Society & Culture Your first world problems

[FRUMPY]

Cash sucks. When I started going to pubs most didn't take card. If you were lucky there was an ATM in the corner you could get cash from. So you'd hand over a $20 note for your $7.40 pint (sigh, those were the days...) and end up with $2.60 in coins in your pocket and a $10 note. By the time you get home you've got kebab garlic sauce on your shirt and a fist full of coins in your pocket.

Way easier now to just tap and go, quicker for the staff too. Newer places like Optus Stadium are card only, so now you can get caught out if you only have cash. But who does that?

Tradies

 

[ioppolo]

Still love me some cash. Nothing like the look of inconvenience from a bartender when you pay for your $11.50 pint with a tenner and fiver.

 

[Syd]

Cash sucks. When I started going to pubs most didn't take card. If you were lucky there was an ATM in the corner you could get cash from. So you'd hand over a $20 note for your $7.40 pint (sigh, those were the days...) and end up with $2.60 in coins in your pocket and a $10 note. By the time you get home you've got kebab garlic sauce on your shirt and a fist full of coins in your pocket.

Way easier now to just tap and go, quicker for the staff too. Newer places like Optus Stadium are card only, so now you can get caught out if you only have cash. But who does that?

Your answer is here: https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/old-people-give-me-the-shits.1234611/

 

[rank and file]

Still love me some cash. Nothing like the look of inconvenience from a bartender when you pay for your $11.50 pint with a tenner and fiver.

Got this taxi driver in town and you give him $10 for a $9.50 fare and he pulls out the
calculator.Nice fella but a bit thick.
I'm surprised he can operate the calculator.

 

[Chief]

Turkish bread stuck in the toaster again... !

 

[Hawk Dork]

Turkish bread stuck in the toaster again... !

grrrr
I use a flat wooden stirrer to get it out

 

[Chief]

grrrr
I use a flat wooden stirrer to get it out

Unplug and use a fork.

 

[Pistol Night]

Unplug and use a fork.

Or leave it plugged in and play high stakes, adults only Operation

 

[Hawk Dork]

Unplug and use a fork.

No need to unplug
a few bucks at Kmart great for stirring food too

 

[PT Bar None]

Got this taxi driver in town and you give him $10 for a $9.50 fare and he pulls out the
calculator.Nice fella but a bit thick.
I'm surprised he can operate the calculator.

Taxis one of the places I always use cash. Had my card skimmed once too often.

 

[Run n Spread]

Still love me some cash. Nothing like the look of inconvenience from a bartender when you pay for your $11.50 pint with a tenner and fiver.

Know some bars where it is cash only. In fact most cafes or bars I go to prefer cash still

 

[PT Bar None]

Know some bars where it is cash only. In fact most cafes or bars I go to prefer cash still

No merchant fees with cash.
That's why I always feel a bit of an arse tap and go-ing every pint individually.

Not that the cashier making minimum wage cares about merchant fees though.

 

[FRUMPY]

Know some bars where it is cash only. In fact most cafes or bars I go to prefer cash still

Places like Cafe's still pay a lot of their employees wages by Cash. They may pay them the minimum by actual 'wages' (banked wages) then give them extra in cash. My missus ex does this (thus doesnt have to pay SFA child support).

The owner doesnt have to pay Super on the extra wages etc and the employee doesnt have to pay tax. A lot of 'international' employees are paid this way. Hospitality is rife with cash payments

 

[Perth gal]

I thought this was illegal.

 

[Scotland]

I bought a coffee by card yesterday. What sort of merchant fees are they looking at for a $4.50 transaction?

Back in the day it was always a $10 or $20 eftpos minimum but I think tech has improved and costs have gone down.

 

[ioppolo]

Some small town businesses lose money on tap and go payments. Cowaramup (10km north of Margaret River) was where I found this out after a couple of small business owners told my partner and I the same story about tap and go and what effect it has on smaller country towns.

 

[craigos]

You have to move with the times. Have a $10 minimum and build the cost of the transaction into your pricing like you would any other expense.

 

[Perth gal]

I just signed up for a new lease . They only accepted cash or bank cheque , no card facilities.

 

[ioppolo]

I just signed up for a new lease . They only accepted cash or bank cheque , no card facilities.

Yeah that's kinda ****ed. I'm all for cash but sometimes EFTPOS is completely necessary

 

[Scotland]

For big purchases bank cheques are preferred because they are trustworthy. If you buy a car from someone and just transfer say $5000 electronically there's always a chance you can contact the bank and cancel it before it clears etc. If you give them a personal cheque there's no guarantee you have any money at all.

For signing a lease with a presumed payment of around $1,000-2,000 as part of an ongoing payment schedule I would've thought asking for cash or a bank cheque is OTT.

I once sold a car for cash (no issue, was only a worth a couple of thousand) and the guy gave me mostly $20s. Was expecting $100s or $50s but it's all legal tender so whatever.

 

[Run n Spread]

I bought a coffee by card yesterday. What sort of merchant fees are they looking at for a $4.50 transaction?

Back in the day it was always a $10 or $20 eftpos minimum but I think tech has improved and costs have gone down.

Depends on the deal. Generally a monthly fee and 2-5%. Extra if different banks are involved. E.g they're with NAB you ANZ. Why on big ticket items e.g a flight the retailer will pass the fee onto the customer

 

[Hawk Dork]

For big purchases bank cheques are preferred because they are trustworthy. If you buy a car from someone and just transfer say $5000 electronically there's always a chance you can contact the bank and cancel it before it clears etc. If you give them a personal cheque there's no guarantee you have any money at all.

For signing a lease with a presumed payment of around $1,000-2,000 as part of an ongoing payment schedule I would've thought asking for cash or a bank cheque is OTT.

I once sold a car for cash (no issue, was only a worth a couple of thousand) and the guy gave me mostly $20s. Was expecting $100s or $50s but it's all legal tender so whatever.

I bought my car on credit card and got a free trip OS on the points

 

[Admiral Byng]

So I’ve just realised a jar of Vegemite I opened a few days ago is labeled “Bartymite” and contains a picture of the tennis player in question. I know it is only a gimmick, but somehow I feel unhappy about this.

 

[Bring back Drum]

When it’s bin day & I don’t collect them in time & some ****er walking his/her dog put their plastic bag full of dog shit in my bin.

If that’s not illegal then it should be because it feckin stinks & is just gross!

Edit; am I the only one this bothers?

 

[FRUMPY]

So I’ve just realised a jar of Vegemite I opened a few days ago is labeled “Bartymite” and contains a picture of the tennis player in question. I know it is only a gimmick, but somehow I feel unhappy about this.

Hope you dont choke on it