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@Thehappycaravanners Are dodgy cards in use a lot? As @TimboC says if you read the reasons you'll see why it's been thought necessary on some, not all, sites, to have ID for the safety of all on the site.
If you want to use cash then check the list of club sites that accept it without ID?
It might be difficult to get staff that are all called robert? But aside from that I can't see your logic is this leading to that?
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It's not so much about counterfeit notes but the Anti Money Laundering (AML) Regulations I suspect. Site fees being what they are, if you turn up wanting to pay the fees with a wad of cash, the Club have to ensure you are who you say you are. Personally I'd prefer a cashless society, makes life so much easier.
My daughter had been saving up for something and I bought it and she gave me cash for it. We've just been in Norfolk and trying to pay using cash has been extremely difficult. Lots of cafes and restaurants are cashless (which I usually prefer) and I rarely carry more than a few pounds in cash and trying to get rid of it proved difficult. The lack of local bank branches also made paying it in to my account also not very easy.
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The money laundering regs don’t kick in until someone wants to pay over £7.5k in cash. Even CAMC fees haven’t reached that level yet! It matters not how much cash someone has in their pocket.
See earlier posts.
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@Thehappycaravanners What I would be interested to know is why? Unless you have a steady flow of incoming cash surely it means you have to withdraw cash from an ATM in order to pay your site fees? To me that seems somewhat counter productive as you could save yourself the trouble and just pay with the same card you paid the booking deposit. I don't think we should under estimate the inconvenievce of sites taking in large sums of cash as it all has to be banked which is labour intensive and I would suggest if it became a common method of payment the Club would soon decide to go cashless, or move toward pre-payment of site fees before arrval?
David
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@DavidKlyne We all have to go shopping at some time during ones time away from home, and most, if not all, of the supermarkets have ATMs on their premises, or alternatively one can obtain at the till in shops such as Aldi, so getting cash is not a problem really.
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@nelliethehooker where did @DavidKlyne say it was difficult to get cash?
I agree with him though, I can't see the point of getting cash out with your card to pay for something that you can use your card to pay with? Just extra trouble and effort.
Actually I only carry a physical card nowadays when I know I will go over the google pay/phone's limit.
But I don't agree with automatic prepayment the night before, although I would be quite happy to pay just before/on arrival without going into the office, or maybe on the morning when we're on our way.
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@Cornersteady I don't think I said that DK had said it was a problem getting cash, I was just pointing out that getting cash, for those that want it, have no trouble getting it, which is what I took him to infer from his post above.
We find that having an amount of cash essential to pay for our nights at some of the site that we use.
The C&CC club take one's outstanding balance on the morning of one's arrival, as you would like.
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@Cornersteady But I don't agree with automatic prepayment the night before, although I would be quite happy to pay just before/on arrival without going into the office, or maybe on the morning when we're on our way.
Ideally they’d all have ANPR and fast check in like Lady Margaret’s Park. To take advantage of that you had to pay in advance to enable the system to be updated with your details. Drive up to a screen at the barrier, check in , find your pitch and respond to a text from the wardens re your pitch number.
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@nelliethehooker Again I'm sorry but I can only reply to what you write, which was a reply to DK, which to me implies you thought he had said there was a problem? Why else would you reply to him?
@DavidKlyne We all have to go shopping at some time during ones time away from home, and most, if not all, of the supermarkets have ATMs on their premises, or alternatively one can obtain at the till in shops such as Aldi, so getting cash is not a problem really.
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@SteveL yes I would welcome such a system but I just don't like the idea of paying the night before, anything could happen on the morning of departure, or on route and sadly you don't make it to the site.
Yes you would/should get your money back minus deposit but how quickly? If it's that day assuming you've informed the site then great but so many working days (usually three to five but have had ten before now) later doesn't sit right with me somehow. They take it quick enough they should give it back quick enough, again this is not aimed just at the club.
However yes I would welcome the system you describe.
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Sorry if my post caused some confusion. Obviously members can pay by whatever means accepted by the campsite. I am just curious as to why people would select cash if that meant they had to go to an ATM to withdraw the money when they could use the same card to pay on site. I do appreciate that we all need cash for some transactions, especially for lower value amounts. But campsite fees(with the exception of a few CL's) hardly these days fit into "lower value amounts" category? Personally I do carry some cash but it is always a secondary form of payment with a CC being thr preferred method.
David
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