Tell Me Something............Anything!

[Barry]

The limit on contactless card payments is a maximum of £100, but you are always free to set a lower limit.

[Tim]

Phone is far safer than a card - phone uses facial recognition to authorise any payment whereas a thief can just tap the card (up to £120 I think it is?) on a reader without any secondary validation.

But how many people get their phones nicked out of their hands whilst unlocked, compared to cards nicked out of pockets these days? Phones are targeted far more than cards now.

I've never used a phone to pay for anything and won't unless the time comes I'm forced to . . . I always carry cash and we should hang on to it as long as we can, it's about the only thing left we have some level of control over. It's discriminatory and marginalising to insist on wireless transactions only.

If I was in charge they'd be some changes I can tell you

[Macca]

Chinese takeaway I go to if I'm at my mother's is cash only. But that is Liverpool.

[Tim]

Quite a few Take Away's around me will only accept cash - lots of local shops are pushing back now and there is a local Keep Cash Alive campaign, with many shops displaying stickers advertising that.

Be careful what you wish for, losing cash will have more consequences than people realise.

[CageyH]

Shops are supporting it, as there are fees fo pay for every transaction when using cards/contact less payment.

[Pigmy Pony]

I do not want to be reliant on anything with the potential for "computer says no". Also if and when the R*ss**n cyber-shitheads clear out everybody's bank accounts we'll be in a proper pickle.

[Macca]

Shops are supporting it, as there are fees fo pay for every transaction when using cards/contact less payment.

Remember when there was a charge to pay by card in small shops? They passed a law to stop them doing it. Government loves the idea of cashless society as no transaction can happen without them knowing and taxing it. And they can cut you off from all transacting at the flick of a switch.

And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

It's in Revelations, people!

[Macca]

I suppose a benefit is bus journeys are a lot quicker now since people can just swipe as they get on, instead of stepping on board and then fumbling about in their pockets or purses to get the money out. Like it was a surprise to them that they would be charged for the journey so it didn't occur to them to do that whilst they were waiting for the bus to turn up.

Not that I ever get the bus if I can in any way avoid it, but it's one positive.

[Tim]

I've got a bus pass Martin and use it all the time

I don't see anyone paying by cash on a bus anymore though, card, pass or a phone.

[Macca]

I've got a bus pass Martin and use it all the time

I don't see anyone paying by cash on a bus anymore though, card, pass or a phone.

You probably have a decent bus service where you are though, ours here has always been diabolical. You might wait for one for five minutes or it could be two hours, no way of telling. So I don't bother, I'd rather walk and if I have to get somewhere fast which is rare, I get a taxi which are cheap and plentiful here.