******* Cashpoints (ATMs)

After having fraudulent transactions on my card, Santander updated my card on Apple Pay. Able to use in shops but not online until got physical card as needed the 3 numbers on back!
 
The off-licence at the end of my street has a dodgy looking 'stand alone' ATM insode, nobody uses it because there's a camera looking directly down onto the keypad and the owners are as shady as ****. Then there's the ATM at work that charges £1.25, always wince a little when patients and/or visitors stop me and ask if there's a ATM nearby.
 
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This is one reason I use the emergency cash feature on my NatWest account to withdraw cash (max £130) without a card most of the time, if I'm near an ATM that does it. Just feels so good not having to put a card in.
 
Only time I use cash now is on takeaways which aren’t on the mainstream delivery services. Tends to be Chinese and Indian takeaways mostly.
 
robfosters said:
Only time I use cash now is on takeaways which aren’t on the mainstream delivery services. Tends to be Chinese and Indian takeaways mostly.
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Plus the ones on Just Eat etc charge c50p for a dish and £1 more for pizzas, compared to picking up the takeaways directly.
 
something daft already!! said:
I needed some cash yesterday morning and there is a shop just across the main road from me which has a grubby looking cashpoint machine fitted to the wall. I was on my way to work so I thought I would just pop my card in a get the cash out I needed. As I entered the card, the screen blanks and then displays some errors and the thing seems to crash. My card swallowed, I try to speak to the shop keeper who says its nothing to do with them but some company owns it but he doesn't know who.

I go back outside and the machine is still the same. Crashed and not spitting out my card. I waited a while but it was dead. I so very, very rarely need some cash and today I did and this happens. :mad: Now I have cancelled my card and requested a new one. I had to get my partner to get some cash out for me and I now have money in my wallet for the first time in years.

That was yesterday. Today I get a message from Halifax saying the app has been updated (Google Pay on Android) with my new card details and I can use it right away. I still have some cash to use up but it's good how quick that was sorted in the app. I'm quite impressed.
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You did something daft already. :rolleyes:

Your shop ATM owner probably is NoteMachine like my corner shop ATM.

You can find who ATM owners are at all shops by click on ATM icon on your shop location.

Cash Locator

www.link.co.uk www.link.co.uk
 
cheesefest said:
Plus the ones on Just Eat etc charge c50p for a dish and £1 more for pizzas, compared to picking up the takeaways directly.
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How much cash does your supermarket take on average a day? I think that might give a better metric of how the general public view and use cash. Even the poxy Tesco in Whitchurch seem to take enough to go to some considerable lengths to get it safely to their bank ;)
 
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something daft already!! said:
I needed some cash yesterday morning and there is a shop just across the main road from me which has a grubby looking cashpoint machine fitted to the wall. I was on my way to work so I thought I would just pop my card in a get the cash out I needed. As I entered the card, the screen blanks and then displays some errors and the thing seems to crash. My card swallowed, I try to speak to the shop keeper who says its nothing to do with them but some company owns it but he doesn't know who.

I go back outside and the machine is still the same. Crashed and not spitting out my card. I waited a while but it was dead. I so very, very rarely need some cash and today I did and this happens. :mad: Now I have cancelled my card and requested a new one. I had to get my partner to get some cash out for me and I now have money in my wallet for the first time in years.



That was yesterday. Today I get a message from Halifax saying the app has been updated (Google Pay on Android) with my new card details and I can use it right away. I still have some cash to use up but it's good how quick that was sorted in the app. I'm quite impressed.
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Some ATMs do destroy the cards once swallowed up. Even if the retailer had the keys, many don't as filled up by Securior or similar, the cards would be useless. As seen photos of swallowed up cards and a dent is applied to the chip
 
theone8181 said:
Teach kids to pay for a debit card. Imo it's the wrong message to send. A normal debit card is free and if there's no overdraft set don't see why it wouldn't work.
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My daughter has her own debit card, I pay nothing for it. Has all the parental functionality that the paid debit cards do. The only thing is that I have to have an account with the same bank, which I do for all my online payments.

If you're paying for a kid's debit card then you need to slap yourself silly for not researching the field correctly/being lazy and picking the first option in Google
 
Resident said:
My daughter has her own debit card, I pay nothing for it. Has all the parental functionality that the paid debit cards do. The only thing is that I have to have an account with the same bank, which I do for all my online payments.

If you're paying for a kid's debit card then you need to slap yourself silly for not researching the field correctly/being lazy and picking the first option in Google
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That go Henry one has a monthly fee that's why I don't think it's responsible (wasn't sure ic you realised that's what I meant).
 
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