I don’t see the issue with this. I prefer to use tap and go myself. Maybe have one till for cash when it’s busy to keep the line floor people using card.
I wonder if they’ll be forced to give change too.
I had an issue with my bank card. It took 3 weeks for Bank of Ireland to sort it, it’s cost me an absolute fortune in unpaid direct debit charges. Cards are convenient, cash is king. Any one who thinks otherwise, hasn’t been in a situation where they couldn’t access their own money or pay bills.
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Absolutely.
Maybe get Chinese restaurants to accept cards next
Having been on the recieving end of a lot of BOI fuck ups with my card, I’m very in favour of this and I’m very wary of any move away from cash. Online banking and Revolut are great, but having that stuff as the *only* option leaves the consumer completely at the mercy of bank bollockology – including fees for just about everything – and makes life very hard for people on low incomes especially.
Edit –
I also think it’s important that, bad and all as they are, banks have to “compete” with cash with their online services. Given how terrible their customer service facilities all are now, can you *imagine* how bad they’ll get if we’ve no other option at all? Right now they’re still trying to convince us how great online banking is, what happens when we’re a totally captive audience?
It’s legal tender and should absolutely be accepted by all shops/cafes.
But I thought the government wanted to enslave us all with a digital currency??
/s
This is a good thing imo. Having the choice between cash and card is better than just having one.
I live in Donegal, wife and myself went to Dublin for a weekend for a concert and shopping/sightseeing, used my card all the time… Grand and handy….
Useless effing bank locks my card and leaves us high and dry for most of a day and evening. I do not on-line bank. Thanks aib, here have a bonus. Gobshites!
I’m all for legal tender being forced to be accepted in shops & cafes.
what happens if the payment systems go down (like it did in the Aviva for the US football recently)? Shops just cant sell me what I want then. Stupid carry on.
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Any electronic system can and will fail sporadically. Hard currency is the way to go. E-money is fine when it works and for those who want to use it
How this wasn’t already a law I don’t know. I was under the impression for years that cash was the only currency a business was legally obliged to accept as a form of payment. They didn’t HAVE TO accept credit cards or cheques, those were optional but cash, being legal tender, was legally required to be accepted, but it seems I was wrong. You learn something new every day.
I think banks shouldn’t be able to charge for use of a card. I don’t like the idea of private companies getting a cut of every transaction made.
Hope there’s some common sense included in this, I’ve been in a situation before where we ran out of change and couldn’t accept cash
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Legal tender. The law needs to be respected is all.
> Euro banknotes and coins are legal tender in the euro area, and cash is the only form of public money to which everyone can have direct access.
In this thread; a huge amount of people who need to learn what legal tender is and is not.
If you’re looking for an argument of why we shouldn’t do this — tax evasion is rife in lots of little shops and retail outlets — we all know the Texas Tom’s of Ireland and I’ve seen such shops be hesitant to take on cashless systems first hand because they didn’t want to pay basic tax. Card payments generally make tax evasion much much more difficult.
Also during pandemics cash is a less preferred option than contactless. I’d pursue the Scandinavian model before the German one. Scandinavians love card payments and Germans love cash.
In this thread; a huge amount of people who need to learn what legal tender is and is not.
Force banks to provide branches too, why do they think businesses aren’t accepting cash?
While it is convenient, it opens a whole lot of possibilities to evade taxes.
I love how people here are giving all sorts of creative answers, when we all know cash is for illegal shit and tax evasion.
Strangely enough I have never experienced this problem where a business wouldn’t take cash
in fact,
I have the opposite problem where they only take cash
and not card
eg chinese restaurants, barber’s, chippers ,
In America, these policies are specifically put in place to prevent homeless people from using their services.
My wife runs a small business and does mainly card/contactless/Revolut payments. Doesn’t do any cash payments.
For small business there’s a lot of work in handling cash payments between keeping a float, safe, drop boxes etc. Banks (if your town has one) are only open during the day (not at lunch) so she has to close the business to go.
Also there’s an inherent added risk of robbery if criminals expect you to have cash on premises.
Should have been law already. Fuck businesses that don’t accept cash.
Lads! Worked at the Picnic this year. All cards, no cash was wgat the vendors, were told.
Card machines go down all over the Gaff. People going bonkers. They didn’t even pay the vendors the correct amoubts because of a ‘glitch’
Cash is King.
Card only is a load a me Bollox.
I own a cafe. Cash is king for obvious reasons. Why would they not?
1000% with this. I was in Estonia recently and it was practically a cashless society. I hated it and was even looked down upon when I asked to pay in cash in some bars and restaurants
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I don’t see the issue with this. I prefer to use tap and go myself. Maybe have one till for cash when it’s busy to keep the line floor people using card.
I wonder if they’ll be forced to give change too.
I had an issue with my bank card. It took 3 weeks for Bank of Ireland to sort it, it’s cost me an absolute fortune in unpaid direct debit charges. Cards are convenient, cash is king. Any one who thinks otherwise, hasn’t been in a situation where they couldn’t access their own money or pay bills.
[deleted]
Absolutely.
Maybe get Chinese restaurants to accept cards next
Having been on the recieving end of a lot of BOI fuck ups with my card, I’m very in favour of this and I’m very wary of any move away from cash. Online banking and Revolut are great, but having that stuff as the *only* option leaves the consumer completely at the mercy of bank bollockology – including fees for just about everything – and makes life very hard for people on low incomes especially.
Edit –
I also think it’s important that, bad and all as they are, banks have to “compete” with cash with their online services. Given how terrible their customer service facilities all are now, can you *imagine* how bad they’ll get if we’ve no other option at all? Right now they’re still trying to convince us how great online banking is, what happens when we’re a totally captive audience?
It’s legal tender and should absolutely be accepted by all shops/cafes.
But I thought the government wanted to enslave us all with a digital currency??
/s
This is a good thing imo. Having the choice between cash and card is better than just having one.
I live in Donegal, wife and myself went to Dublin for a weekend for a concert and shopping/sightseeing, used my card all the time… Grand and handy….
Useless effing bank locks my card and leaves us high and dry for most of a day and evening. I do not on-line bank. Thanks aib, here have a bonus. Gobshites!
I’m all for legal tender being forced to be accepted in shops & cafes.
what happens if the payment systems go down (like it did in the Aviva for the US football recently)? Shops just cant sell me what I want then. Stupid carry on.
​
Any electronic system can and will fail sporadically. Hard currency is the way to go. E-money is fine when it works and for those who want to use it
How this wasn’t already a law I don’t know. I was under the impression for years that cash was the only currency a business was legally obliged to accept as a form of payment. They didn’t HAVE TO accept credit cards or cheques, those were optional but cash, being legal tender, was legally required to be accepted, but it seems I was wrong. You learn something new every day.
I think banks shouldn’t be able to charge for use of a card. I don’t like the idea of private companies getting a cut of every transaction made.
Hope there’s some common sense included in this, I’ve been in a situation before where we ran out of change and couldn’t accept cash
good
Legal tender. The law needs to be respected is all.
> Euro banknotes and coins are legal tender in the euro area, and cash is the only form of public money to which everyone can have direct access.
https://www.centralbank.ie/consumer-hub/notes-and-coins/eurosystem-cash-strategy#:~:text=Euro%20banknotes%20and%20coins%20are,everyone%20can%20have%20direct%20access.
In this thread; a huge amount of people who need to learn what legal tender is and is not.
If you’re looking for an argument of why we shouldn’t do this — tax evasion is rife in lots of little shops and retail outlets — we all know the Texas Tom’s of Ireland and I’ve seen such shops be hesitant to take on cashless systems first hand because they didn’t want to pay basic tax. Card payments generally make tax evasion much much more difficult.
Also during pandemics cash is a less preferred option than contactless. I’d pursue the Scandinavian model before the German one. Scandinavians love card payments and Germans love cash.
In this thread; a huge amount of people who need to learn what legal tender is and is not.
Force banks to provide branches too, why do they think businesses aren’t accepting cash?
While it is convenient, it opens a whole lot of possibilities to evade taxes.
I love how people here are giving all sorts of creative answers, when we all know cash is for illegal shit and tax evasion.
Strangely enough I have never experienced this problem where a business wouldn’t take cash
in fact,
I have the opposite problem where they only take cash
and not card
eg chinese restaurants, barber’s, chippers ,
In America, these policies are specifically put in place to prevent homeless people from using their services.
Are they not forced to already.
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My wife runs a small business and does mainly card/contactless/Revolut payments. Doesn’t do any cash payments.
For small business there’s a lot of work in handling cash payments between keeping a float, safe, drop boxes etc. Banks (if your town has one) are only open during the day (not at lunch) so she has to close the business to go.
Also there’s an inherent added risk of robbery if criminals expect you to have cash on premises.
Should have been law already. Fuck businesses that don’t accept cash.
Lads! Worked at the Picnic this year. All cards, no cash was wgat the vendors, were told.
Card machines go down all over the Gaff. People going bonkers. They didn’t even pay the vendors the correct amoubts because of a ‘glitch’
Cash is King.
Card only is a load a me Bollox.
I own a cafe. Cash is king for obvious reasons. Why would they not?
1000% with this. I was in Estonia recently and it was practically a cashless society. I hated it and was even looked down upon when I asked to pay in cash in some bars and restaurants