Don’t Kill Cash Petition

Oldnproud

Here in the countryside, people sell a few excess eggs or fruit / veg outside their homes for next to nothing when they have a glut. I am sure that they are making no profit as such. No one would bother doing this with the hassle of card or phone payment. What a shame it would be to lose an old tradition like this if cash disappeared.

@Oldnproud

have you seen this advert for a guy who stops at a roadside stall to buy some potatoes?

youtu.be/YT8RXgFDbA4

In our SME we take cash, credit card or debit card, a sale is a sale…

They do here too. And flowers and honey. They make very little but it all helps and buyers appreciate fresh produce. It depends on the good old honesty box for which you need cash. I really don’t see cash disappearing in our lifetimes, but I feel that businesses should remain free to require payment by card if they wish.

Perhaps we should refuse to purchase unless we are allowed to use cash. I can understand a situation like a Nespresso outlet situated in the middle aisle of a busy shopping mall refusing to take cash due to their vulnerability. However, the same refusal was made in Peter Jones (John Lewis) where another Nespresso concession is available. We went to the V&Aand lined up for something to eat and again at the Dulwich Gallery etc.; all refusing cash. I use cash in the local Co-Op, pharmacy etc. I must admit on these occasions I do feel like a dinosaur.

Callistemon Our church already has most regulars making their collection donations by direct debit.

However, as you say, church events, plant sales etc. are strictly cash. Cash machines are not cheap to rent anyway, so it would be impractical for small organisations to use them.

I am the secretary of a local club aimed at the retired. We ask for the subs to be paid by BACS where possible, but some members do not have a cheque book or access to the internet.

Primrose53

Oldnproud

Here in the countryside, people sell a few excess eggs or fruit / veg outside their homes for next to nothing when they have a glut. I am sure that they are making no profit as such. No one would bother doing this with the hassle of card or phone payment. What a shame it would be to lose an old tradition like this if cash disappeared.

@Oldnproud

have you seen this advert for a guy who stops at a roadside stall to buy some potatoes?

youtu.be/YT8RXgFDbA4

Yes, it always makes me smile 😁

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I always carry cash just habit.

A few years back two men in masks kicked in my door and demanded cash. I actually laughed at them and told them I rarely use cash or have it in the house because I buy everything online. I also pointed out that mine was the only house in the street without a car, that I did not wear jewellery or use a smart phone. Perhaps they should have gone to specsavers before they chose a house to rob. They left empty handed and probably feeling pretty foolish.

I haven't read all the posts so sorry if I'm duplicating a point already made.

I use my credit card most of the time but I don't do internet banking. Yesterday evening I was with DD2 when we dropped off GD1 at the railway station. The car park (not the main car park, a small one round the back) was cashless. No problem for DD2 but if I were still driving (not had a car for some years) I suppose I'd be forced into internet banking.

Callistemon21

^When there is an event in our church it is cash only.^

Will the collection plate be changed to a card machine?

It is in use in some church’s but there is still a choice in most, if not in all.
We don’t have the option to donate in our church by any other method than cash but we do have a pile of flyers that have our details on so that anyone can pay by BACS if they want to. Any donation, however it is made, is very welcome.
As for the regular worshippers- they don’t seem to have a problem finding a bit of cash.

I’m sure I posted on here earlier but I can’t find it.

Just today I used cash to buy a postage stamp, to give my niece’s kids a few quid each, to pay for a book in a charity shop, to buy a few potatoes, to buy a coffee.

I do use my card for large purchases and the weekly shop but there are all the little bits I like to use cash for.

I don't know whether I am too late to sign the petition, but I have don so anyway. I too, am concerned about a cashless society. I like the freedom of giving to the homeless etc. and I don't like my spending being watched and monitored. It could all too easily lead to dictatorship.

Come to Germany. Many people are still sceptical about plastic money.

It won't let me sign anything! I can't click onto the name/address etc. so I copied and pasted the link to Google and it still won't let my type anything!

Spuddy

It won't let me sign anything! I can't click onto the name/address etc. so I copied and pasted the link to Google and it still won't let my type anything!

Possibly expired, OP was July last year.

Just off topic slightly, but have you tried to take cash out! My dad wanted to take some out to distribute amongst family.

He is of old school, yes we and are aware that the bank has to ask certain questions fill in a scam form etc.

But they made my dad feel anxious and upset about drawing some of his! cash out.

The person at Halifax was almost insistent we gave her everyone's bank details and she would transfer the money that way. After putting my foot down and saying in a firm tone" it is my dad's money, my dad has worked/saved for it and he wants the cash in his hand so he can hand it to whoever" Had she gone on much longer I would have asked to speak to another person (she was the manager by the way)

On going back another day we dealt with a different lady who was lovely and because of the issue with the Manager we closed my dads account.

I think it is a good thing that there are stringent checks on cash withdrawal, they didn’t know if you were influencing him to withdraw cash and with no paper trail it could have all been for you. There is no real reason why the monies could not be paid into the families bank accounts as far as the bank were concerned.

Yes I can Understand that not all families are honest and that some may well be influenced and that stringent checks are in place, but my dad being old school just wanted to have the cash in his hand to say " there you are that's for you " it wasn't a vast amount. My dad was happy enough that he could give his great grandson money towards his driving lessons. (the driving instructor does not do card so has to be cash).