMOh they were all right, their mum happened to have enough cash on hand for them.

The best advice is to marry an organised person, ideally one with lots of cash.

Quote from: Milltown Row2 on December 09, 2024, 10:23:30 PM

Quote from: AustinPowers on December 09, 2024, 07:58:06 PM

Quote from: Eamonnca1 on December 09, 2024, 07:37:32 PMWent to buy hot chocolate at an ice skating event with the youngsters the other night. The cocoa stand only accepted cash, but they pointed me to an ATM. The machine was going to charge me $5 to get my money out. I didn't bother with it.

How anybody can be bothered with paper money in this day and age is beyond me.

Well, if you could  have been  bothered with paper money, you'd  have been sipping on a lovely  hot chocolate . And your kids wouldn't be  mad with Daddy  the rest of the night  8)

And if it was cashless your kids would have missed out! Bonkers

So be it. They'll get  over it  ;)

Quote from: armaghniac on December 09, 2024, 10:25:02 PM

Quote from: Eamonnca1 on December 09, 2024, 09:09:14 PMOh they were all right, their mum happened to have enough cash on hand for them.

The best advice is to marry an organised person, ideally one with lots of cash.

She is extraordinarily well organized, I'll give her that!

Spain and Portugal  card payments down (among other things ).

Another reminder  to carry cash

Loads of card machines working all over the country. They've a battery. I survived the 6 hours of a power cut without feeling the need to dig out the stash from under the mattress and stock up.

Card fees are killing smaller businesses, I'd go to markets etc a good bit and nearly everyone takes card but would prefer cash. Actually chatting to a fella and he's pulled his machine and says hasn't overly affected his trade. Was out for dinner in zen the other week and they are doing a £60 voucher for £50 if bought with cash and you can spend it then and there. Tells you how much they don't want you using card

Yes, I wonder why Chinese restaurants don't want you using cash...

Wise the f**k up everyone. 99% of people looking cash are doing so they can avoid tax. Mossy people happy to give it to them are looking to avoid VAT.

Quote from: gallsman on April 28, 2025, 06:15:33 PMYes, I wonder why Chinese restaurants don't want you using cash...

Wise the f**k up everyone. 99% of people looking cash are doing so they can avoid tax. Mossy people happy to give it to them are looking to avoid VAT.

Well no shit sherlock.

That plus the outrageous card fees. Why wouldnt they?

I'm card vast majority of the time but when I need a five pound note I have to go to the shop to buy something just to get the fiver in my change !

Quote from: Armagh18 on April 28, 2025, 06:16:22 PM

Quote from: gallsman on April 28, 2025, 06:15:33 PMYes, I wonder why Chinese restaurants don't want you using cash...

Wise the f**k up everyone. 99% of people looking cash are doing so they can avoid tax. Mossy people happy to give it to them are looking to avoid VAT.

Well no shit sherlock.

That plus the outrageous card fees. Why wouldnt they?

My point is stop f**king whining about card fees when the real reason is to keep everything off the books.

If someone services  my boiler or  cleans my windows, and I pay them cash , and they don't declare it, I  honestly couldn't give  one shiny shite.

Quote from: Armagh18 on April 28, 2025, 06:16:22 PM

Quote from: gallsman on April 28, 2025, 06:15:33 PMYes, I wonder why Chinese restaurants don't want you using cash...

Wise the f**k up everyone. 99% of people looking cash are doing so they can avoid tax. Mossy people happy to give it to them are looking to avoid VAT.

Well no shit sherlock.

That plus the outrageous card fees. Why wouldnt they?

The card fees argument is a red herring. Lodging cash also costs money. Unless it isn't being lodged...

Quote from: AustinPowers on April 28, 2025, 06:59:29 PMIf someone services  my boiler or  cleans my windows, and I pay them cash , and they don't declare it, I  honestly couldn't give  one shiny shite.

Then we shouldn't complain about the NHS too much either

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Quote from: Armagh18 on April 28, 2025, 06:16:22 PM

Quote from: gallsman on April 28, 2025, 06:15:33 PMYes, I wonder why Chinese restaurants don't want you using cash...

Wise the f**k up everyone. 99% of people looking cash are doing so they can avoid tax. Mossy people happy to give it to them are looking to avoid VAT.

Well no shit sherlock.

That plus the outrageous card fees. Why wouldnt they?

My point is stop f**king whining about card fees when the real reason is to keep everything off the books.

Or both. Have you seen how much businesses are losing out on in card fees?

Well none, because unless they're complete f**king morons, they factor it into their pricing.

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Quote from: Armagh18 on April 28, 2025, 06:16:22 PM

Quote from: gallsman on April 28, 2025, 06:15:33 PMYes, I wonder why Chinese restaurants don't want you using cash...

Wise the f**k up everyone. 99% of people looking cash are doing so they can avoid tax. Mossy people happy to give it to them are looking to avoid VAT.

Well no shit sherlock.

That plus the outrageous card fees. Why wouldnt they?

The card fees argument is a red herring. Lodging cash also costs money. Unless it isn't being lodged...

Does it? Must depend on the bank as I've not seen it.

Sure if it isn't all the better.

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Quote from: AustinPowers on April 28, 2025, 06:59:29 PMIf someone services  my boiler or  cleans my windows, and I pay them cash , and they don't declare it, I  honestly couldn't give  one shiny shite.

Then we shouldn't complain about the NHS too much either

We all know that's  a separate issue though

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Quote from: Milltown Row2 on April 28, 2025, 07:28:45 PM

Quote from: AustinPowers on April 28, 2025, 06:59:29 PMIf someone services  my boiler or  cleans my windows, and I pay them cash , and they don't declare it, I  honestly couldn't give  one shiny shite.

Then we shouldn't complain about the NHS too much either

We all know that's  a separate issue though

Ok, if you want it to be for a separate argument then fine.. but those avoiding tax and complaining about not getting to see a doctor or the waiting lists or whatever else our tax pays for then it's a bit dumb.

Makes sense.

https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2025/1124/1545488-cash-money-emergency-planning-electronic-payments-systems/

Interesting line from that is :

The ECB Space survey shows that cash was the most frequently used payment method at point of sale in in 2024 in 14 out of 20 countries in the euro area, especially for payments under €50.

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Quote from: gallsman on April 28, 2025, 06:23:28 PM

Quote from: Armagh18 on April 28, 2025, 06:16:22 PM

Quote from: gallsman on April 28, 2025, 06:15:33 PMYes, I wonder why Chinese restaurants don't want you using cash...

Wise the f**k up everyone. 99% of people looking cash are doing so they can avoid tax. Mossy people happy to give it to them are looking to avoid VAT.

Well no shit sherlock.

That plus the outrageous card fees. Why wouldnt they?

My point is stop f**king whining about card fees when the real reason is to keep everything off the books.

Or both. Have you seen how much businesses are losing out on in card fees?

It costs businesses money to handle cash. It costs businesses money to handle paper cheques. It costs businesses money to use cards. It costs businesses money to handle money no matter how they do it.

I've never understood this "cash is king" BS. Cash is a pain in the hole. You have to go out of your way to get your hands on the stuff, and the merchant has to either send some poor soul to the bank with a big wad of cash in a bag to drop into the night safe and hope they don't get robbed, or hire a security company to come in an armoured van to cart the stuff around. What's wrong with just tapping the phone? I don't get it.

When I worked for a bakery as a relief salesman, there were some runs where the breadman was trusted to handle cash, and some where they were not, so the shops had direct accounts with the bakery. With the former, you had to futer with calculating the amount owed, write it all out on the docket, make a note of all the shop owed, and collect cash at the end of the week, drive about all day Saturday with a pile of cash building up in your pockets, total that up at the bakery and do even more paperwork to deposit that into the bakery's safe. With the direct accounts you just made a note of what you delivered and dropped the book off at the bakery at the end of the week and let the billing department take care of it. A hundred times more efficient.

There was a lot less fraud where the latter kind of account was involved. If the bakery suspected the breadman was up to no good financially, they made sure all his shops had direct accounts.

The only use I have for cash now is to pay our house cleaner, and even then we could send money to her sister via Zelle. In fact we might just start doing that. I hate having cash sitting in the house. Cash is crap.

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Quote from: Armagh18 on April 28, 2025, 08:26:24 PM

Quote from: gallsman on April 28, 2025, 06:23:28 PM

Quote from: Armagh18 on April 28, 2025, 06:16:22 PM

Quote from: gallsman on April 28, 2025, 06:15:33 PMYes, I wonder why Chinese restaurants don't want you using cash...

Wise the f**k up everyone. 99% of people looking cash are doing so they can avoid tax. Mossy people happy to give it to them are looking to avoid VAT.

Well no shit sherlock.

That plus the outrageous card fees. Why wouldnt they?

My point is stop f**king whining about card fees when the real reason is to keep everything off the books.

Or both. Have you seen how much businesses are losing out on in card fees?

It costs businesses money to handle cash. It costs businesses money to handle paper cheques. It costs businesses money to use cards. It costs businesses money to handle money no matter how they do it.

I've never understood this "cash is king" BS. Cash is a pain in the hole. You have to go out of your way to get your hands on the stuff, and the merchant has to either send some poor soul to the bank with a big wad of cash in a bag to drop into the night safe and hope they don't get robbed, or hire a security company to come in an armoured van to cart the stuff around. What's wrong with just tapping the phone? I don't get it.

When I worked for a bakery as a relief salesman, there were some runs where the breadman was trusted to handle cash, and some where they were not, so the shops had direct accounts with the bakery. With the former, you had to futer with calculating the amount owed, write it all out on the docket, make a note of all the shop owed, and collect cash at the end of the week, drive about all day Saturday with a pile of cash building up in your pockets, total that up at the bakery and do even more paperwork to deposit that into the bakery's safe. With the direct accounts you just made a note of what you delivered and dropped the book off at the bakery at the end of the week and let the billing department take care of it. A hundred times more efficient.

There was a lot less fraud where the latter kind of account was involved. If the bakery suspected the breadman was up to no good financially, they made sure all his shops had direct accounts.

The only use I have for cash now is to pay our house cleaner, and even then we could send money to her sister via Zelle. In fact we might just start doing that. I hate having cash sitting in the house. Cash is crap.

Cash may not be King for you and that's your personal thoughts and there are more like you than not but for a lot of people "Cash is King". So many people rely on cash for tips to make their wages up, Supermarkets are going more and more self service which a lot of people hate espicially if you have a large trolly of groceries. I'd say there's more fraud with digital payments than cash, the amount of people swindled out of their life savings by on-line scammers is shocking. When the internet goes down or there is a major breach of fraud you'll be glad of cash. The only people who really benefit from a cashless society is Bankers and the Government...
BTW i totally see the benifit of the tap and go too, when i'm out on the bike I don't need to carry cash and use the phone to pay for my coffee etc but I'd say I'd be 80% cash and 20% card. Plenty of pro's and cons for both sides I suppose.

I suppose anything less than E100 is generally cash.

Tapping is handy for keeping track but would always use a top up system like Revolut instead of directly on the bank card. Don't use cash that much to avoid change but always carry it just in case. Wouldn't feel right going anywhere without at least a couple hundred in the pocket. Next to no hassle getting and keeping cash.

A couple of hundred in the pocket.  :o

Quote from: Munchie on November 25, 2025, 12:02:46 PMA couple of hundred in the pocket.  :o

I'm lucky if I can find 50p in the dash to blow up a tyre  ;D

Quote from: illdecide on November 25, 2025, 09:50:11 AMCash may not be King for you and that's your personal thoughts and there are more like you than not but for a lot of people "Cash is King". So many people rely on cash for tips to make their wages up, Supermarkets are going more and more self service which a lot of people hate espicially if you have a large trolly of groceries. I'd say there's more fraud with digital payments than cash, the amount of people swindled out of their life savings by on-line scammers is shocking. When the internet goes down or there is a major breach of fraud you'll be glad of cash. The only people who really benefit from a cashless society is Bankers and the Government...
BTW i totally see the benifit of the tap and go too, when i'm out on the bike I don't need to carry cash and use the phone to pay for my coffee etc but I'd say I'd be 80% cash and 20% card. Plenty of pro's and cons for both sides I suppose.

Firstly, not all fraud around cash payments and scams are reported. A relative off mine had 30k in cash stolen by an employee but fcuk all he could do. As soon as you report the crime you will draw lots of attention (and rightly so) on where that cash came from and was it declared. As I told them, that was the risk of doing business the way they have always done and you accepted the risk plus associated loses if the risk was realised. Tough shit or put it all through the books.

Secondly, most on-line scams are not that sophisticated or like something you seen in the movies. Generally they pray on the naivety and distraction of the victim, and typically a similar pattern happened for (to distinguish) off-line scams. At least there is a trail and something to investigate with digital payment scams and in a lot of cases protections in place. With cash, generally you are fcuked unless there is some other evidence. 

Remember you can't legislate for people's stupidity regardless of whether they are scammed online or offline.

When my house got burgled in England my house-mate had left a couple of hundred quid in cash sitting by his bed when he was out. All gone. Nothing he could do.

There's the potential for thievery/fraud whether you use cash or not. My elderly parents used to go through this bizarre ritual of taking a big amount of cash out of the bank or post office or wherever they collected their pensions, and walking across the main street to deposit it in the credit union, all via human tellers. Mad stuff.

At least if you see something dodgy on your credit card you can challenge it. As soon as I try to buy anything big or spend money out of state, half the time the transaction will be declined and the phone will instantly ring saying there's been a suspicious transaction detected, press 1 to approve it. Can be annoying at times, but at least it's some sort of safeguard. Can't do that with paper dollars. The only security you have with that stuff is as good as your ability to win a fist fight with whoever wants to rob you.

You can go the doomsday scenario with anything for that matter. Decent watch or phone worth far more than any cash the average person carries to a criminal.

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Quote from: illdecide on November 25, 2025, 09:50:11 AMCash may not be King for you and that's your personal thoughts and there are more like you than not but for a lot of people "Cash is King". So many people rely on cash for tips to make their wages up, Supermarkets are going more and more self service which a lot of people hate espicially if you have a large trolly of groceries. I'd say there's more fraud with digital payments than cash, the amount of people swindled out of their life savings by on-line scammers is shocking. When the internet goes down or there is a major breach of fraud you'll be glad of cash. The only people who really benefit from a cashless society is Bankers and the Government...
BTW i totally see the benifit of the tap and go too, when i'm out on the bike I don't need to carry cash and use the phone to pay for my coffee etc but I'd say I'd be 80% cash and 20% card. Plenty of pro's and cons for both sides I suppose.

Firstly, not all fraud around cash payments and scams are reported. A relative off mine had 30k in cash stolen by an employee but fcuk all he could do. As soon as you report the crime you will draw lots of attention (and rightly so) on where that cash came from and was it declared. As I told them, that was the risk of doing business the way they have always done and you accepted the risk plus associated loses if the risk was realised. Tough shit or put it all through the books.

Secondly, most on-line scams are not that sophisticated or like something you seen in the movies. Generally they pray on the naivety and distraction of the victim, and typically a similar pattern happened for (to distinguish) off-line scams. At least there is a trail and something to investigate with digital payment scams and in a lot of cases protections in place. With cash, generally you are fcuked unless there is some other evidence. 

Remember you can't legislate for people's stupidity regardless of whether they are scammed online or offline.

A wee bit over the top there, there are plenty of vulnerable people out there espicially the elderly who get scammed on a daily basis so to call them stupid is a bit OTT, not everyone is a brainbox like your fine self.

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Quote from: thebigfella on November 25, 2025, 04:02:15 PM

Quote from: illdecide on November 25, 2025, 09:50:11 AMCash may not be King for you and that's your personal thoughts and there are more like you than not but for a lot of people "Cash is King". So many people rely on cash for tips to make their wages up, Supermarkets are going more and more self service which a lot of people hate espicially if you have a large trolly of groceries. I'd say there's more fraud with digital payments than cash, the amount of people swindled out of their life savings by on-line scammers is shocking. When the internet goes down or there is a major breach of fraud you'll be glad of cash. The only people who really benefit from a cashless society is Bankers and the Government...
BTW i totally see the benifit of the tap and go too, when i'm out on the bike I don't need to carry cash and use the phone to pay for my coffee etc but I'd say I'd be 80% cash and 20% card. Plenty of pro's and cons for both sides I suppose.

Firstly, not all fraud around cash payments and scams are reported. A relative off mine had 30k in cash stolen by an employee but fcuk all he could do. As soon as you report the crime you will draw lots of attention (and rightly so) on where that cash came from and was it declared. As I told them, that was the risk of doing business the way they have always done and you accepted the risk plus associated loses if the risk was realised. Tough shit or put it all through the books.

Secondly, most on-line scams are not that sophisticated or like something you seen in the movies. Generally they pray on the naivety and distraction of the victim, and typically a similar pattern happened for (to distinguish) off-line scams. At least there is a trail and something to investigate with digital payment scams and in a lot of cases protections in place. With cash, generally you are fcuked unless there is some other evidence. 

Remember you can't legislate for people's stupidity regardless of whether they are scammed online or offline.

A wee bit over the top there, there are plenty of vulnerable people out there espicially the elderly who get scammed on a daily basis so to call them stupid is a bit OTT, not everyone is a brainbox like your fine self.

Conor Pope was  scammed , and his job is to make others aware  of scams.   So, it can happen   to anyone,  clearly.

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Quote from: thebigfella on November 25, 2025, 04:02:15 PM

Quote from: illdecide on November 25, 2025, 09:50:11 AMCash may not be King for you and that's your personal thoughts and there are more like you than not but for a lot of people "Cash is King". So many people rely on cash for tips to make their wages up, Supermarkets are going more and more self service which a lot of people hate espicially if you have a large trolly of groceries. I'd say there's more fraud with digital payments than cash, the amount of people swindled out of their life savings by on-line scammers is shocking. When the internet goes down or there is a major breach of fraud you'll be glad of cash. The only people who really benefit from a cashless society is Bankers and the Government...
BTW i totally see the benifit of the tap and go too, when i'm out on the bike I don't need to carry cash and use the phone to pay for my coffee etc but I'd say I'd be 80% cash and 20% card. Plenty of pro's and cons for both sides I suppose.

Firstly, not all fraud around cash payments and scams are reported. A relative off mine had 30k in cash stolen by an employee but fcuk all he could do. As soon as you report the crime you will draw lots of attention (and rightly so) on where that cash came from and was it declared. As I told them, that was the risk of doing business the way they have always done and you accepted the risk plus associated loses if the risk was realised. Tough shit or put it all through the books.

Secondly, most on-line scams are not that sophisticated or like something you seen in the movies. Generally they pray on the naivety and distraction of the victim, and typically a similar pattern happened for (to distinguish) off-line scams. At least there is a trail and something to investigate with digital payment scams and in a lot of cases protections in place. With cash, generally you are fcuked unless there is some other evidence. 

Remember you can't legislate for people's stupidity regardless of whether they are scammed online or offline.

A wee bit over the top there, there are plenty of vulnerable people out there espicially the elderly who get scammed on a daily basis so to call them stupid is a bit OTT, not everyone is a brainbox like your fine self.

Where the did I single out the vulnerable or elderly and call them stupid? In fact in my second paragraph I clearly state that scammers prey on naivety of victims. Try reading the post again you thick fcuk instead of throwing out insults.

You can't legislate for someone getting conned out of their life savings because they genuinely believed Brad Pitt contacted them on Facebook messenger, then believed they were in an online relationship with Brad Pitt and he needed 60k for an operation. As I say, some people just can't be helped or in this case protected from their own stupidity regardless.

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Quote from: thebigfella on November 25, 2025, 04:02:15 PM

Quote from: illdecide on November 25, 2025, 09:50:11 AMCash may not be King for you and that's your personal thoughts and there are more like you than not but for a lot of people "Cash is King". So many people rely on cash for tips to make their wages up, Supermarkets are going more and more self service which a lot of people hate espicially if you have a large trolly of groceries. I'd say there's more fraud with digital payments than cash, the amount of people swindled out of their life savings by on-line scammers is shocking. When the internet goes down or there is a major breach of fraud you'll be glad of cash. The only people who really benefit from a cashless society is Bankers and the Government...
BTW i totally see the benifit of the tap and go too, when i'm out on the bike I don't need to carry cash and use the phone to pay for my coffee etc but I'd say I'd be 80% cash and 20% card. Plenty of pro's and cons for both sides I suppose.

Firstly, not all fraud around cash payments and scams are reported. A relative off mine had 30k in cash stolen by an employee but fcuk all he could do. As soon as you report the crime you will draw lots of attention (and rightly so) on where that cash came from and was it declared. As I told them, that was the risk of doing business the way they have always done and you accepted the risk plus associated loses if the risk was realised. Tough shit or put it all through the books.

Secondly, most on-line scams are not that sophisticated or like something you seen in the movies. Generally they pray on the naivety and distraction of the victim, and typically a similar pattern happened for (to distinguish) off-line scams. At least there is a trail and something to investigate with digital payment scams and in a lot of cases protections in place. With cash, generally you are fcuked unless there is some other evidence. 

Remember you can't legislate for people's stupidity regardless of whether they are scammed online or offline.

A wee bit over the top there, there are plenty of vulnerable people out there espicially the elderly who get scammed on a daily basis so to call them stupid is a bit OTT, not everyone is a brainbox like your fine self.

Where the did I single out the vulnerable or elderly and call them stupid? In fact in my second paragraph I clearly state that scammers prey on naivety of victims. Try reading the post again you thick fcuk instead of throwing out insults.

You can't legislate for someone getting conned out of their life savings because they genuinely believed Brad Pitt contacted them on Facebook messenger, then believed they were in an online relationship with Brad Pitt and he needed 60k for an operation. As I say, some people just can't be helped or in this case protected from their own stupidity regardless.

It's in bold above, your comments and not mine. So take your face for one...

Quote from: thebigfella on November 25, 2025, 04:02:15 PM

Quote from: illdecide on November 25, 2025, 09:50:11 AMCash may not be King for you and that's your personal thoughts and there are more like you than not but for a lot of people "Cash is King". So many people rely on cash for tips to make their wages up, Supermarkets are going more and more self service which a lot of people hate espicially if you have a large trolly of groceries. I'd say there's more fraud with digital payments than cash, the amount of people swindled out of their life savings by on-line scammers is shocking. When the internet goes down or there is a major breach of fraud you'll be glad of cash. The only people who really benefit from a cashless society is Bankers and the Government...
BTW i totally see the benifit of the tap and go too, when i'm out on the bike I don't need to carry cash and use the phone to pay for my coffee etc but I'd say I'd be 80% cash and 20% card. Plenty of pro's and cons for both sides I suppose.

Firstly, not all fraud around cash payments and scams are reported. A relative off mine had 30k in cash stolen by an employee but fcuk all he could do. As soon as you report the crime you will draw lots of attention (and rightly so) on where that cash came from and was it declared. As I told them, that was the risk of doing business the way they have always done and you accepted the risk plus associated loses if the risk was realised. Tough shit or put it all through the books.

Secondly, most on-line scams are not that sophisticated or like something you seen in the movies. Generally they pray on the naivety and distraction of the victim, and typically a similar pattern happened for (to distinguish) off-line scams. At least there is a trail and something to investigate with digital payment scams and in a lot of cases protections in place. With cash, generally you are fcuked unless there is some other evidence. 

Remember you can't legislate for people's stupidity regardless of whether they are scammed online or offline.

Agreed for the most part, but important to point out that it's not really a like-for-like comparison.

If someone gets e-scammed, the limit of their exposure is essentially whatever is in their account + overdraft / credit card limit.

Typically, a average person getting robbed of cash would lose a couple of hundred max.

To answer the question on the thread, a fair majority of my transactions under about £200 would still be in cash, but the percentage is probably reversed when you get above that.

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Quote from: gallsman on April 28, 2025, 06:15:33 PMYes, I wonder why Chinese restaurants don't want you using cash...

Wise the f**k up everyone. 99% of people looking cash are doing so they can avoid tax. Mossy people happy to give it to them are looking to avoid VAT.

Well no shit sherlock.

That plus the outrageous card fees. Why wouldnt they?

My point is stop f**king whining about card fees when the real reason is to keep everything off the books.

Or both. Have you seen how much businesses are losing out on in card fees?

It costs businesses money to handle cash. It costs businesses money to handle paper cheques. It costs businesses money to use cards. It costs businesses money to handle money no matter how they do it.

I've never understood this "cash is king" BS. Cash is a pain in the hole. You have to go out of your way to get your hands on the stuff, and the merchant has to either send some poor soul to the bank with a big wad of cash in a bag to drop into the night safe and hope they don't get robbed, or hire a security company to come in an armoured van to cart the stuff around. What's wrong with just tapping the phone? I don't get it.

When I worked for a bakery as a relief salesman, there were some runs where the breadman was trusted to handle cash, and some where they were not, so the shops had direct accounts with the bakery. With the former, you had to futer with calculating the amount owed, write it all out on the docket, make a note of all the shop owed, and collect cash at the end of the week, drive about all day Saturday with a pile of cash building up in your pockets, total that up at the bakery and do even more paperwork to deposit that into the bakery's safe. With the direct accounts you just made a note of what you delivered and dropped the book off at the bakery at the end of the week and let the billing department take care of it. A hundred times more efficient.

There was a lot less fraud where the latter kind of account was involved. If the bakery suspected the breadman was up to no good financially, they made sure all his shops had direct accounts.

The only use I have for cash now is to pay our house cleaner, and even then we could send money to her sister via Zelle. In fact we might just start doing that. I hate having cash sitting in the house. Cash is crap.

Have a couple of younger relations doing long term bar work at the minute.  They'd disagree entirely.

Card payments have totally wiped out the casual 'keep the change' transactions, which made up the vast majority of their tips

Tipping has changed from an almost passive thing to an active thing, which has decreased it (in pub terms) hugely.

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Quote from: gallsman on April 28, 2025, 06:15:33 PMYes, I wonder why Chinese restaurants don't want you using cash...

Wise the f**k up everyone. 99% of people looking cash are doing so they can avoid tax. Mossy people happy to give it to them are looking to avoid VAT.

Well no shit sherlock.

That plus the outrageous card fees. Why wouldnt they?

My point is stop f**king whining about card fees when the real reason is to keep everything off the books.

Or both. Have you seen how much businesses are losing out on in card fees?

It costs businesses money to handle cash. It costs businesses money to handle paper cheques. It costs businesses money to use cards. It costs businesses money to handle money no matter how they do it.

I've never understood this "cash is king" BS. Cash is a pain in the hole. You have to go out of your way to get your hands on the stuff, and the merchant has to either send some poor soul to the bank with a big wad of cash in a bag to drop into the night safe and hope they don't get robbed, or hire a security company to come in an armoured van to cart the stuff around. What's wrong with just tapping the phone? I don't get it.

When I worked for a bakery as a relief salesman, there were some runs where the breadman was trusted to handle cash, and some where they were not, so the shops had direct accounts with the bakery. With the former, you had to futer with calculating the amount owed, write it all out on the docket, make a note of all the shop owed, and collect cash at the end of the week, drive about all day Saturday with a pile of cash building up in your pockets, total that up at the bakery and do even more paperwork to deposit that into the bakery's safe. With the direct accounts you just made a note of what you delivered and dropped the book off at the bakery at the end of the week and let the billing department take care of it. A hundred times more efficient.

There was a lot less fraud where the latter kind of account was involved. If the bakery suspected the breadman was up to no good financially, they made sure all his shops had direct accounts.

The only use I have for cash now is to pay our house cleaner, and even then we could send money to her sister via Zelle. In fact we might just start doing that. I hate having cash sitting in the house. Cash is crap.

Have a couple of younger relations doing long term bar work at the minute.  They'd disagree entirely.

Card payments have totally wiped out the casual 'keep the change' transactions, which made up the vast majority of their tips

Tipping has changed from an almost passive thing to an active thing, which has decreased it (in pub terms) hugely.

You mean they aren't filling out tax returns for those cash tips? Glad they aren't getting them anymore the scoundrels!

Cash is king. We're getting cleaned enough by tax as it is, if you can keep abit of cash then do it. 

Quote from: Armagh18 on November 27, 2025, 02:32:53 PMCash is king. We're getting cleaned enough by tax as it is, if you can keep abit of cash then do it. 

Yeah, agree with that. Plus, easier keep a handle on what you spend if it's in cash.