[Albion] Cashless Amex en route...

[Nitram]

1) When I was younger my parents would buy my season ticket as a christmas present for me, I'm sure I'm not the only one who has been in that position - people at an age where their parents will buy their season ticket, but aren't going to give them money each game to buy food, etc. Other people get one-off tickets as gifts, The games for a tenner, the bring a friend half-price, and other special deals, winning competitions, local community activities etc. For some it's the equivalent of a holiday - can't afford a few hundred quid to go away, but like to give yourself a treat now and again. Having a ticket to a game doesn't mean you paid top dollar for it.

2) Who said anything about poverty? There is a difference between being poor and living in poverty. There are people who live on a tight budget, but that budget allows for social activities and events, maybe it involves season tickets, maybe occasional tickets when they're on offer. But by banning flasks, and bottles with tops, the club has already made it difficult to bring your own drinks with you (thus saving money on refreshments/snacks - I know, I know, 'just don't have them it's only two hours, ffs' - but still...). If you're living on a budget and using the commonly advised tactic of using cash to pay for things to make your budget into a tangible thing, taking that away complicates things further for you.

3) What happened to football being 'for the people'? All this 'if you can't afford it, don't go' is great, until it's you* that can't afford it, then it becomes about football being too expensive and being taken away from its working class roots. Too corporate. It's all about the hipsters coming down from London paying over the top prices. Footballs gone, man, it's all about the money now.


*I don't know if that specifically applies to you, but my intent in that sentence is the more general interpretation of 'you' rather than you specifically.

Jumpers for goalposts

 

[Sue1983]

I use my contactless card to pay for everything I purchase but I really don't like the fact that the choice to pay by cash is going to be taken away. As some have pointed out there are many reasons that some would rather pay cash and to have that choice taken away seems really harsh.

Why couldn't there be one kisok on each of the concourses that takes cash and cards, where the rest of the kiosks are card only.



At the Valencia game we tried to pay by card for our pies and hot cholocates by card but at the kiosk we were at, all the card machines wouldn't work so the supervisor was called. As he was unable to fix the problem he asked us to pay in cash. Luckily we had some cash with us.

I wonder will paying by cash be the back up plan if for some reason this happens at every kiosk in the ground

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I have just been sent an “Important information about your booking” email from a hotel and bizarrely one of the things it mentions is “Remember – if you’re paying for your stay with cash, you’ll need to bring photographic ID with you.”

Since when did the introduction of ID-to-pay come in?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I have just been sent an “Important information about your booking” email from a hotel and bizarrely one of the things it mentions is “Remember – if you’re paying for your stay with cash, you’ll need to bring photographic ID with you.”

Since when did the introduction of ID-to-pay come in?

Prevention of money laundering may be?

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

I have just been sent an “Important information about your booking” email from a hotel and bizarrely one of the things it mentions is “Remember – if you’re paying for your stay with cash, you’ll need to bring photographic ID with you.”

Since when did the introduction of ID-to-pay come in?

Hostile Environment.

 

[pearl]

yesterday I was in shop that was self service machines/card only. A bloke put his items back because his 'wife guards the bank cards', he then walked out

 

[Springal]

yesterday I was in shop that was self service machines/card only. A bloke put his items back because his 'wife guards the bank cards', he then walked out

Sounds like he needs to grow a pair

 

[Perfidious Albion]

As long as it is clearly written on the match ticket , so the first timer or away supporter does not get into an argument when he proffers a note for his pie and chips I don’t like the idea much but I accept that it is the way things are going.

Having said that, I recently offered my debit card to pay for a £2 drink at the cafe in East Dean. I was curtly told that there was a minimum £5 limit for card payments.... Luckily, my wife then treated me.

 

[beorhthelm]

yesterday I was in shop that was self service machines/card only. A bloke put his items back because his 'wife guards the bank cards', he then walked out

along these lines, i read this week a supermarket that is trailing self-service only has stopped the experiment. the "helpdesk" (ciggy counter i infer) just got clogged up with people having problems, or didnt have or want to use cards.

 

[marcos3263]

I love self service and try to steal as much as I can in many varied ways. There is the scanning the wrong barcode, bagging errors where you push on the plate so the staff have to come and reset it, hiding things inside other things or at the bottom of the bag, the bumbling "sorry I am too old for all this deception etc etc. Hopefully when we go card only I can work out some other scams.

The best one was just the other day in Sainsburys I scanned a pink grapefruit (60p) as a RED grapefruit for 55p !!!!!

winning

 

[Stat Brother]

middle kiosks only

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[A mex eyecan]

Sounds like he needs to grow a pair

mmm, self grown cards, and there was me thinking that the banks issued them

 

[DumLum]

Is this ageist to kids? Most of them don't have cards.

 

[Acker79]

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/17901891.thieves-steal-till---cash-free-restaurant/?ref=eb

 

[Is it PotG?]

Cash free, whatever.
Still the queues in the 'normal fan' areas are ridiculous and they lost several sales today as a result.
Poor, poor service.

 

[Winker]

I went to a cash till today and the longest wait was for them to pull a pint.

 

[BNthree]

Is this ageist to kids? Most of them don't have cards.

Most kids get Nimbl, Osper, GoHenry cards from age of 8 now, Any kid under 8 probably shouldn't be going to the kiosks on their own!

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Used cashless in ESU today. They said that they were unable to provide a receipt. Surely a receipt has to be provided for a transaction? Barbour OUT!

 

[Don Tmatter]

Me and son 2 were in cash queue, Son 1 & niece were in card queue, level points of both queues, me and son 1 served and away from till whilst Son2 still 3 back from being served. Small victories

 

[The Clamp]

Raise a generation that don't know what cash looks like, just swat a card over a terminal and you'll soon have a generation that spend, spend, spend without thinking. It's what the credit card did for housewives in the 80's, the store card did for teenagers in the 90's, and payday loans did for the poor in the 00's.