Cash

R

ronk

Lifer
 Durham
A cashless society means no cash. Zero
It doesn’t mean mostly cashless and you can still use a ‘wee bit of cash here & there’. Cashless means fully digital, fully traceable, fully controlled
Those who support a cashless society aren’t fully aware of what they are asking for.
A cashless society means:
* No more purchases off marketplace unless you want to risk bank transfer fraud.
* No more car boot sales.
* No more cash donations to hungry homeless you pass.
* No more cash slipped into the hands of a child from their grandparent.
* No more money in birthday cards.
* No more piggy banks or tooth fairy for your child.
* No more selling bits & pieces from your home that you no longer want/need for a bit of cash in return.
* Less choices of where you purchase based on affordability.
What a cashless society does guarantee: --
* Banks have full control of every single penny you own.
* Every transaction you make is recorded.
* All your movements & actions are traceable.
* Access to your money can be blocked at the click of a button when/if banks need ‘clarification’ from you which could take weeks, a hundred questions answered & five hundred passwords.
* If your transactions are deemed in any way questionable, by those who create the questions, your money will be frozen, ‘for your own good’.

If you are a customer, pay with cash.
If you are a shop owner, remove those ridiculous signs that ask people to pay by card.

Cash is a legal tender, it is our right to pay with cash.
Banks are making it increasingly difficult to lodge cash.

Pay with cash & please say no to a cashless society while you still have a choice.
 
Wow.

A few years ago there was a homeless person outside Costa in the high street (not that that’s relevant) and he had one of those cards readers linked to a mobile, Zettle?

“Sorry mate, no change”
“That’s ok sir, I take all credit cards and Apple Pay”

😂😂😂😂😂

I think a big risk to cash is online shopping. We used to pay for our weekly shop with cash (once the money in the monthly food purse was gone, that’s it for the month!) Now that we order online, that’s obviously not an option.
 
I’m sure it’s a bit tongue in cheek today - but who knows what’s around the corner if things change as they have done over the last few years?
 
It might turn out like the paperless office.

ie....never.

I’m a sucker for convenience, so electronic payments are right up my street, but it does desensitise the cost of things...

I think cash will remain having its place, but as you say, who knows where technology will take us.
 
My neighbour will have to pay tax if we become cashless. That's no good, the poor bugger will have to sell at least one of his four cars and reduce his foreign holidays to three a year. :lol:
Pros and cons...
 
In view of what happened just over a year ago I'm more than happy paying by card, but my barber's doesn't have a card reader so it's cash only.

And cash is much easier for buying and selling Z4 parts. :lol:

Cash might be less widely used but I'm hopeful it won't disappear altogether. After all cheque books managed to survive in the end!
 
My son was in Starbucks the other day and said another customer had ordered a coffee and something to eat. He offered cash and was told that it was card only, he only had cash. He was allowed to keep the drink but not the food.
Don't think I will be rushing to SB's any time soon :thumbsdown:
 
Never really used cash for the last 5 years. I had a £20 note in my car 4 years ago for emergencies that never happened and I have moved it into 3 different cars over that time. It is still there. I haven't had a proper wallet for 30 years. I use cards or my phone for transactions. Love the progress of the digital age since PCs came out in 1981 or thereabouts.
 
ihadablackdog said:
Wow.

A few years ago there was a homeless person outside Costa in the high street (not that that’s relevant) and he had one of those cards readers linked to a mobile, Zettle?

“Sorry mate, no change”
“That’s ok sir, I take all credit cards and Apple Pay”

😂😂😂😂😂

I think a big risk to cash is online shopping. We used to pay for our weekly shop with cash (once the money in the monthly food purse was gone, that’s it for the month!) Now that we order online, that’s obviously not an option.
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Then he is not homeless - I would have walked away.

Used online for the last 12 months but have now started to go back to the shops and local indoor market and even they will take card but I still prefer cash, especially when dealing with traders or garages :D
 
I can't ever see a time when bartering will stop. Ie people will always be able to use an equivalent object of value to each side of the transaction. Swapping a bag of spuds for and hours labour ect.

The day they pass a law that taxes all gifts. That is the day to worry about.
 
ihadablackdog said:
It might turn out like the paperless office.

ie....never.
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It already is in some countries - Iceland is basically is basically a cashless society and hasn't fallen apart.
 
I don’t want a cashless society is it will cause problems down the line. For example I sold my car yesterday and have a considerable amount of money sat in my account and wish to put some into long term savings (premium Bonds) and also transfer some money to my wife. However my bank who I have been with for 40 years will only allow me to transfer a maximum of 5k in anyone 24hr period. This is extremely inconvenient ! Maybe it’s time to rethink my bank which is NatWest?. I have always used cash when paying for cars privately as I find “cash is king” when doing a deal!
 
Ole gits rule said:
ihadablackdog said:
Wow.

A few years ago there was a homeless person outside Costa in the high street (not that that’s relevant) and he had one of those cards readers linked to a mobile, Zettle?

“Sorry mate, no change”
“That’s ok sir, I take all credit cards and Apple Pay”

😂😂😂😂😂

I think a big risk to cash is online shopping. We used to pay for our weekly shop with cash (once the money in the monthly food purse was gone, that’s it for the month!) Now that we order online, that’s obviously not an option.
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Then he is not homeless - I would have walked away.
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I didn’t give him any money, I thought exactly the same and thought it was strange, but funny as well.

Don’t get me wrong, I do sometimes give people on the streets money or buy them a drink. Normally big issue sellers, I might give them a few pounds (I’ve been known to take £10 out and go back to them) and don’t take a magazine, but that is rare and a few years since I last did it.

“Apparently” nowadays you aren’t meant to give money directly, instead donate to a homeless charity.
 
Years since I've used cash and the way things are going since I've been in any shop, closest is a post office and dropping the car off for a service in the past year everything regarding consumables is bought online now and will continue the same.

Tim.
 
I’ve got £100 in my phone case but it’s been there for a year or more now- it’s only the window cleaner / gardener who gets cash. That comes from the shrapnel pot on the mantle piece.
 
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