As I occasionally do, I went to the ATM near my branch and withdrew some cash from my foreign account to deposit in my Thai account. I was quite surprised to see that the notes I withdrew were brand spanking new. I mean they were crisp, flawless, and of course in sequential order.

 

Moving from the ATM I went to the CDM next to it and tried depositing those same new notes that were just dispensed from the ATM. Needless to say, that didn't go so well. While in the past the CDM would spit back any notes that were creased or had writing/marking on them, this time it kept spitting back this stack of new fresh notes and I'm thinking it was due to the fact that they were all perfect and somewhat sticking together.

 

After several attempts with wrinkling them and trying to get the newness out I was successful with getting the CDM to take about half of them. I gave up after about 5 attempts. I guess that was a first for me.

 

Even with the old marked and somewhat creased notes I find it humorous that a machine will give them to you but not take them. Machines, just like humans, not all are the same...  ????

Why didn't you just walk into a bank and deposit them all there?

59 minutes ago, ehs818 said:

Why didn't you just walk into a bank and deposit them all there?

Steps to go up?

2 hours ago, ehs818 said:

Why didn't you just walk into a bank and deposit them all there?

Because I'm antisocial.....  ????

 

Actually I didn't want to:

- Wait in queue

- Get my temperature taken again

- Sign in (social tracing)

- Fill out a deposit slip

 

BTW, I pay everything using cash so the need for depositing the entire amount wasn't all necessary.

Why not use TransferWise and save some $$.. ?

 

1 minute ago, Laza 45 said:

Why not use TransferWise and save some $$.. ?

 

I do not pay any ATM fees so TransferWise is more expensive!

3 hours ago, dingdongrb said:

Because I'm antisocial.....  ????

 

Actually I didn't want to:

- Wait in queue

- Get my temperature taken again

- Sign in (social tracing)

- Fill out a deposit slip

 

BTW, I pay everything using cash so the need for depositing the entire amount wasn't all necessary.

So you are telling us you are ornery, and like to test systems. Yeah, welcome to the club.

If you take money out on a credit card, you going to get charged somewhere for the transaction at least once in your home bank and probably in your Thai bank/atm.

 

The exchange rate will also be worse than TW.

4 hours ago, Bill97 said:

I do not pay any ATM fees so TransferWise is more expensive!

Sounds like you might be a Schwab banking customer too.

 

David

 

6 hours ago, dingdongrb said:

BTW, I pay everything using cash so the need for depositing the entire amount wasn't all necessary.

????

6 hours ago, dingdongrb said:

Because I'm antisocial.....  ????

I'm antisocial too but I trust machines even less than humans ????

Similar thing w live people. They want flawless bills but don't give flawless bills.