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The Dangers of a Cashless Society.
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Carter said:Covered End said: minutesCarter said:I've had a bank fuck up and "misplace" a few thousand pounds of my money. This was only recently an its made me feel like keeping my money in a box buried underground or in a safe in my house. Their attitude to fixing their balls up was atrocious too.
Their approach to retail banking is also ensuring that will soon vanish. They are only concerned with selling over-priced financial products as opposed to helping people manage their money. My mate helps his dad with this stuff and his dad had something like £50k in a current account and all the arseholes did when he took his dad down there to move most of it into a savings account was be obstructive and attempt to sell mortgages with shite rates, credit cards this guy plainly didn’t need before telling my pal they would only issue the money in installments over 2 weeks, asking him to take it out in £5k lumps, walk it along to the other bank his dad had opened a savings account in and deposit the cash in there. Absolutely no reason they couldn't have transferred it via BACS immediately.
No right minded person would suggest that.
It sounds to me more like your mate asked to withdraw the £50K in cash and they didn't have it and would have had to order the cash on the next run, so suggested take out £5K if and when they had it.
Which bank was it?1 -
Algarveaddick said:Radostanradical said:Algarveaddick said:Radostanradical said:Algarveaddick said:See the thread on power outages in Portugal and Spain to learn why cashless is a bad idea... (I was in the UK luckily).
After all how did those without cash get by if there was no power to ATM machines.
i shouldn't engage but I'm working late and this will be a nice distraction, so let me guide you on your critical thinking journey.
Step 1) Has this kind of an outage to this extent happened before in Portugal/Spain (or anywhere in the developed world for that matter) in lets say 70 years at this scale and length of time ? No it hasn't.
Step 2) We look at the ARO (Annualized Rate of Occurrence) so right now, as mentioned above, it hasn't previously happened before so its 1 in 70 years, so that means the chance of this happening each year is 0.14 and thats being very liberal as I selected 70 years it could be much longer.
Step 3) lets look at the single loss expectancy (SLE) which in economic terms is around 2.4 billion (Reuters). The Spanish economy alone is worth 1.9 Trillion.
Now ask yourself is it worth forcing small, medium and large private businesses to adopt an archaic system that will cost them money on the off chance something that has happened once in seventy years and may cost the economy 2.4 billion (roughly 0.2% of the economy) might but probably wont happen ?
Also again I ask you, as you brought up the blackout to justify your belief how do you propose people would get hold of cash if their is a power outage ? even if you go in to a bank you need to validate your card ? Only a small number of people will have cash readily available.
So in summary your task is the following -
Point out the contradiction good chap.
If possible follow my thought process.
Make a sensible decision.
Regarding your stats, as the push towards a cashless society really began to build momentum post-covid, wouldn't five years be a more realistic time scale than seventy? Or even twenty as I would say that is roughly when we began to rely on computers (and therefore electricity) to do everything. I would suggest that in the modern world, with the increase in cyber attacks and unexpected weather patterns that outages would become more likely than a generation ago? Also, an outage does not have to be on the scale of this one to be a problem to individuals, a forest fire or a power worker's strike could have the same effect over a smaller area.
You also mention "forcing small, medium and large private businesses to adopt an archaic system" - a system that everyone was reasonably happy with until five years ago "archaic"? Really? A system that I know many small, medium and large private business's are still using, and are quite happy with.
Cash and card are not mutually exclusive and at no point was I suggesting they were.
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ME14addick said:Carter said:Covered End said: minutesCarter said:I've had a bank fuck up and "misplace" a few thousand pounds of my money. This was only recently an its made me feel like keeping my money in a box buried underground or in a safe in my house. Their attitude to fixing their balls up was atrocious too.
Their approach to retail banking is also ensuring that will soon vanish. They are only concerned with selling over-priced financial products as opposed to helping people manage their money. My mate helps his dad with this stuff and his dad had something like £50k in a current account and all the arseholes did when he took his dad down there to move most of it into a savings account was be obstructive and attempt to sell mortgages with shite rates, credit cards this guy plainly didn’t need before telling my pal they would only issue the money in installments over 2 weeks, asking him to take it out in £5k lumps, walk it along to the other bank his dad had opened a savings account in and deposit the cash in there. Absolutely no reason they couldn't have transferred it via BACS immediately.
No right minded person would suggest that.
It sounds to me more like your mate asked to withdraw the £50K in cash and they didn't have it and would have had to order the cash on the next run, so suggested take out £5K if and when they had it.
Which bank was it?
Far more on deposits than withdrawals. The receiving bank will need to confirm source of funds from an AML perspective.
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Charltonstu said:Anybody use Wise ?3
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bobmunro said:ME14addick said:Carter said:Covered End said: minutesCarter said:I've had a bank fuck up and "misplace" a few thousand pounds of my money. This was only recently an its made me feel like keeping my money in a box buried underground or in a safe in my house. Their attitude to fixing their balls up was atrocious too.
Their approach to retail banking is also ensuring that will soon vanish. They are only concerned with selling over-priced financial products as opposed to helping people manage their money. My mate helps his dad with this stuff and his dad had something like £50k in a current account and all the arseholes did when he took his dad down there to move most of it into a savings account was be obstructive and attempt to sell mortgages with shite rates, credit cards this guy plainly didn’t need before telling my pal they would only issue the money in installments over 2 weeks, asking him to take it out in £5k lumps, walk it along to the other bank his dad had opened a savings account in and deposit the cash in there. Absolutely no reason they couldn't have transferred it via BACS immediately.
No right minded person would suggest that.
It sounds to me more like your mate asked to withdraw the £50K in cash and they didn't have it and would have had to order the cash on the next run, so suggested take out £5K if and when they had it.
Which bank was it?
Far more on deposits than withdrawals. The receiving bank will need to confirm source of funds from an AML perspective.
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valleynick66 said:bobmunro said:ME14addick said:Carter said:Covered End said: minutesCarter said:I've had a bank fuck up and "misplace" a few thousand pounds of my money. This was only recently an its made me feel like keeping my money in a box buried underground or in a safe in my house. Their attitude to fixing their balls up was atrocious too.
Their approach to retail banking is also ensuring that will soon vanish. They are only concerned with selling over-priced financial products as opposed to helping people manage their money. My mate helps his dad with this stuff and his dad had something like £50k in a current account and all the arseholes did when he took his dad down there to move most of it into a savings account was be obstructive and attempt to sell mortgages with shite rates, credit cards this guy plainly didn’t need before telling my pal they would only issue the money in installments over 2 weeks, asking him to take it out in £5k lumps, walk it along to the other bank his dad had opened a savings account in and deposit the cash in there. Absolutely no reason they couldn't have transferred it via BACS immediately.
No right minded person would suggest that.
It sounds to me more like your mate asked to withdraw the £50K in cash and they didn't have it and would have had to order the cash on the next run, so suggested take out £5K if and when they had it.
Which bank was it?
Far more on deposits than withdrawals. The receiving bank will need to confirm source of funds from an AML perspective.Absolutely - especially when not going in to an account in the same name. "Where did you get the account details?" "What does the transfer relate to?" "Did anyone you don't know ask you to transfer the funds?" and so on.If I do a lumpy transfer online (especially to a new beneficiary) it will invariably be held as pending and I'll expect a call from my bank.0 -
I have been my own one man cashless society for years, never been so skint.
Once us oldies all die out the question is moot I suppose. I won't be worried neither will you all and those left behind won't know the difference and just get on with it.2 -
valleynick66 said:Algarveaddick said:Radostanradical said:Algarveaddick said:Radostanradical said:Algarveaddick said:See the thread on power outages in Portugal and Spain to learn why cashless is a bad idea... (I was in the UK luckily).
After all how did those without cash get by if there was no power to ATM machines.
i shouldn't engage but I'm working late and this will be a nice distraction, so let me guide you on your critical thinking journey.
Step 1) Has this kind of an outage to this extent happened before in Portugal/Spain (or anywhere in the developed world for that matter) in lets say 70 years at this scale and length of time ? No it hasn't.
Step 2) We look at the ARO (Annualized Rate of Occurrence) so right now, as mentioned above, it hasn't previously happened before so its 1 in 70 years, so that means the chance of this happening each year is 0.14 and thats being very liberal as I selected 70 years it could be much longer.
Step 3) lets look at the single loss expectancy (SLE) which in economic terms is around 2.4 billion (Reuters). The Spanish economy alone is worth 1.9 Trillion.
Now ask yourself is it worth forcing small, medium and large private businesses to adopt an archaic system that will cost them money on the off chance something that has happened once in seventy years and may cost the economy 2.4 billion (roughly 0.2% of the economy) might but probably wont happen ?
Also again I ask you, as you brought up the blackout to justify your belief how do you propose people would get hold of cash if their is a power outage ? even if you go in to a bank you need to validate your card ? Only a small number of people will have cash readily available.
So in summary your task is the following -
Point out the contradiction good chap.
If possible follow my thought process.
Make a sensible decision.
Regarding your stats, as the push towards a cashless society really began to build momentum post-covid, wouldn't five years be a more realistic time scale than seventy? Or even twenty as I would say that is roughly when we began to rely on computers (and therefore electricity) to do everything. I would suggest that in the modern world, with the increase in cyber attacks and unexpected weather patterns that outages would become more likely than a generation ago? Also, an outage does not have to be on the scale of this one to be a problem to individuals, a forest fire or a power worker's strike could have the same effect over a smaller area.
You also mention "forcing small, medium and large private businesses to adopt an archaic system" - a system that everyone was reasonably happy with until five years ago "archaic"? Really? A system that I know many small, medium and large private business's are still using, and are quite happy with.
Cash and card are not mutually exclusive and at no point was I suggesting they were.
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Algarveaddick said:valleynick66 said:Algarveaddick said:Radostanradical said:Algarveaddick said:Radostanradical said:Algarveaddick said:See the thread on power outages in Portugal and Spain to learn why cashless is a bad idea... (I was in the UK luckily).
After all how did those without cash get by if there was no power to ATM machines.
i shouldn't engage but I'm working late and this will be a nice distraction, so let me guide you on your critical thinking journey.
Step 1) Has this kind of an outage to this extent happened before in Portugal/Spain (or anywhere in the developed world for that matter) in lets say 70 years at this scale and length of time ? No it hasn't.
Step 2) We look at the ARO (Annualized Rate of Occurrence) so right now, as mentioned above, it hasn't previously happened before so its 1 in 70 years, so that means the chance of this happening each year is 0.14 and thats being very liberal as I selected 70 years it could be much longer.
Step 3) lets look at the single loss expectancy (SLE) which in economic terms is around 2.4 billion (Reuters). The Spanish economy alone is worth 1.9 Trillion.
Now ask yourself is it worth forcing small, medium and large private businesses to adopt an archaic system that will cost them money on the off chance something that has happened once in seventy years and may cost the economy 2.4 billion (roughly 0.2% of the economy) might but probably wont happen ?
Also again I ask you, as you brought up the blackout to justify your belief how do you propose people would get hold of cash if their is a power outage ? even if you go in to a bank you need to validate your card ? Only a small number of people will have cash readily available.
So in summary your task is the following -
Point out the contradiction good chap.
If possible follow my thought process.
Make a sensible decision.
Regarding your stats, as the push towards a cashless society really began to build momentum post-covid, wouldn't five years be a more realistic time scale than seventy? Or even twenty as I would say that is roughly when we began to rely on computers (and therefore electricity) to do everything. I would suggest that in the modern world, with the increase in cyber attacks and unexpected weather patterns that outages would become more likely than a generation ago? Also, an outage does not have to be on the scale of this one to be a problem to individuals, a forest fire or a power worker's strike could have the same effect over a smaller area.
You also mention "forcing small, medium and large private businesses to adopt an archaic system" - a system that everyone was reasonably happy with until five years ago "archaic"? Really? A system that I know many small, medium and large private business's are still using, and are quite happy with.
Cash and card are not mutually exclusive and at no point was I suggesting they were.
I rarely carry cash but have some cash in the house for the very reasons you state.5 -
Algarveaddick said:valleynick66 said:Algarveaddick said:Radostanradical said:Algarveaddick said:Radostanradical said:Algarveaddick said:See the thread on power outages in Portugal and Spain to learn why cashless is a bad idea... (I was in the UK luckily).
After all how did those without cash get by if there was no power to ATM machines.
i shouldn't engage but I'm working late and this will be a nice distraction, so let me guide you on your critical thinking journey.
Step 1) Has this kind of an outage to this extent happened before in Portugal/Spain (or anywhere in the developed world for that matter) in lets say 70 years at this scale and length of time ? No it hasn't.
Step 2) We look at the ARO (Annualized Rate of Occurrence) so right now, as mentioned above, it hasn't previously happened before so its 1 in 70 years, so that means the chance of this happening each year is 0.14 and thats being very liberal as I selected 70 years it could be much longer.
Step 3) lets look at the single loss expectancy (SLE) which in economic terms is around 2.4 billion (Reuters). The Spanish economy alone is worth 1.9 Trillion.
Now ask yourself is it worth forcing small, medium and large private businesses to adopt an archaic system that will cost them money on the off chance something that has happened once in seventy years and may cost the economy 2.4 billion (roughly 0.2% of the economy) might but probably wont happen ?
Also again I ask you, as you brought up the blackout to justify your belief how do you propose people would get hold of cash if their is a power outage ? even if you go in to a bank you need to validate your card ? Only a small number of people will have cash readily available.
So in summary your task is the following -
Point out the contradiction good chap.
If possible follow my thought process.
Make a sensible decision.
Regarding your stats, as the push towards a cashless society really began to build momentum post-covid, wouldn't five years be a more realistic time scale than seventy? Or even twenty as I would say that is roughly when we began to rely on computers (and therefore electricity) to do everything. I would suggest that in the modern world, with the increase in cyber attacks and unexpected weather patterns that outages would become more likely than a generation ago? Also, an outage does not have to be on the scale of this one to be a problem to individuals, a forest fire or a power worker's strike could have the same effect over a smaller area.
You also mention "forcing small, medium and large private businesses to adopt an archaic system" - a system that everyone was reasonably happy with until five years ago "archaic"? Really? A system that I know many small, medium and large private business's are still using, and are quite happy with.
Cash and card are not mutually exclusive and at no point was I suggesting they were.
The world has moved on substantially now and cash isn’t the ‘need’ it was.If you don’t have enough food for 24 hours you are better off considering your contingency for that in my view.2 - Sponsored links:
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valleynick66 said:Algarveaddick said:valleynick66 said:Algarveaddick said:Radostanradical said:Algarveaddick said:Radostanradical said:Algarveaddick said:See the thread on power outages in Portugal and Spain to learn why cashless is a bad idea... (I was in the UK luckily).
After all how did those without cash get by if there was no power to ATM machines.
i shouldn't engage but I'm working late and this will be a nice distraction, so let me guide you on your critical thinking journey.
Step 1) Has this kind of an outage to this extent happened before in Portugal/Spain (or anywhere in the developed world for that matter) in lets say 70 years at this scale and length of time ? No it hasn't.
Step 2) We look at the ARO (Annualized Rate of Occurrence) so right now, as mentioned above, it hasn't previously happened before so its 1 in 70 years, so that means the chance of this happening each year is 0.14 and thats being very liberal as I selected 70 years it could be much longer.
Step 3) lets look at the single loss expectancy (SLE) which in economic terms is around 2.4 billion (Reuters). The Spanish economy alone is worth 1.9 Trillion.
Now ask yourself is it worth forcing small, medium and large private businesses to adopt an archaic system that will cost them money on the off chance something that has happened once in seventy years and may cost the economy 2.4 billion (roughly 0.2% of the economy) might but probably wont happen ?
Also again I ask you, as you brought up the blackout to justify your belief how do you propose people would get hold of cash if their is a power outage ? even if you go in to a bank you need to validate your card ? Only a small number of people will have cash readily available.
So in summary your task is the following -
Point out the contradiction good chap.
If possible follow my thought process.
Make a sensible decision.
Regarding your stats, as the push towards a cashless society really began to build momentum post-covid, wouldn't five years be a more realistic time scale than seventy? Or even twenty as I would say that is roughly when we began to rely on computers (and therefore electricity) to do everything. I would suggest that in the modern world, with the increase in cyber attacks and unexpected weather patterns that outages would become more likely than a generation ago? Also, an outage does not have to be on the scale of this one to be a problem to individuals, a forest fire or a power worker's strike could have the same effect over a smaller area.
You also mention "forcing small, medium and large private businesses to adopt an archaic system" - a system that everyone was reasonably happy with until five years ago "archaic"? Really? A system that I know many small, medium and large private business's are still using, and are quite happy with.
Cash and card are not mutually exclusive and at no point was I suggesting they were.
The world has moved on substantially now and cash isn’t the ‘need’ it was.If you don’t have enough food for 24 hours you are better off considering your contingency for that in my view.
You are right on your last point though, maybe we should stock up on tins of tuna so we have something to eat when the power goes off.2 -
I don't understand why you wouldn't have access to some cash either on you or somewhere at home. Not thousands just a ton or so.5
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ME14addick said:Carter said:Covered End said: minutesCarter said:I've had a bank fuck up and "misplace" a few thousand pounds of my money. This was only recently an its made me feel like keeping my money in a box buried underground or in a safe in my house. Their attitude to fixing their balls up was atrocious too.
Their approach to retail banking is also ensuring that will soon vanish. They are only concerned with selling over-priced financial products as opposed to helping people manage their money. My mate helps his dad with this stuff and his dad had something like £50k in a current account and all the arseholes did when he took his dad down there to move most of it into a savings account was be obstructive and attempt to sell mortgages with shite rates, credit cards this guy plainly didn’t need before telling my pal they would only issue the money in installments over 2 weeks, asking him to take it out in £5k lumps, walk it along to the other bank his dad had opened a savings account in and deposit the cash in there. Absolutely no reason they couldn't have transferred it via BACS immediately.
No right minded person would suggest that.
It sounds to me more like your mate asked to withdraw the £50K in cash and they didn't have it and would have had to order the cash on the next run, so suggested take out £5K if and when they had it.
Which bank was it?1 -
valleynick66 said:Algarveaddick said:valleynick66 said:Algarveaddick said:Radostanradical said:Algarveaddick said:Radostanradical said:Algarveaddick said:See the thread on power outages in Portugal and Spain to learn why cashless is a bad idea... (I was in the UK luckily).
After all how did those without cash get by if there was no power to ATM machines.
i shouldn't engage but I'm working late and this will be a nice distraction, so let me guide you on your critical thinking journey.
Step 1) Has this kind of an outage to this extent happened before in Portugal/Spain (or anywhere in the developed world for that matter) in lets say 70 years at this scale and length of time ? No it hasn't.
Step 2) We look at the ARO (Annualized Rate of Occurrence) so right now, as mentioned above, it hasn't previously happened before so its 1 in 70 years, so that means the chance of this happening each year is 0.14 and thats being very liberal as I selected 70 years it could be much longer.
Step 3) lets look at the single loss expectancy (SLE) which in economic terms is around 2.4 billion (Reuters). The Spanish economy alone is worth 1.9 Trillion.
Now ask yourself is it worth forcing small, medium and large private businesses to adopt an archaic system that will cost them money on the off chance something that has happened once in seventy years and may cost the economy 2.4 billion (roughly 0.2% of the economy) might but probably wont happen ?
Also again I ask you, as you brought up the blackout to justify your belief how do you propose people would get hold of cash if their is a power outage ? even if you go in to a bank you need to validate your card ? Only a small number of people will have cash readily available.
So in summary your task is the following -
Point out the contradiction good chap.
If possible follow my thought process.
Make a sensible decision.
Regarding your stats, as the push towards a cashless society really began to build momentum post-covid, wouldn't five years be a more realistic time scale than seventy? Or even twenty as I would say that is roughly when we began to rely on computers (and therefore electricity) to do everything. I would suggest that in the modern world, with the increase in cyber attacks and unexpected weather patterns that outages would become more likely than a generation ago? Also, an outage does not have to be on the scale of this one to be a problem to individuals, a forest fire or a power worker's strike could have the same effect over a smaller area.
You also mention "forcing small, medium and large private businesses to adopt an archaic system" - a system that everyone was reasonably happy with until five years ago "archaic"? Really? A system that I know many small, medium and large private business's are still using, and are quite happy with.
Cash and card are not mutually exclusive and at no point was I suggesting they were.
The world has moved on substantially now and cash isn’t the ‘need’ it was.If you don’t have enough food for 24 hours you are better off considering your contingency for that in my view.Fair enough, I’ll have me couple of hundred quid handy and you have your tin of beans and your long life bread Nick.0 -
This is a bit like two bald men arguing over a comb. If the general population misses more than three straight meals because the cashpoints are down or there's no food left in the shops, people will be tearing each other's fucking heads off in the street like in 28 Days Later - whether you've got a tenner in your pocket or a few tins of beans in the cupboard at home will be the least of your worries5
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I’m sure I’ve mentioned this before, but the biggest thing I hate about going anywhere outside of China is having to use money.Here I can do absolutely everything through one app, buy food, taxis, pay street vendors, pay all my bills and rent.
Money is fiddly, dirty a scammers wet dream and I’d happily never touch it again. Long live 微信6 -
I keep some money at home as a backstop but not that much. Enough to cover a couple of days probably. Certainly enough food in the house to stop me starving. It’s mainly a precaution against my bank being down for a day. I have accounts with another bank also so probably not that much of a concern. Should there be major outages like we recently seen in Spain and Portugal I suspect we’d all be better off just staying at home anyway.2
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ME14addick said:Carter said:Covered End said: minutesCarter said:I've had a bank fuck up and "misplace" a few thousand pounds of my money. This was only recently an its made me feel like keeping my money in a box buried underground or in a safe in my house. Their attitude to fixing their balls up was atrocious too.
Their approach to retail banking is also ensuring that will soon vanish. They are only concerned with selling over-priced financial products as opposed to helping people manage their money. My mate helps his dad with this stuff and his dad had something like £50k in a current account and all the arseholes did when he took his dad down there to move most of it into a savings account was be obstructive and attempt to sell mortgages with shite rates, credit cards this guy plainly didn’t need before telling my pal they would only issue the money in installments over 2 weeks, asking him to take it out in £5k lumps, walk it along to the other bank his dad had opened a savings account in and deposit the cash in there. Absolutely no reason they couldn't have transferred it via BACS immediately.
No right minded person would suggest that.
It sounds to me more like your mate asked to withdraw the £50K in cash and they didn't have it and would have had to order the cash on the next run, so suggested take out £5K if and when they had it.
Which bank was it?
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So much easier to keep track with money electrically. Each apps has all the transactions listed out.1
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Friend Or Defoe said:So much easier to keep track with money electrically. Each apps has all the transactions listed out.10
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Algarveaddick said:Friend Or Defoe said:So much easier to keep track with money electrically. Each apps has all the transactions listed out.2
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Carter said:I don't understand why you wouldn't have access to some cash either on you or somewhere at home. Not thousands just a ton or so.0
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SomervilleAddick said:ME14addick said:Carter said:Covered End said: minutesCarter said:I've had a bank fuck up and "misplace" a few thousand pounds of my money. This was only recently an its made me feel like keeping my money in a box buried underground or in a safe in my house. Their attitude to fixing their balls up was atrocious too.
Their approach to retail banking is also ensuring that will soon vanish. They are only concerned with selling over-priced financial products as opposed to helping people manage their money. My mate helps his dad with this stuff and his dad had something like £50k in a current account and all the arseholes did when he took his dad down there to move most of it into a savings account was be obstructive and attempt to sell mortgages with shite rates, credit cards this guy plainly didn’t need before telling my pal they would only issue the money in installments over 2 weeks, asking him to take it out in £5k lumps, walk it along to the other bank his dad had opened a savings account in and deposit the cash in there. Absolutely no reason they couldn't have transferred it via BACS immediately.
No right minded person would suggest that.
It sounds to me more like your mate asked to withdraw the £50K in cash and they didn't have it and would have had to order the cash on the next run, so suggested take out £5K if and when they had it.
Which bank was it?
Yeah fair enough it could be. His dad isn't incapacitated, he is just not very good with life admin because like a lot of blokes his age he has never had to be, rightly or wrongly, hence my pal helping his dad manage that and TSB seemingly going out of their way to fuck it up. Its not for me to be sharing all of their individual circumstance but this isn't a case of my pal leading the conversation.
The bone of contention is, if they suspected a scam why would they be happy to let them empty the account £5k or whatever amount of his money they would allow him to take, over a period of time, in cash.0 -
bobmunro said:Algarveaddick said:valleynick66 said:Algarveaddick said:Radostanradical said:Algarveaddick said:Radostanradical said:Algarveaddick said:See the thread on power outages in Portugal and Spain to learn why cashless is a bad idea... (I was in the UK luckily).
After all how did those without cash get by if there was no power to ATM machines.
i shouldn't engage but I'm working late and this will be a nice distraction, so let me guide you on your critical thinking journey.
Step 1) Has this kind of an outage to this extent happened before in Portugal/Spain (or anywhere in the developed world for that matter) in lets say 70 years at this scale and length of time ? No it hasn't.
Step 2) We look at the ARO (Annualized Rate of Occurrence) so right now, as mentioned above, it hasn't previously happened before so its 1 in 70 years, so that means the chance of this happening each year is 0.14 and thats being very liberal as I selected 70 years it could be much longer.
Step 3) lets look at the single loss expectancy (SLE) which in economic terms is around 2.4 billion (Reuters). The Spanish economy alone is worth 1.9 Trillion.
Now ask yourself is it worth forcing small, medium and large private businesses to adopt an archaic system that will cost them money on the off chance something that has happened once in seventy years and may cost the economy 2.4 billion (roughly 0.2% of the economy) might but probably wont happen ?
Also again I ask you, as you brought up the blackout to justify your belief how do you propose people would get hold of cash if their is a power outage ? even if you go in to a bank you need to validate your card ? Only a small number of people will have cash readily available.
So in summary your task is the following -
Point out the contradiction good chap.
If possible follow my thought process.
Make a sensible decision.
Regarding your stats, as the push towards a cashless society really began to build momentum post-covid, wouldn't five years be a more realistic time scale than seventy? Or even twenty as I would say that is roughly when we began to rely on computers (and therefore electricity) to do everything. I would suggest that in the modern world, with the increase in cyber attacks and unexpected weather patterns that outages would become more likely than a generation ago? Also, an outage does not have to be on the scale of this one to be a problem to individuals, a forest fire or a power worker's strike could have the same effect over a smaller area.
You also mention "forcing small, medium and large private businesses to adopt an archaic system" - a system that everyone was reasonably happy with until five years ago "archaic"? Really? A system that I know many small, medium and large private business's are still using, and are quite happy with.
Cash and card are not mutually exclusive and at no point was I suggesting they were.
I rarely carry cash but have some cash in the house for the very reasons you state.0 -
valleynick66 said:Carter said:I don't understand why you wouldn't have access to some cash either on you or somewhere at home. Not thousands just a ton or so.2
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Interesting debate. I definitely prefer to use cards, and here the bigger issue is still places that refuse to take cards. But I’m definitely going to keep a fair bit more cash at home, once I’ve worked out a place to conceal it without having to install a safe. i’ve also started building up a stockpile of long-life packaged food. The Scandis have a national recommended plan for all citizens to have that kind of emergency kit, despite them also being the most advanced in Europe for cashless retail.0
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Carter said:SomervilleAddick said:ME14addick said:Carter said:Covered End said: minutesCarter said:I've had a bank fuck up and "misplace" a few thousand pounds of my money. This was only recently an its made me feel like keeping my money in a box buried underground or in a safe in my house. Their attitude to fixing their balls up was atrocious too.
Their approach to retail banking is also ensuring that will soon vanish. They are only concerned with selling over-priced financial products as opposed to helping people manage their money. My mate helps his dad with this stuff and his dad had something like £50k in a current account and all the arseholes did when he took his dad down there to move most of it into a savings account was be obstructive and attempt to sell mortgages with shite rates, credit cards this guy plainly didn’t need before telling my pal they would only issue the money in installments over 2 weeks, asking him to take it out in £5k lumps, walk it along to the other bank his dad had opened a savings account in and deposit the cash in there. Absolutely no reason they couldn't have transferred it via BACS immediately.
No right minded person would suggest that.
It sounds to me more like your mate asked to withdraw the £50K in cash and they didn't have it and would have had to order the cash on the next run, so suggested take out £5K if and when they had it.
Which bank was it?
Yeah fair enough it could be. His dad isn't incapacitated, he is just not very good with life admin because like a lot of blokes his age he has never had to be, rightly or wrongly, hence my pal helping his dad manage that and TSB seemingly going out of their way to fuck it up. Its not for me to be sharing all of their individual circumstance but this isn't a case of my pal leading the conversation.
The bone of contention is, if they suspected a scam why would they be happy to let them empty the account £5k or whatever amount of his money they would allow him to take, over a period of time, in cash.
Their cash holdings are kept to a minimum because it is expensive to hold cash.
I very much doubt that they had £50K spare in cash and perhaps did not wish to specifically disclose how much cash the bank held for security reasons and obviously are not going to tell the general public when their next "bullion" delivery is.
In order to make a £50K same day faster payment they would need to see a passport for fraud prevention purposes which I doubt he had on him (understandably).
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PragueAddick said:Interesting debate. I definitely prefer to use cards, and here the bigger issue is still places that refuse to take cards. But I’m definitely going to keep a fair bit more cash at home, once I’ve worked out a place to conceal it without having to install a safe. i’ve also started building up a stockpile of long-life packaged food. The Scandis have a national recommended plan for all citizens to have that kind of emergency kit, despite them also being the most advanced in Europe for cashless retail.0
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Algarveaddick said:Radostanradical said:Algarveaddick said:Radostanradical said:Algarveaddick said:See the thread on power outages in Portugal and Spain to learn why cashless is a bad idea... (I was in the UK luckily).
After all how did those without cash get by if there was no power to ATM machines.
i shouldn't engage but I'm working late and this will be a nice distraction, so let me guide you on your critical thinking journey.
Step 1) Has this kind of an outage to this extent happened before in Portugal/Spain (or anywhere in the developed world for that matter) in lets say 70 years at this scale and length of time ? No it hasn't.
Step 2) We look at the ARO (Annualized Rate of Occurrence) so right now, as mentioned above, it hasn't previously happened before so its 1 in 70 years, so that means the chance of this happening each year is 0.14 and thats being very liberal as I selected 70 years it could be much longer.
Step 3) lets look at the single loss expectancy (SLE) which in economic terms is around 2.4 billion (Reuters). The Spanish economy alone is worth 1.9 Trillion.
Now ask yourself is it worth forcing small, medium and large private businesses to adopt an archaic system that will cost them money on the off chance something that has happened once in seventy years and may cost the economy 2.4 billion (roughly 0.2% of the economy) might but probably wont happen ?
Also again I ask you, as you brought up the blackout to justify your belief how do you propose people would get hold of cash if their is a power outage ? even if you go in to a bank you need to validate your card ? Only a small number of people will have cash readily available.
So in summary your task is the following -
Point out the contradiction good chap.
If possible follow my thought process.
Make a sensible decision.
Regarding your stats, as the push towards a cashless society really began to build momentum post-covid, wouldn't five years be a more realistic time scale than seventy? Or even twenty as I would say that is roughly when we began to rely on computers (and therefore electricity) to do everything. I would suggest that in the modern world, with the increase in cyber attacks and unexpected weather patterns that outages would become more likely than a generation ago? Also, an outage does not have to be on the scale of this one to be a problem to individuals, a forest fire or a power worker's strike could have the same effect over a smaller area.
You also mention "forcing small, medium and large private businesses to adopt an archaic system" - a system that everyone was reasonably happy with until five years ago "archaic"? Really? A system that I know many small, medium and large private business's are still using, and are quite happy with.
Cash and card are not mutually exclusive and at no point was I suggesting they were.
Apologies though I did get a tad aggressive, it was mixture or little sleep, coffee and working late.
In regards to your point a system everyone was happy with ? firstly I'd argue that a growing number of people arent happy with it anymore but without figures that would just be an opinion. However there were plenty of people who didnt see the need for electric lamps and wanted to keep lamplighters, people were happy with milkmen, etc etc. The point is society moves on and even for the conspiracy theorists there will be ways of keeping payments confidential.0