Cash only in on site shops
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Maybe it’s an age thing, but we always have a reasonable amount of cash in the house. How do you give a grandchild money to spend on a day out if you’ve no cash? If someone is going out and asks if I want anything from a shop, then I give them cash. Or should I do an online transfer to their account?
If we eat out we usually pay by card, but tip in cash.
Business expenses are never cash, but when I’m on holiday I like to feel flush by having notes in my wallet.
We usually pay site fees by card, but it would never occur to me to use a card to buy a pint of milk or ice cream.
But each to her own.
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In view of the various comments on this thread - none from the club 😉. I have reported the thread in the hope we can have some official feedback.
I wrote - Could the club please clarify the reasons for this? Stating why wardens have to make the outlay for supplies, which I believe to be voluntary, and has which I understand is heavily encouraged. Why the reasons for supplies need to be made with cash clear both in the sites directory, online and physically in the office. I presume any small profit is retained by the wardens 😉
Whoops just reread my report notes and I have not got the word gas in for heavily encouraged supplies 😤. This site is eating my words as I type again 😤😭
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I nearly always offer to pay cash or card on small or very quiet sites. If they have a small float am I not doing them a favour in offering
??As for "Shrapnel" mine ends up in small containers** in my camera bag ready for donating to charities
The containers ** are the ones my blood test strips come in and only require the slightest of modifications with a sharp craft knife to accept 2P coins.
B
So thats why this site is getting slower -- it's due to a diet of high calorie words
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It's amazing how shrapnel adds up in moiety and weight terms. We put it to one side for charity. I fear there are too many people with insufficient funds for me EVER to consider throwing money in the trash 😲😲😲. Charities will make good use of it hopefully.
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What is the ccc JV?
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Thanks ET👍🏻😊
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We usually pay site fees by card, but it would never occur to me to use a card to buy a pint of milk or ice cream.
When I was in Bowness a few weeks ago we twice bought an icecream from the van alongside the lake and also passed several times and trade was brisk. All the customers had cash ready.
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I hope Bakers2 gets a satisfactory response from the Club. There does seem to be some grey areas. JK says wardens are "encouraged" to offer items for sale in Reception which I assume also means gas. To what extent is it encouraged? Would be be frowned on by the Club if such supplies were not available on site? The point I am making here is that if a warden really has little choice but to offer such services then shouldn't the Club be more supportive in helping them with non cash payments. I have been around long enough to know that other than site fees things have to be paid for in cash but I don't recall ever seeing this mentioned anywhere other than in discussions on here. Does any one know if you can pay electronically where sites like Brecon or Hillhead have full sized shops?
David
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Personally, I think teaching children about cash, proper cash, monetary values, how 100 pennies make a pound, can't start at too early an age. If a child can take it in, let them learn. Does the tooth fairy operate card only? Does pocket money work card only? No, they don't!
Save the card thing only until a tad later, teach children about money. Hopefully, as they grow up they will then realise that flashing a card at a machine has to be backed up by having monetary value at the other end, and then they won't rack up the sort of debts a lot of folks do!
Blipping a card is easy, technology is fantastic.........but children need to understand how it all works, and actually enjoy saving for something, once they're old enough to actually have their own cards, then let them go card only.
I am currently helping a 90 year old understand that it's not good to have lots of cash about, and cards are safer. Dad used to tell the cashier his numbers, often quite loudly when I took him to bank. He was so proud of remembering them, bless him!
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Couldn't agree more on educating children about money. They learn from the physical not the abstract. Thus counting has always involved something physical be that beans or stairs 😉. Similar when it comes to adding, subtraction, multiplication.
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At Hillhead David the shop is run separately and a cash or card payment can be used. I seem to recall that the wardens run the Brecon shop, but I think cards or cash can be used. No doubt the club has overall management of these facilities.
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You're citing all these cash only ice cream vans & public loos, none of these have a card reader just feet away in the same room/office operated by the same staff. I'm not saying that shops should take card payment for just a few quid, but if I'd picked some things up in the office as I was booking in, I'd expect to be able to pay for it all in one transaction
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"I'd expect to pay for it all in one transaction"
You Can MM,...... just flash the cash....
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if I'd picked some things up in the office as I was booking in, I'd expect to be able to pay for it all in one transaction
No you wouldn't would you? How long have you used CC sites for?
If you did expect that then expectations would soon be changed wouldn't they. You would know next time. Life can be a learning curve but most soon catch on and know next time.
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Do you never ever change your view on anything? ...... I'm alright & just keep this things as they are.
And whether I can or not pay for it all in one transaction on my credit card, I'd still expect to be able to do so. It's not like the CC is some 2 bit organisation.
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Do you never ever change your view on anything? ...... I'm alright & just keep this things as they are.
Yes I do. I once thought deposits a good idea and then, after considering further, decided that it would not make any real difference.
I just don't stress over VERY minor drawbacks. Hell I persevere on this site as you do! I've has plenty of shit in my life and also lost many good friends and so I am sure that I can cope with taking cash to the shop. It is only a nuisance the first time, when you have an empty wallet, if at all.
And yes I can accept that I am paying two different providers and that one of those providers doesn't handle cards: that does not need a degree to understand really.
A question for you. Why do you insist on attacking the poster? Play the ball not the man
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Very true,and i think most people accept that it is the case go to most markets, you can if you so wish pay the couple of pound to park with with plastic
but will probably need cash if you buy anything in the said market,
and if you go to a lot of stores these days they have several "franchised" outlets and you can only pay for their goods at that franchise,you cannot pay for everything at one checkout,as with site shops
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if you go to a lot of stores these days they have several "franchised" outlets and you can only pay for their goods at that franchise,you cannot pay for everything at one checkout
Very true. Keeps causing problems at our Tesco, which has recently let much of the upper floor to cloths Franchises. Folk keep turning up with a trolley load of shopping, expecting to pay for both.
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also agree.....the physical.....
heres a good one.....Dunster Castle NT shop.....
three birthday cards....£7....
i gave the lady a £20 note and she started counting out the change...lots of 50/20p coins....muttering something about no pound coins....
so I said, hang on....here's two pound coins, that will help you and I only get notes back.....
blank stare.....
i said that's £22 I've given you....minus the £7 for the goods....ill have £15 back please....
blank stare....
call 'senior assistant', thankfully of an age that could count rather than read something from a till......
mind how you go....
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Completely different. It's obvious at a market that different stalls are operated by different people. But it's bizarre that you pay different people for different items in the same CC office.
It's never been a situation I've encountered in CC office/shop & it's only reading this thread that I've found this out.
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