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« Reply #15 on: July 21, 2024, 11:55:56 »

We've always found it useful to have a few pound coins handy for car parks.  A good many of them still use coins.  After the palaver we've sometimes had trying to pay online when out of loose change, we've rather learnt our lesson there.
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« Reply #16 on: July 23, 2024, 21:59:35 »


I've just paid with a £10 note at the local Coop for the sake of the change. (It was accepting cards after having had problems with the Crowdstrike debacle.) Last year a couple of friends had to rummage for coins after their satnavs had sent them over Whitchuch toll bridge, there's a chance that I might need £2 if I travel by bus before my railcard became valid at 0930, and  I put money in charity boxes.

I got mugged by a local charity in the foyer of my local supermarket. I said I already support them (which I do by direct debit). The lady said it was a raffle tthis time. I said I didn't have any money, and she produced a card reader. I told her I had no card with me, having paid by phone, she produced the other bit that works with phones. I admitted defeat, and took a fiver's worth.
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« Reply #17 on: July 24, 2024, 05:46:49 »


I've just paid with a £10 note at the local Coop for the sake of the change. (It was accepting cards after having had problems with the Crowdstrike debacle.) Last year a couple of friends had to rummage for coins after their satnavs had sent them over Whitchuch toll bridge, there's a chance that I might need £2 if I travel by bus before my railcard became valid at 0930, and  I put money in charity boxes.

I got mugged by a local charity in the foyer of my local supermarket. I said I already support them (which I do by direct debit). The lady said it was a raffle tthis time. I said I didn't have any money, and she produced a card reader. I told her I had no card with me, having paid by phone, she produced the other bit that works with phones. I admitted defeat, and took a fiver's worth.

My answer to that is ........... I do not make payments to such devices as I have been scammed as a result of payments via these devices as they are not secure
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« Reply #18 on: July 26, 2024, 19:18:20 »


I got mugged by a local charity in the foyer of my local supermarket. I said I already support them (which I do by direct debit). The lady said it was a raffle tthis time. I said I didn't have any money, and she produced a card reader. I told her I had no card with me, having paid by phone, she produced the other bit that works with phones. I admitted defeat, and took a fiver's worth.

My answer to that is ........... I do not make payments to such devices as I have been scammed as a result of payments via these devices as they are not secure
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