Cash refused

[The Hammer2021]

41 minutes ago, david555 said:

No i do not ,but i am sure they know ....lol

You might find it advisable to comment about those subject you know about. App based payment systems  are safer than cash! Are more secure.  That's why businesses use them..!

[david555]

4 minutes ago, The Hammer2021 said:

You might find it advisable to comment about those subject you know about. App based payment systems  are safer than cash! Are more secure.  That's why businesses use them..!

I will keep to give my comments as i think about them , but it could be they are wrong .....but that is freedom of speech and opinion . 

 

I am not so influensable by others unless they are overwhelming  right ????

 

[Gottfrid]

5 hours ago, billd766 said:

I would call it stupidity on the hotels part. For every 4 persons over 50 weeks is equal tp 160,000 thb.

160k. Ouch! That´s really what they are looking for. Pocket change.

[Polar Bear]

5 hours ago, Caldera said:

At least they still accept bank cards! I'm more concerned about places that only accept QR code payments. While that isn't a problem for me personally, a foreign tourist can usually neither open a Thai bank account nor a TrueMoney wallet, so how are they going to pay at such a place?

I had to pay for a visa extension today and they only accepted QR payment. The desks issuing resident certificates were still taking cash though ????.

[bbko]

In the past I had a small business here in Thailand and I suspected one of my workers was skimming money (fired him), but since then I can understand businesses wanting to keep cash out of worker's hands and opt to go the cashless route, worker theft. 

On the flip side, I can see a where a business owner/operator would want to keep the digital paper trail to a minimum, easier to report less income/pay less in taxes. 

 

People boycotting a business be cause of their payment stance make me laugh. 

[phetphet]

5 hours ago, Captain Monday said:

In 10 years or so nobody will be passing dirty notes or "renumerating with metallic tender discs"

 

Cash will be banned.

 

Good riddance. 

And when your bank's systems, or the internet go down ( the first happened several times in the UK in the last two years), how will you buy food or pay for goods?

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/lifestyle/bank-scotland-lloyds-halifax-down-25486405

Edited January 12, 2022 by phetphet

[BritManToo]

Just now, phetphet said:

And when your bank's systems, or the internet go down ( the first happened several times in the UK in the last two years), how will you buy food or pay for goods?

I'll just have to eat what's in the fridge/freezer/larder until the bank computers start working again.

[spidermike007]

5 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

The OP stated that the hotel has "lost B800 a week", that's B40,000 per year, not B160k, and only if he goes there every week of the year.  How will it ever survive without that annual £870/$1,195?!

Well, it adds up. You alienate too many customers with silly policies, and there they go. Cashless is not a thing here. Yet. I hope it will never be a thing here. 

 

Some men have told me in the US that their wives are very uncomfortable with them carrying cash. And some go along with this additional level of emasculation. What can one say to that? Especially when the man is earning all the cash. It is twelve steps beyond belief. 

[JayClay]

5 hours ago, david555 said:

So do the phishing and hacking people....

Muggers, on the other hand, hate it ????????‍♂️

[JayClay]

23 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Some men have told me in the US that their wives are very uncomfortable with them carrying cash. And some go along with this additional level of emasculation

What does carrying cash have to do with masculinity???

[Guest Isaanlife]

11 hours ago, mikebell said:

 I did not stay there for 15 years but have been using their excellent sports facilities 4 times a week @ 200 baht a pop = 800 lost.

It is obvious that puny amount is of no concern to them.  

 

Who in this world in 2022 does not have a bank card and why?

[EVENKEEL]

11 minutes ago, JayClay said:

What does carrying cash have to do with masculinity???

What does following your wife's commands have to do with masculinity?

[spidermike007]

22 minutes ago, JayClay said:

What does carrying cash have to do with masculinity???

When a man gives up carrying cash, to allow his woman to have a greater degree of control over his life, that is a pathetic and sad thing to witness. It is a huge surrender of his manhood. Often, they will justify it with the typical answers. But, we know what is really going on. 

 

Fortunately that degree of surrender is not required here. Nor is it even considered dignified. Women here seem to appreciate a man being a man. However, some who were overly indoctrinated in the West, NZ or Oz, will bring those tendencies here. That is infinitely more sad to witness, because it is so unnecessary. 

 

I love carrying a wad of cash. I have a good friend who always seems to have 20,000 baht or so, in his pocket. A real man's man. 

Edited January 12, 2022 by spidermike007

[SidJames]

9 minutes ago, Isaanlife said:

It is obvious that puny amount is of no concern to them.  

 

Who in this world in 2022 does not have a bank card and why?

My bangkok bank card doesn't work despite my complaints to the bank & their calls to the 'head office' in Bangkok to rectify this.

It works as an ATM card.

There are bankrupties & people who have been victims ID theft that ends end shutting down all their credit & debit options which leaves them as cash as the only option then there are the elderly rural people around the world who have never been in the system & don't even use mobile phones.

[joecoolfrog]

Im resident in the UK and literally haven't used cash for several years with one exception.

My local barber only deals in cash and I suspect that is for tax avoidance purposes.

[USNret]

What is cash??

[jacko45k]

15 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

1 in 887, so a 0.1% chance.

 

The bank wasn't doing the scamming, it was one now fired and jailed employee. 

Good, although many who see a scam, performed by a bank employee, on a banks premises (maybe), on bank passbooks,  would not discern.. it is a bank scam or a scam in a bank!

Edited January 12, 2022 by jacko45k

[EVENKEEL]

8 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

When a man gives up carrying cash, to allow his woman to have a greater degree of control over his life, that is a pathetic and sad thing to witness. It is a huge surrender of his manhood. Often, they will justify it with the typical answers. But, we know what is really going on. 

 

Fortunately that degree of surrender is not required here. Nor is it even considered dignified. Women here seem to appreciate a man being a man. However, some who were overly indoctrinated in the West, NZ or Oz, will bring those tendencies here. That is infinitely more sad to witness, because it is so unnecessary. 

 

I love carrying a wad of cash. I have a good friend who always seems to have 20,000 baht or so, in his pocket. A real man's man. 

That reminds me, got to hit the ATM today. 20K is my usual withdrawl. Using a card sort of desensitizes the cost. Recently in the USA I found myself using my card for buying gas because I could pay at the pump and the high gas prices was easier forgotten. 

 

[EricTh]

It's ridiculous, I was recently refused cash for using DHL.

 

They should accept all types of money and not just digital.

 

Why print money when you can use it?

[sanmyintmaung]

16 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Wrong, cash is accepted, maybe the one that you used is the exception.

Starbucks Thailand stop accepting cash in selected stores. They are all listed under cashless-store. 

https://www.starbucks.co.th/cashless-store/

[RJRS1301]

17 hours ago, itsari said:

Many shops will charge 2.5 percent for using a bank card in Chiang Mai area . Forcing you to head off to a ATM conveniently  located at the entrance to the shop .

Appears to me that the shop owners just want cash for tax avoidance as proper receipts for the payment needs to be asked for and often reluctant to supply .

Is there also a fee for withdrawal from the ATM?

[itsari]

1 minute ago, RJRS1301 said:

Is there also a fee for withdrawal from the ATM?

Can be a 10baht fee if the ATM is not owned by my bank . 

[Andycoops]

21 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Seems to be the way things are going.  Here in Bangkok, most Starbucks and Subways are now "cashless".

Good, I don't patronise either US franchise and never will.

Edited January 13, 2022 by Andycoops

[flbkk]

Usually it’s the other way around. They have signs advertising taking various forms of non-cash payments. But when you offer a card, it’s either the machine is broken or they require a 300 baht minimum.

[rwill]

Do they allow you to pay by scanning using your banks phone app?  It really is handier than paying in cash a lot of times.

[Surasak]

19 hours ago, champers said:

I can still touch my toes.

So could I if they were on my knees????

[Asquith Production]

21 hours ago, champers said:

Cash is king.

Yes for the moment. We are every year becoming a more cashless society and eventually everybody will have to conform else you will not be able to operate financially. The younger generations tend to embrace these things and the older less flexible will just die off

[Tropposurfer]

21 hours ago, overherebc said:

Just a thread that will keep going backwards and forwards til someone gives up.

I'm over it, and moving on already lol ???????? Table tennis is a radical leftist tool to turn people to the dark and evil socialist lazy indolent side ????????????????????!!!!

[JohnBetong]

15 hours ago, SidJames said:

It struck me that people must be charged the wrong price many times with this new tap & pay method because you don't factor the price in as much as when you are physically handing over cash & counting your change.

My local street vendor no longer sells sweet mangoes…  so I hand picked some in Big C, weighed, swiped and checked the price. I was charged about 120 Baht per kilo instead of the 90 Baht displayed price!  The young lad checked the displayed price and issued a revised bill. 
 

I’m now wary of the ease it is to be incorrectly charged

 

i also make a habit of checking change. I once returned 1,000 Baht and never forget the look on the cashier’s face, priceless ????

[Skeptic7]

22 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Seems to be the way things are going.  Here in Bangkok, most Starbucks and Subways are now "cashless".

They accept cashless payments of various types. They do not refuse cash.