Cashless society

[stonerblue]

So on a £100 transaction (probs my average invoice) id be charged £7.80?

Can also do invoices and lots of other clever stuff

 

[Blue Mist]

Do brothels take cards now?

Only the good ones.

 

[Bluesince1979]

Can also do invoices and lots of other clever stuff

My biggest issue when i tried it was a decent connection

 

[Blue Mist]

Let's pretend for a moment we are in the Sub Forum - The Politics Shite one.
Farage has had his bank account cancelled by Coutts. Forget he is a disgusting prick who should be dumped on a remote Hebridean Island, when there is no cash and your bank don't like you subscribing to the Socialist Worker Party, could you end up like him ?

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Let's pretend for a moment we are in the Sub Forum - The Politics Shite one.
Farage has had his bank account cancelled by Coutts. Forget he is a disgusting prick who should be dumped on a remote Hebridean Island, when there is no cash and your bank don't like you subscribing to the Socialist Worker Party, could you end up like him ?

I'm not sure there are many subscribers of the SWP who use private banks let alone Coutts.

There will always be exchangeable physical tokens of value , the Italian mafia use out of circulation lira between themselves.

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Do brothels take cards now?

You can definitely swipe

 

[PragueBlue]

Almost never use cash anymore. Only the barber's and window cleaner that I can think of. It's going to end up a cashless society, just a case of when.

 

[Blue Mist]

I'm not sure there are many subscribers of the SWP who use private banks let alone Coutts.

There will always be exchangeable physical tokens of value , the Italian mafia use out of circulation lira between themselves.

I accept Coutts is a private bank, i am talking later, in years to come, when they could dictate what we do. If we ignore the Co-Op bank that had a coke sniffing prostitute loving bloke in charge, all banks are of the right wing persuasion, business is king etc. What is to stop them doing a reverse Farage because your politics are wrong.
The reason your voting card has a unique number on it is to tell Special Branch who voted Communist. OK we've moved on, but they have always monitored us. Banks could do the same.

 

[BlueMonkey79]

Worst thing that happened was contact payments in pubs.

When I used to hand over a £20 note, I knew the value of that.......now all this tap tap tap malarkey, it's too easy to spend money
Also, in a pub, when they say "5.60" or whatever, how many of us actually check the amount on the card thing??

Oh yeah - and with ATM's disappearing from the high street, what also gets on my tits are these cash machines in corner shops etc that charge me £2.75 (or whatever) to draw some money out

The way my phone is set up if I either pay on my card or via Google pay I get a message pop up on my phone instantly, telling me exactly how much the round was. So I can see pretty quickly if they are trying it on.

 

[Stephen230]

Let's pretend for a moment we are in the Sub Forum - The Politics Shite one.
Farage has had his bank account cancelled by Coutts. Forget he is a disgusting prick who should be dumped on a remote Hebridean Island, when there is no cash and your bank don't like you subscribing to the Socialist Worker Party, could you end up like him ?

Thousands of ordinary people have always had their bank accounts shut for various reasons, with no interest from the press.

There’s always a bank out there who’ll give you an equivalent to a child’s account so you can function

Farage himself quietly admitted on day 1 that they’d offered him a personal account in another one of their group’s bank.

Not defending banks. But the only thing that’s changed here is a high profile person in the media has been affected.