I had ⏃ bit of trouble for ⏃ couple of years trying to use my visa card in the UK before the US started chipping them, something that I only imagine would have been harder if I didn't speak the language.
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I haven't used my card in an ATM machine for 6 months
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Originally posted by ad hoc View PostHowever quite a few places occasionally have times when "the card reader isn't working" (which usually means in truth "we'd like to hide today's transactions from the tax office")
No, I reckon the card machine really was fucked. If you want to avoid paying tax, yet still offer card paymenr, you get several card machines. It's that simple.
And if you don't accept cards, you get two tills.
(For the record: I don't have two tills. I don't even have one till. I have a cash box. Everything I buy is bought with a card. Everything I sell is in cash. I like paying tax as much as anybody else does, but I also like sleeping soundly at night.)
Last edited by treibeis; 04-05-2021, 22:22.
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- Mar 2008
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- Revelling In The Hole
- England, Chelsea and Tooting and Mitcham. And Surrey CCC. And Wimbledon Dons Speedway (RIP)
- Nairn's Cheese Oatcake
I've used cash twice recently: on one occasion to tip for a food delivery and on the other to pay a team of scaffolders.
The sums of money were dissimilar.
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Originally posted by Capybara View PostI don't know about Canada, but in the UK there is a limit on how much you can pay for by tapping.
Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostChip and PIN is not at all universal, and that's before one gets to overseas transaction charges and limits
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Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostAnd that is more convenient than cash?
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Originally posted by WOM View PostOne of my Mastercard issuers always wants to know, in surprising detail, where I'm going and how I'm getting there. The other has a 'nah, we good' policy. Very odd.
Isn't Mastercard just Mastercard, whoever the issuer is? I really don't know, both my cards are issued by my bank and I've never had any trouble with either of them anywhere. Nor have they ever been anything but helpful, including — maybe especially — when I had my identity stolen.
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GY isn't wrong about that
And no, MasterCard is very much not just MasterCard, particularly in this respect. Different issuers/banks can and do have widely different policies.Last edited by ursus arctos; 04-05-2021, 23:14.
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Mastercard is the merchant processor. They don't give two hoots whether it should be a transaction or not. They get paid by volume and the credit approval issuer based. Mastercard and Visa only get stuck with very specific types of fraud. The whole final drive to chip and pin was a day when the retailer would become responsible for any loss from card fraud when a transaction was not chip and pin compliant.
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Originally posted by TonTon View Post
Take your sarcasm and your homphobic shit and shove them right up your fucking arse so hard they come out of your fucking mouth.
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Originally posted by WOM View Post
I can only offer my sincerest apologies, TT. That wasn't what I thought I was doing and didn't realize it would be taken as such. I'm mortified and I'm sorry.
Might be worth a chat sometime about what happened there and how some of those things work.
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The UK has moved a big step closer to becoming a cashless society after official data showed that the number of payments made using notes and coins fell by 35% in 2020. Cash was only used for one in six payments, compared with a decade ago when it accounted for more than half of the total.
Changes in spending habits have been dramatically accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic, and 13.7 million people lived a largely cashless life last year – almost double the 7.4 million figure in 2019.
https://www.theguardian.com/business...ts-now-in-cash
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Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostThere's a graph at the link
Cheques still register, but have been an insignificant part of the total since 2010
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