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| From | "Commander Kinsey" <CFKinsey@military.org.jp> |
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| Newsgroups | uk.finance |
| Subject | Re: Why can't we get rid of 1p, 2p, 5p coins? |
| Date | 2019-05-17 21:14 +0100 |
| Organization | X |
| Message-ID | <op.z1yaiwdqwdg98l@desktop-ga2mpl8.lan> (permalink) |
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On Fri, 17 May 2019 05:51:31 +0100, Chris in Makati <mail@nospam.com> wrote: > On Thu, 16 May 2019 16:09:15 +0100, "Commander Kinsey" > <CFKinsey@military.org.jp> wrote: > >> On Thu, 16 May 2019 13:17:44 +0100, Stephen Wolstenholme <steve@easynn.com> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 16 May 2019 00:33:56 +0100, "Commander Kinsey" >>> <CFKinsey@military.org.jp> wrote: >>> >>>> It would have been more hassle to do some kind of bank transfer. >>> >>> It's a lot easier than searching for coins. >> >> She didn't search, she just took a fiver out of her purse. >> >>> I pay my gardener and my main carer by bank transfer. It's been setup >>> in my Lloyd Internet account for years. My wife has tried to get her >>> RBS Internet account to do the same thing but it's so "secure" that >>> it's impossible to use! >> >> Way too much hassle. Handing someone a twenty quid note is way easier. I wouldn't mind if they could take cards, but portable card readers cost too much. > > That's fine if it happens to be an exact number of Pounds, but what if > the eBay item was £15.50? One of you would have had to search around > for the right change to give. No, somebody would just say keep the change. And people tend to have coins kicking about. Cash is so much easier than farting around logging into bank accounts. > This is one of the annoying things that happens in shops. People in > front of you in the queue spend ages counting out notes and coins to > hand to the cashier. Nope. Last time I used cash, I just handed a few £20 notes to the cashier and got a handful of change back. Took no longer than using a card. She was getting the coins from the till while I was putting the goods in the trolley anyway. > I just tap my contactless card on the reader and Actually, you don't tap it. There's no physical detection of contact with the pad. You wave it nearby. > I'm out the door before the little old lady has ahead of me has got > her change back into her purse. Contactless cards are useless - who spends a small enough amount for that?! £30 I think it is? Most supermarket shops are over £50.
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