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If the fans boycott the matches, refuse to buy merchandise and food. There would no be no football club.

Swansea fans should support a rival lower league club, where the cash would be accepted.

Bank could close fans accounts down, they can do what they like. Cash is one of the few freedoms we have that the moment.

Just wait until we are fully cashless there would be added charges left, right and centre.


My local record shop dealer refuses to take card payments because he has to pay more to the bank.

Cards are totally free to the user and save the retailer from having to deal with cash. Counting, security, bringing it to the bank etc. Tap and contactless payments are so easy, with receipts immediately available on your phone, that they're here for good. Although it'll be a while before cash is totally superseded.

Joe Turner wrote:
Cards are totally free to the user and save the retailer from having to deal with cash. Counting, security, bringing it to the bank etc. Tap and contactless payments are so easy, with receipts immediately available on your phone, that they're here for good. Although it'll be a while before cash is totally superseded.

Because handing over a note was SUCH hard work.

Wait until hackers/scammers get more sophisticated, the independent retailers and cafe's I go to on daily basis prefer cash. I don't have a smartphone and I never will. I have no need for one...why do I want more people spying on me? My clients and family know I never text them back, they have to call me or vice-versa.


www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/20/o...phone-marketing.html

Honey wrote:
Joe Turner wrote:
Cards are totally free to the user and save the retailer from having to deal with cash. Counting, security, bringing it to the bank etc. Tap and contactless payments are so easy, with receipts immediately available on your phone, that they're here for good. Although it'll be a while before cash is totally superseded.

Because handing over a note was SUCH hard work.

Barney is an idiot.

Joe Turner wrote:
Cards are totally free to the user and save the retailer from having to deal with cash. Counting, security, bringing it to the bank etc. Tap and contactless payments are so easy, with receipts immediately available on your phone, that they're here for good. Although it'll be a while before cash is totally superseded.

It's funny watching people getting phones out, finding apps or WiFi signals to pay for parking or shopping. I just get my wallet out and cash out and it takes me a few seconds. A lady asked me for change because her phone didn't work on the parking meter. I made a facestious comment like always. That I wasn't a teller for a bank. I told her to buy something from the shop nearby, if you want change but go the cash machine first.

Whilst she was doing that I was walking to back to my pickup to display ticket and on my way to do some shopping with my partner. When you walk with Mr Honey does he hold your hand? My partner refuses to walk unless I hold her hand.

For parking nowadays, there's no need to go near a meter or even get out of the car. Via the phone app (NCP or whatever), you just specify how long you want to stay. And your card is automatically debited with the cost; it, and the vehicle, are already registered. Traffic wardens' hand-held devices confirm the payment to them. All completely free, except for the parking charge.

I agree with Joe Turner but GM has some good points.

The potential for fraud is terrifying with cards.

hedda wrote:


The potential for fraud is terrifying with cards.

True.

But one aspect that can get lost is that as the tech ever increases so will the efforts of the banks etc to use it to prevent fraud.

Let's face it the potential.for fraud on cards has been there for a long time now, but mostly we get along fine...

Yes, card security and technology has improved dramatically in recent years, as has that of car parks. Apart from making payment simple, free apps will actually find and direct you to a vacant space. Saving you having to put your neck on a swivel; some cars (like mine) will then automatically park the car for you, leaving your hands free. Technology is there to be embraced.

Joe Turner wrote:
For parking nowadays, there's no need to go near a meter or even get out of the car. Via the phone app (NCP or whatever), you just specify how long you want to stay. And your card is automatically debited with the cost; it, and the vehicle, are already registered. Traffic wardens' hand-held devices confirm the payment to them. All completely free, except for the parking charge.

The time I have done fluffing about with that I could start shopping. I have have coins in my where the shift stick is. I have to walk past the meter to exit the car park where I am.


But one aspect that can get lost is that as the tech ever increases so will the efforts of the banks etc to use it to prevent fraud.

Criminals are always one step ahead Wyot, it's only illegal when they get caught! France has strict gun laws but AK's are still smuggled in and used by criminals.

I stick to cash, I had a letter from Halifax today that I am making too many cash withdrawals. I told them, I am going switch banks which I got an awkward pause and look from the teller. I said explained it's my hard earned money from grafting. Not sitting in a stuffy office or being a bum on benefits.

If someone is awkward to me, they do get it back no matter who it is.


I did have a nice chat with a bank manager inside a Coventry Building Society branch. I told him why I like to use cash he didn't have a problem with it.

Banks can close your account down and government can switch off your government controlled CBCD account could be switched off because you challenged the government agenda.

www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ottawa-protests...k-accounts-1.6355396

Green Man wrote:
The time I have done fluffing about with that I could start shopping.

Pressing three buttons on your phone! Instead of going to/queuing at the meter, having the right change - and returning to your vehicle to stick the ticket in the window?

Joe Turner wrote:
Yes, card security and technology has improved dramatically in recent years, as has that of car parks. Apart from making payment simple, free apps will actually find and direct you to a vacant space. Saving you having to put your neck on a swivel; some cars (like mine) will then automatically park the car for you, leaving your hands free. Technology is there to be embraced.

We find ourselves in agreement Barney!! As I journey into middle age I fight the urge to turn a blind eye on tech out of weariness and fear. Embrace it!

Joe Turner wrote:
Green Man wrote:
The time I have done fluffing about with that I could start shopping.

Pressing three buttons on your phone! Instead of going to/queuing at the meter, having the right change - and returning to your vehicle to stick the ticket in the window?

Easy for you, perhaps, but not so for others. Women alone , for instance definitely do not need to be staring at their phone in a car park. They are very often unsafe areas.

As we get older, some of us have dexterity or sight problems, or live in areas where we really shouldn't be waving a smartphone about.

There are many reasons why it is unsuitable for some.
I am glad you enjoy it, and hope you continue to do so, but best to have an alternative for those who need or want it, don't you think?

Green Man wrote:
Joe Turner wrote:
Cards are totally free to the user and save the retailer from having to deal with cash. Counting, security, bringing it to the bank etc. Tap and contactless payments are so easy, with receipts immediately available on your phone, that they're here for good. Although it'll be a while before cash is totally superseded.

It's funny watching people getting phones out, finding apps or WiFi signals to pay for parking or shopping. I just get my wallet out and cash out and it takes me a few seconds. A lady asked me for change because her phone didn't work on the parking meter. I made a facestious comment like always. That I wasn't a teller for a bank. I told her to buy something from the shop nearby, if you want change but go the cash machine first.

Whilst she was doing that I was walking to back to my pickup to display ticket and on my way to do some shopping with my partner. When you walk with Mr Honey does he hold your hand? My partner refuses to walk unless I hold her hand.

Not much no, but unless it is a symptom of insecurity and she wants to brand you as hers for all to see, just hold her hand, Greenman.

I knew a couple once who were always draped over each other, and once, when they had someone sitting in-between them at a dinner party, they ate their meals one handed and stretched the other round the back of the poor sod's chair so they could hold hands.

Joe Turner wrote:
Green Man wrote:
The time I have done fluffing about with that I could start shopping.

Pressing three buttons on your phone! Instead of going to/queuing at the meter, having the right change - and returning to your vehicle to stick the ticket in the window?

Such hardship...not!

What phone?

Wyot wrote:
Joe Turner wrote:
Yes, card security and technology has improved dramatically in recent years, as has that of car parks. Apart from making payment simple, free apps will actually find and direct you to a vacant space. Saving you having to put your neck on a swivel; some cars (like mine) will then automatically park the car for you, leaving your hands free. Technology is there to be embraced.

We find ourselves in agreement Barney!! As I journey into middle age I fight the urge to turn a blind eye on tech out of weariness and fear. Embrace it!

We are near the same age Wyot, however I refuse to be a puppet.

Honey wrote:
[quote]Green Man wrote:
[quote]Joe Turner wrote:


I knew a couple once who were always draped over each other, and once, when they had someone sitting in-between them at a dinner party, they ate their meals one handed and stretched the other round the back of the poor sod's chair so they could hold hands.

I knew a couple once who ate/sucked a peperami from one end each until they met loudly in the middle.

It shouldn't matter that they were the ugliest people in our set, but somehow, combined with the obscenity of their food choice and audible sensuality, it very much did.

Food and beauty are sacred things; and without meaning to, the ardent youngsters committed a dreadful sacrilege.

They didn't last the course...

Honey wrote:
Green Man wrote:
Joe Turner wrote:
Cards are totally free to the user and save the retailer from having to deal with cash. Counting, security, bringing it to the bank etc. Tap and contactless payments are so easy, with receipts immediately available on your phone, that they're here for good. Although it'll be a while before cash is totally superseded.

It's funny watching people getting phones out, finding apps or WiFi signals to pay for parking or shopping. I just get my wallet out and cash out and it takes me a few seconds. A lady asked me for change because her phone didn't work on the parking meter. I made a facestious comment like always. That I wasn't a teller for a bank. I told her to buy something from the shop nearby, if you want change but go the cash machine first.

Whilst she was doing that I was walking to back to my pickup to display ticket and on my way to do some shopping with my partner. When you walk with Mr Honey does he hold your hand? My partner refuses to walk unless I hold her hand.

Not much no, but unless it is a symptom of insecurity and she wants to brand you as hers for all to see, just hold her hand, Greenman.

I knew a couple once who were always draped over each other, and once, when they had someone sitting in-between them at a dinner party, they ate their meals one handed and stretched the other round the back of the poor sod's chair so they could hold hands.

The gooey stage only lasts a few months.

I do hold her hand a lot, more than I did with my ex's to be honest.

When she had one gin too many she says "His mine" to every dolly bird in the street. You would never of known she is an ex police dog handler who was involved in some famous drug raids.

Honey wrote:
Joe Turner wrote:
Green Man wrote:
The time I have done fluffing about with that I could start shopping.

Pressing three buttons on your phone! Instead of going to/queuing at the meter, having the right change - and returning to your vehicle to stick the ticket in the window?

Easy for you, perhaps, but not so for others. Women alone , for instance definitely do not need to be staring at their phone in a car park. They are very often unsafe areas.

As we get older, some of us have dexterity or sight problems, or live in areas where we really shouldn't be waving a smartphone about.

There are many reasons why it is unsuitable for some.
I am glad you enjoy it, and hope you continue to do so, but best to have an alternative for those who need or want it, don't you think?

Well said, there was time where we could hold our own Honey, when being confronted however the older we get the slower we are in fights unless you know some techniques which many don't. You have a good head on your shoulders and Mr Honey is one lucky man to have you!