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11th August 2020, 21:26 | #11 |
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Alot of my customers now pay by bacs, which means I dont have to spend 3 hours every Friday night doing my collecting. Some still pay cash especially the elderly and those who dont trust internet banking . Trouble is with bacs, it means as thete is no cash on completion of work, it means the customer then pays when they feel loke it.
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11th August 2020, 21:28 | #12 |
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May I say my question was more about my curiosity about retailers, at least those I visited today, being perfectly willing to take both cash or cards from customers but their outside cash machines were all out of order. So I saw people unable to get cash on demand. Hence the reference to 'Greece'.
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11th August 2020, 21:31 | #13 |
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I don't like using my card for everything, yes I use it for a tank of fuel and the weekly shop but if I buy a pint I pay cash for it like an ice cream.
Its all ok until the system goes wrong, when the card system has a blip what do you do then? I put some fuel in my bike last year and the machine in the petrol station rejected my card, the girl asked if I had another card and I only put one card in my pocket on my bike, luckily I had the cash. There was plenty of credit on the card and when I got home I rung the card company and they apologised and put a £20 credit on my card. |
11th August 2020, 23:08 | #14 |
Gets stuck in
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Took the better half out for a meal at her favourite pub in St Ives a couple of weeks ago. At the very full station car park, both cash machines out of order. Payment however must be made to avoid a ticket. If you can't pay, don't stay.
Wandered all over the car park and couldn't get a signal. Risked it and went to join partner in Hotel. No cash being accepted at the bar. Set up tab on my only card. Shown table. While waiting for very slow service (furloughed staff, minimum on duty, all wearing visors or masks, socially distance tables) I managed to get a signal and pay the car park. Sign on table recommending we download the new app and order on that. Did as instructed, and round of drinks in 90 secs. Quite impressed. Went to order the main meal. Card now rejected. Shortly afterwards waiter appeared, so abandoned the app method, verbally ordered but left wondering how we pay with a non-functioning card. Meal arrived, then a text from RBS 'Your card has been used in an unknown location'. Text menu was followed and finally card unblocked in time to use at the finish. So much unwelcome stress. We won't be risking going back for some time. The Banks have us all over a barrel. Total elimination of cash is their wet dream. Every transaction earning them a commission, every trader forced to accept them as a silent partner. And they can pull the plug on anyone when it suits, and our experience when tech fails for whatever reason |
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12th August 2020, 07:29 | #16 |
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As to being called "mate" all the time, I agree, not professional. I had to phone my insurance company last night and it was all "mate this and that" at one point I thought he was going to call me "bruth" but seemed to stop himself!
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I would have normally sent such an item 1st signed, but the last time I did that the parcel took eight days to arrive. The woman behind the counter looked a little surprised when I pulled a handful of coins out of my pocket to pay. I've a table booked at a local steakhouse in a couple of weeks for me and my good lady..........it remains to see what that experience goes, I've no app, no card and money to spend. |
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12th August 2020, 08:19 | #19 |
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I heard somewhere that Asda charge £1 on top of your fuel purchase at their unmanned, or pay by card pumps at manned petrol stations if you use a card.
Can anyone confirm this is the case...or not ? If it is, that's awful, fuel is expensive enough without being charged for the privilege of buying it. |
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