Mickstup
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- Location
- Shropshire / welsh marches
Never mind the Gvt or Companies, the Wife now knows exactly which Pub and when I got there, when I use a card. Cash is good for all reasons.
Cash is King or Not?
- Thread starter Frank-the-Wool
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- Location
- South West
I love using cash, I can buy things with out the long haired general knowing about it before I’m even out of the shop!
However I seem to be like the royals and very rarely have any cash on me now a days, it’s far to convenient to have your cards on your phone and only need to have one thing in your pocket.
However I seem to be like the royals and very rarely have any cash on me now a days, it’s far to convenient to have your cards on your phone and only need to have one thing in your pocket.
Over 20yrs retailing, cash preferred method of payment when/if possible.
Have yet to be given or even seen a counterfeit note.
Maybe I'm just lucky, or maybe the dangers of it are hugely over-stated.
Plenty of folks conned out of tens of thousands in cashless transactions though!
Netherfield
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- Location
- West Yorkshire
Cash is king in the drug trade.
In the farm shop we used to refuse Scottish notes ,many an argument ensued, my answer was 'because it's the banks in Scotland that issue them, there's quite a few variations, so you can't expect us to be able to recognise them all', even the staff at the local HSBC, before they shut it, had to be careful what they took in because they had the same problem with identification.
In the farm shop we used to refuse Scottish notes ,many an argument ensued, my answer was 'because it's the banks in Scotland that issue them, there's quite a few variations, so you can't expect us to be able to recognise them all', even the staff at the local HSBC, before they shut it, had to be careful what they took in because they had the same problem with identification.
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- Location
- South West
I got lumbered with a couple of grand in £20’s few years ago. Took a fair while to get shot of them and claw my money back but I do feel abit sorry for the shops I used them in! Sainsbury’s can take the hit as far as I’m concerned
- Location
- South West
Netherfield
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- Location
- West Yorkshire
Some Big Issue sellers carry a card machine now.
- Location
- Westish Suffolk
Cash only in the Turkish barber empire too.
Same with drive thru car washes ( allegedly, as too tight to use them )
What about laydees of the night, do they take cards now?
Same with drive thru car washes ( allegedly, as too tight to use them )
What about laydees of the night, do they take cards now?
How about charity collections etc, monthly I collect alms at a meeting some put in a quid some ten, all cash, can imagine the time it would take if I had to do 70 people by card . If I wanted to go to a shop for a newspaper etc it must be a nightmare trying to reconcile a shops takings.
I wonder where they would swipe the card ( well someone had to say it ).
On a serious note a group of us went on a boys trip round the sites they filmed a lot of the James bond films, the mountain passes, cable cars etc, my wife gave me her resolute card as I didn't have many euro's, we stopped at a McDonald's on the way through Reims and before I had even had the meal brought out she said enjoy lunch
. It's all a big effort to track us .
borderterribles
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- Location
- South Shropshire
I would say that there are fewer forgeries about nowadays, but still some. The week that the new £10 notes were released, I was in a "value" shop in North Shropshire and paid for my purchases with one. The cashier scanned it for authenticity. I asked as to whether she had found any forgeries amongst the new ones. She told me that she'd found two,that week!
Y Fan Wen
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- Location
- N W Snowdonia
It has taken until now for us to really feel the loss of National Girobank which the wretched MT sold off along with so much else to our lasting disadvantage.
primmiemoo
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- Location
- Devon
Paid cash at 4 places in one day last week ~ for a BigIshoo, for some bunches of Isles of Scilly narcissus, at the fruit stall in the street market, and for unplanned chish & fips on the way home late (nobody wanted to cook that evening). Had to use a card to buy a greetings card from its artist, but only because she didn't have enough change for cash.
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
They most certainly do. My son was at University in Manchester the dealers would hand out business cards in pubs. Apple pay is quite popular.Yet to see a drug dealer offering a card option
d williams
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I think bit coin is a optionYet to see a drug dealer offering a card option
- Location
- North of Perth
That's ridiculous they all have the queen's heed on them! Pretty poor excuse tbh.
Netherfield
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- Location
- West Yorkshire
So by that logic the forgeries would not not have the queens head on them.
We're talking many years ago, and had been warned by the bank there were quite a lot of dud notes being passed around.
Fact is even your own people don't always seem to like them
Quote from the Committee of Scottish Bankers:-
The legal position with regard to Scottish Banknotes is as follows:
Scottish Banknotes are legal currency – i.e. they are approved by the UK Parliament. However, Scottish Bank notes are not Legal Tender, not even in Scotland. In fact, no banknote whatsoever (including Bank of England notes!) qualifies for the term 'legal tender' north of the border and the Scottish economy seems to manage without that legal protection.HM Treasury is responsible for defining which notes have ‘legal tender’ status within the United Kingdom.
A whole batch of Scottish notes with Queen Nicola's head on them had to be destroyed.
