Not accepting Cash

[Ali]

I don’t like the new notes, good excuse not to carry it I suppose. The kids are still looking at pictures of 20ps and 50ps in text books, I wonder when that will stop.

 

[Parm]

I don’t like the new notes, good excuse not to carry it I suppose. The kids are still looking at pictures of 20ps and 50ps in text books, I wonder when that will stop.

Is that why your lad was digging in the garden?

Yeah yeah, good excuse that he wants an underground shelter.....

 

[Migmac]

I like having cash in my pockets. My cards are in my wallet but I often don’t take it with me and I don’t do the Apple Pay thing. If I was out for a meal and they refused cash, it would be here’s my name and address and good night

 

[bourbon]

was at a model railway exhibition at Stafford showground. Notorious for no mobile/internet signal. One trader wouldn't accept a guy's card saying 'cash only please' The guy went ballistic at the trader calling him a fraudster, con artist, tax dodger and every name under the sun. He didn't get what he wanted.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Till the day your card / app doesn't work, powercut, or internet goes down.

At work our card reader is fine 85% of the time, and when it's not it's a fecking nightmare.

The internet our way is really mediocre, a good storm, it's gone for days.

How many times has that happened to you in a store in the last 10 years?

So yeah. It's harder to get your class A

It's harder to pay the dodgy **** selling hot tools out the back of his van.
It's harder to pay staff cash in hand under the table

All positives in my book

 

[Ali]

Is that why your lad was digging in the garden?

Yeah yeah, good excuse that he wants an underground shelter.....

No but my dad used to bury a pound coin in the veg patch and tell me I’d have to dig it over if I wanted it. He would also take us swimming and throw one in the pool, did wonders for lung capacity. After a while he painted them white the night before….

 

[roofman]

How many times has that happened to you in a store in the last 10 years?

So yeah. It's harder to get your class A

It's harder to pay the dodgy **** selling hot tools out the back of his van.
It's harder to pay staff cash in hand under the table

All positives in my book

And your poo smells of the finest french perfume

 

[brightspark]

i have no credit rating as i only use the business card wifey has the others so her credits good .

I like having cash in my pockets. My cards are in my wallet but I often don’t take it with me and I don’t do the Apple Pay thing. If I was out for a meal and they refused cash, it would be here’s my name and address and good night

or do the washing up specialy if the chef comes out with his meat clever and he is a massive bad tempered mong

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

And your poo smells of the finest french perfume

Whatever floats you goat...

 

[roofman]

My debit card gets a good workout every winter...as an ice scraper on my windscreens, dodgy geezers can do this and still not go hungry if it breaks.

 

[Migmac]

i have no credit rating as i only use the business card wifey has the others so her credits good .

or do the washing up specialy if the chef comes out with his meat clever and he is a massive mong

Not leaving the wife there, I’d have to get her a taxi home. They probably don’t take cash now

 

[Parm]

I don't speak pigeon-english so I just had it as a footer on the emails I sent out confirming appointment details and costs. Even 'company policy' of paying on invoice +xx days can be worked around with a mobile card reader and the car keys still in your pocket.... besides, payment terms are part of the contract they accepted when they engaged me to carry out the work.

In 2001 you were sending emails?

Did you work for NASA?

 

[Bornfree]

Our local Chinese is the opposite, cash only

My local Indian takeaway does 15% discount for cash.

 

[Wozzaaah]

wait till you have been payed a grand in pound coins for a job it goes through the books and guy gets a bill

I’ve got about £850 in £2 coins plus probably £500 in £1 coins stashed away at the moment. I’m sort of dreading cashing them in at some point but it won’t be for a while.
There’ll probably be new coins by the time I do so they’ll no longer be accepted
Saying that, I’ve got a £2200 dentist bill coming up….

 

[Parm]

I’ve got about £850 in £2 coins plus probably £500 in £1 coins stashed away at the moment. I’m sort of dreading cashing them in at some point but it won’t be for a while.
There’ll probably be new coins by the time I do so they’ll no longer be accepted
Saying that, I’ve got a £2200 dentist bill coming up….

Speak to the Vark

He knows how to melt metal

He will show you how to make a (worthless) art object

 

[Parm]

My local Indian takeaway does 15% discount for cash.

Bloody dodgy lot them Indians

( I mean they could be Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Gujrati or any other type of Asian continent person) but they are all bloody Indians ......

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

In 2001 you were sending emails?

Did you work for NASA?

Eh.

One of my email addresses has been in use since 1996

MSN


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email

Been about far longer

 

[Ubique]

In 2001 you were sending emails?

Did you work for NASA?

I was sending emails in 1995, admittedly some via SATCOM but also some via Compuserve dial-up - 2001 was the last time I used cash (ETA in UK) though, wasn't self employed until 2007

 

[8ob]

A business's bank charges will include a percentage for cash lodged.

Also very strange looks and stupid questions from the tellers if you try and deposit a few bricks of notes. Even the counting machines struggle with some of it.

Bob

 

[roblane65]

My local Indian takeaway does 15% discount for cash.

the greedy so and so's so they still want 5% of vat !