Ah- make the deal online, pickup in person with cash. Okay.
Yeah, sorry I wasn’t clear.
Bumped.
Is anyone else annoyed that almost always these days, when paying for restaurant food for takeout using a CC, that the CC machines always ask you if you want to add a tip or not?
I’ve been annoyed by that for a while more. Because of this new thread, I was reminded of this old thread.
And from the several posters in that thread who say they’ll put in the loose change from that order, there are still several people who pay by cash. Those Neanderthals!
I’ve had the same 100 shekel (about $30) bill in my wallet for the past two months. It’s basically there for emergencies - all my payments are done with my phone or occasionally, with my card (although I still use checks for tax and accounting stuff).
I like living in the future.
I was in England recently and you couldn’t buy even a coffee with cash. I also didn’t wind up with receipts for a lot of purchases since I didn’t want to give my email address, so it’s hard to tell whether any fraudulent charges were made. It seems to me that the convenience and decreased risk of robberies for businesses doesn’t offset my every purchase and location being tracked and monetized, or the risk of fraud and ending up away from home without a way to pay for anything. I’m also concerned about the creation of a class of disenfranchised people who don’t have cards.
Everyone I checked with in England said we should tip the housekeeping staff, but there was no way to add it to the room charge and the hotel desks didn’t have cash to break a note.
One of my pet peeves is the send-receipt-by-email option because it requires me to type in my email address using the onscreen keyboard of the payment terminal, while other customers are waiting to get served.
My FIL, born in NC in 1940, would habitually carry about $3000 in $100 bills at all times. It was not unusual for him to make relatively large purchases of major appliances, farm equipment, family dinners, etc., on the spot if an opportunity arose. (He was actually a businessperson, but his brother still lived on a nearby farm.)
I happened to need some cash for an emergency about 15 years ago and asked him if I could borrow some for the day. Turned out that he had stopped the practice because so many businesses would not accept $100 bills. He switched to $20 bills, but he naturally had to reduce the amount he carried to around $500…because 100+ $20 bills wouldn’t fit in his wallet.
He refused to wear a fanny pack.
I’ve never seen a receipt by email option. Receipt by text message, yes, that’s fairly common, but email?
Yes, email. Many places here in Canada offer that as an option, but I always decline. First, because I don’t want to be flooded with “special offers” from the retailer, which will happen (looking at you Air Canada and Marriott Hotels and even Wal-Mart), but because I want a hard copy that I don’t have to print out myself. Let them print out the paper receipt, and hand it to me.
Really, just about the only place I use cash now is at the local racetrack. You cannot bet with anything but cash, unless you have a credit voucher, which you can buy. It’s as good as cash at the betting windows, but it’s only good there.
Tipping housekeeping staff really isn’t common here, so not sure who you were asking (the hotel staff perhaps?).
They will always print you a receipt if you don’t want it emailed - they are obliged to at least ask you
Very common in the UK, shops love it for data capture. I always refuse and request a paper receipt which is still readily available. They just don’t always offer it as a first option, annoyingly.
Yes I see that too, here in San Francisco. It is annoying, especially so because my email address is not easy to type in. Most annoying!
Fortunately I usually have the option to text it to my cell phone. Much easier than my email to type in. But I don’t want my cell number to get into many more databases so fortunately I also have a Google Voice number and that’s what I always use for such things. It’s essentially a burner phone number and handy to have.
There are a few places (breweries and restaurants) where we stop often. Their systems remember my card and offer text receipt to the number they’ve saved. Very smooth. The text message gives an option for commenting on your experience, which I always use as a way to leave glad tidings for the bartender/server/brewer.
Plastic takes less space in my pocket than cash. I can walk around with enough credit cards to buy a very expensive car or a small house in a bad location. With $1000 bills so scarce that amount would completely fill a briefcase, as is the case for any large sum of cash when paid as a ransom.
The only thing I use my debit card for is to scrape the ice off of my windshield in the morning.
Same. I wish I could go back 15 years and pick a shorter domain name for our firm.
I just skip the receipt. It would end up in the trash before I got to my car in any event.
For some places my cell number (Google Voice) is connected to my CC. That’s very convenient. I wish I knew how to connect for the other places.
If paper, yes I agree. But the paperless receipt is sometimes nice to have, for expense reports and such.
Yeah, I get that. I don’t have to do expense reports.(I know many do) If it’s a work expense, I use my work card. Our bookkeeper figures it out.
Even better! Lucky you.
Cash and especially coin seem to have vanished.
I do carry 400 in cash for emergencies. I’ve been in a couple of emergency situations and there cash is king. With no electricity credit cards are useless, but cash is universal - small bills, don’t expect change.