Companies won't take cash?

[Clive]

businesses not paying their tax properly mean those of us that do all pay more tax

 

[bluebell]

thats true about a trademan saying pay me cash , no i want a proper bill with vat if applicable to put through my accounts please

 

[bluebell]

ive said this many times, but ill say it again ? THE BLACK ECONOMY IS BOOMING

 

[DeeGee]

If I had taken goods to a counter and the vendor refused to take cash I would just put the exact amount of cash on the counter and walk out with the goods. Let them phone the plod if they want to.

 

[Highland Mule]

If I had taken goods to a counter and the vendor refused to take cash I would just put the exact amount of cash on the counter and walk out with the goods. Let them phone the plod if they want to.

If you did that to me, I would do so. You can’t force a sale like that.

 

[Paddington]

"I'll just get you an invoice, sir, make it all legal an' that.
Nora, where's the invoice book ?
Oh, I'll write one on paper, have we a pen that works ?
Where's me glasses ?
You'll pay cash ,sir?
I'll knock a tenner off then. "

 

[Daddy Pig]

If you did that to me, I would do so. You can’t force a sale like that.

I think plod have more important things to deal with at the moment so you might have a long wait for them to turn up. I think @DeeGee would be long gone by the time they arrived.

 

[Highland Mule]

I think plod have more important things to deal with at the moment so you might have a long wait for them to turn up. I think @DeeGee would be long gone by the time they arrived.

Probably right. So I’d just think he was a knob and not let him in the store the next time.

 

[som farmer]

a bank note, is a cheque, but guaranteed, by the bank of england, all sorts of people, want to ban cash, because it is simply not traceable, no one can keep 'track' of it. This, leads to the black economy, which takes money away from those 'audited' businesses, and the taxman, vat etc. But, it is legal tender, if a business wont take your cash, walk away, if it suits you, it's not your loss. The local chinese take away, is cash only, theres an ATM, less than 40 meters from them !

 

[puppet]

a bank note, is a cheque, but guaranteed, by the bank of england, all sorts of people, want to ban cash, because it is simply not traceable, no one can keep 'track' of it.

That's interesting as if you transfer money electronically to a fraudster then the bank will say they have no way of tracing that either.

 

[roscoe erf]

Does anyone really carry cash though. I use my phone for pretty much everything from a coffee to a new combine belt

I cannot actually remember the last time I handed over real money, maybe for an Ice cream at the coast

yes

 

[roscoe erf]

ive said this many times, but ill say it again ? THE BLACK ECONOMY IS BOOMING

you want to be carful saying that in public

 

[Tim G]

An old boy in the village went to B & Q to buy something, it was £5 so he went to hand over a fiver and they refused it. He didn't have a bank card on him, just cash. The woman on the check out then asked the next customer if they would take the fiver and pay for his item with theirs. So the woman took the fiver off him and handed it to the next customer!

 

[valtra]

I think they have to take cash because it's legal tender they can try refuse it but they still have to take it, as I understand it, also if my goods are over a certain amount and I have to tap my pin into the machine like hundreds of folk before me then is that not a huge risk of possibly catching something

 

[Netherfield]

Window Cleaner, barber, Nieces lad who helped me clear dads house all want cash.

Mother in law who's 95 this year gets her pension paid into an account, then draws it out in cash, then gives that to the Mrs, her sister or the nieces who fetch her shopping for her, when she was in hospital some years ago having a stent fitted, the Mrs was collecting her pension, I was paying her bills online and we ended up with £1500 cash kicking about, which I then had to take to town and put in our bank account because they'd shut the local branches down.

 

[anzani]

If I had taken goods to a counter and the vendor refused to take cash I would just put the exact amount of cash on the counter and walk out with the goods. Let them phone the plod if they want to.

Not a police matter. Leaving with the goods WITHOUT paying is. Not that they bother very much.

 

[ACEngineering]

noticed recently many small shops etc wont take cash only can pay on credit card ? i personally dont think thats right or should be unlawful to do so ? i see the point that if say you wanted to make large purchase but the money laundering law covers that im taking about sums of £200 or less comments please ?

Business dont like cash for many reasons as stated but the MAIN reason is that someone has to then go to a bank to pay it in. Most Businesses get charged heavily by the bank for paying in cash unless they have there account set up for it which most dont.

Electronic bacs payments for most are free.
For me if I pay a cheque in the bank it's £1 per cheque. I've not been to the bank since end of February!
Instead I have mostly used the banks Phone App where you take a picture of cheque to pay it in, this costs me nothing but only up to £500 or I think they recently increased the limit to accept up to £1000??? I can pay in up to 20 cheques per day on the phone app if I needed too.
For larger cheques I have posted them using local post office which is alot easier than going in to town which imo due to current conditions I avoid as much as possible. Only been in to town 3 times I think since end of February! And 2 of them was to the Vets!

Cash to most businesses is just a pain in the arse imo!

 

[startinghandle]

No cash at Charlies because securicor who collect will not handle cash and that came from manager

 

[anzani]

a bank note, is a cheque, but guaranteed, by the bank of england, all sorts of people, want to ban cash, because it is simply not traceable, no one can keep 'track' of it. This, leads to the black economy, which takes money away from those 'audited' businesses, and the taxman, vat etc. But, it is legal tender, if a business wont take your cash, walk away, if it suits you, it's not your loss. The local chinese take away, is cash only, theres an ATM, less than 40 meters from them !

Once had a shop next to such. All wholesalers required cash on delivery from the takeaway. Open for trade Tues-Sat.
Sunday was a trip to the casino in Brighton who fed and 'watered' them, and opened the tables. Monday closed all day to sleep it off!

 

[Netherfield]

Thats' why supermarkets love to give cash back, although I imagine the supermarkets have arrangements for cash movements, on and off the premises.