ABP payments

[DRC]

Im at the stage of a cheque is involved I won’t deal with you unless I really have to , it’s a days event for me to pay the dammed things in and I have gone years without receiving or using one.

The rare occasions I get one , I pop it in the post with a paying in slip . No need to actually go to the bank .
Any cheques under £500 , can be paid in by taking a pic of the front and back of the cheque on your iPad .

 

[irish dom]

Why do ABP insist on cheque payment, its a nice feeling getting the cheque in the post but seems a archaic way of doing it. Apparently there are a large number of cheques that have never been banked maybe this is why they do it as a BACS cant go missing. Surely its only a matter of time before cheques are no longer accepted.

Factory agent told me 5 grand a week NEVER gets cashed in the factory we use. People dying getting sick or somehow fordetting all about it(WTF)

 

[beefandsleep]

Factory agent told me 5 grand a week NEVER gets cashed in the factory we use. People dying getting sick or somehow fordetting all about it(WTF)

Aaaand, there’s your answer. Sly old barsteward.

 

[CopperBeech]

I know of a farmer who sold 15k worth of breeding stock ( ewes ) on SM to a farmer hundreds of miles away, the seller gave the buyer his bank details for an online payment and the buyer duly paid the 15k the next day then called to say a lorry would be on farm the following day to collect said sheep, seller checked his bank account and no money had been paid in...............


Turn's out the seller had given the buyer the wrong bank account details and that the details they had given were someone' else's bank account, well to cut a long story short it took 2 weeks before the account holders who had been paid the money in error agreed to pay it back to the buyer but the bank had told the buyer that if the person who had been paid in error refused to refund the money then they wouldn't do anything and the buyer would have to write off that 15k!

I never really get this its fairly simple to avoid. I recently bought a load of store lambs and draft ewes off one farm, and had a fairly hefty bill to pay via back so employed the safe tactic. Standard policy is you give me the details and I pay an amount into your account, it clears very very quickly and you let me know what I paid in and that its arrived and then I send the rest.

 

[Poorbuthappy]

Online payments have got better now in that you have to match account name with number.

 

[Estate fencing.]

I never really get this its fairly simple to avoid. I recently bought a load of store lambs and draft ewes off one farm, and had a fairly hefty bill to pay via back so employed the safe tactic. Standard policy is you give me the details and I pay an amount into your account, it clears very very quickly and you let me know what I paid in and that its arrived and then I send the rest.

That what I now always do when sending to new accounts, send them a fiver then send the rest when they have received that.
Thank god the days of cheques are almost over, the only ones I now get is from local market but only send 3 big load there a year and the rest is bits and pieces so is under a grand so I can do that on my phone.
I did how ever write a cheque in the summer for something because I thought the man receiving wouldn't be bothered to cash a cheque for a "measly" £1200 and as it turned he couldn't.