I went into Comet yesterday and there's a notice up saying they don't accept cheques. They say it's because of fraud.
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20 years ago
I went into Comet yesterday and there's a notice up saying they don't accept cheques. They say it's because of fraud.
Not only that, how annoying is it if your behind someone in a queue and they decide that instead of using their switch card (or equivalent) they'll spend ages writing a cheque and use their card as guarantee instead. Well done Comet.
It's probably been at least a decade since I used a cheque in a shop. I'm quite happy for shops to stop accepting them.
Daytona
Recently a restaurant told me that their credit card machine was playing up, and they said "would sir like to write a cheque instead?".
I could hardly contain my laughter and told them it must have been about 10 years since I last draughted a cheque!
Luckily there was an ATM just round the corner.
In message , NC writes
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Every bank would like to be rid of them as well!
We have all probably heard the one about someone writing a "cheque" on a cow which is supposedly valid. If there had been a cow handy I might have thought about it!
What's a yuppy?
"Peter Saxton" wrote
Peter - were you asleep all through the '80s??
No, I was trying to join in with the level of silliness that Neil had introduced.
Cheques cannot remain legal tender because they aren't and never have been.
Do not confuse the concepts of legal tender and general acceptability.
A shop may not *like* to take cheques, but chances are it would like losing the sale even less, and will choose the lesser evil.
Where? where?
So why haven't they been promoting direct transfers, like they have had in Germany for ages, and where cheques are not at all popular? They seem to be OK with them for on-line banking, but the paper version is conspicuous by its absence. Do they think on-line banking will become sufficiently ubiquitous soon enough to obsolete cheques without needing to promote paper transfers?
You'd just eaten it !
In message , Ronald Raygun writes
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Im not familiar with the German system, is it like Giro Bank?
What I do know is the UK banking system always used to be considerably larger in size than any other european country.
Since when, were they ever legal tender?
Tim
RR corrected that about five hours before you. I've made this mistake in the past and now I do a download and read immediately before replying!
Saw one written on a motor cycle helmet once. It was tendered in payment of a fine for not wearing the said helmet. Our bank accepted it.
Alan
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Dunno. You order a book, the shop sends you a two-part form with their account details pre-printed (and the amount as well). You fill in your account number, sign it, keep one copy, and send the other to your bank. They send the dosh to the shop's bank.
You mean in terms of processing volume? Even including Switzerland? Nah. You must mean in terms of employing hundreds of thousands of bowler hat wearers when ten of thousands would have done.
but Mr Net Policeman Firth is so sanctimonious when he corrects other people that he won't believe he is wrong if only one person tells him.
But in principle you are right, I found it 2 minutes later
Tim
Surely a true "yuppy" would order all their goods online so that their precious time is not wasted slogging it round the supermarket.
Well, given that shops would generally require a cheque guarantee card, and that they generally also double as switch / delta cards, what is the point of writing out the cheque when you can just swipe the card through the machine and get your money that way.
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