What, he doesn't have Paypal?
Old ladies paying with personal checks...
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It comes in handy when the next guy pays his $1.21 order with a $100 bill!
My tenants pay the managing agent who sticks the cash straight into my bank account.
I don't ‘do' internet banking purely because I still don't think it's secure.
I am 56 years old and I have never written a cheque in my entire life.
My sister used to send me a cheque for her share of the annual fees at Ancestry or to pay for me to order books online for her (she just won't buy things online herself). I hate having to go into the bank to deposit ii, so after I nagged her she agreed to put the money into my account by direct deposit.
My sister used to send me a cheque for her share of the annual fees at Ancestry or to pay for me to order books online for her (she just won't buy things online herself). I hate having to go into the bank to deposit ii, so after I nagged her she agreed to put the money into my account by direct deposit.
Cheque's what is this the dark ages? Joking aside there is now only one thing I pay by cheque my garage bill for my car and that's it. In the UK barely any buisness take cheques now, and they are no longer guarenteed like they used to be. The cheque guarentee hologrom disappeared off cards years ago. I think in the UK we are also reaching the point where in shops card payments are overtaking cash payments.
I feel that the United States has been lagging behind other parts of the world (Europe, in particular) in not having that chip technology in our credit cards. Kind of embarrassing, in a way, especially considering how many Americans just blindly assume that we are on the cutting edge of everything, everywhere. I am not sure WHY we have not kept up with this, considering the benefits to customers/citizens. I guess that one factor could be the resistance of some businesses to the expense of buying and installing the appropriate scanners/devices. ....But other countries have done it! Last week, one of the tellers at the bank told me that we WILL have the chips in our cards starting in 2015. All these security breaches have apparently lead to us being dragged into the 21st Century. As Winston Churchill supposedly said, "Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing…after they have exhausted all other possibilities."
I still use checks for paying bills. And I will admit that it is an old habit that I find a strangely comforting(?!) activity that I do not mind doing. It is a monthly, thoughtful tradition that gives me the satisfaction of putting some order to my world. The only problem has been when they print my address wrong on the checks, forcing me to hitch up the horse & buggy to ride into town to order a corrected printing!
I still use checks for paying bills. And I will admit that it is an old habit that I find a strangely comforting(?!) activity that I do not mind doing. It is a monthly, thoughtful tradition that gives me the satisfaction of putting some order to my world. The only problem has been when they print my address wrong on the checks, forcing me to hitch up the horse & buggy to ride into town to order a corrected printing!
I only pay my rent by check, but even that I've paid online a few times through my complex's website, where there is an automatic pay option.
Fewer and fewer places I see anymore accept checks, heck I used to pay for pizza delivery that waybut they stopped accepting them. And, yeah they can be a pain when it's and old lady filling one out and you're in a hurry since by universal law old people do everyhing slowly. I suspect before too long banks will stop using them as thet can be a cost/waste I'm sure banks would like to be free of.
Fewer and fewer places I see anymore accept checks, heck I used to pay for pizza delivery that waybut they stopped accepting them. And, yeah they can be a pain when it's and old lady filling one out and you're in a hurry since by universal law old people do everyhing slowly. I suspect before too long banks will stop using them as thet can be a cost/waste I'm sure banks would like to be free of.
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Today, they tried to pay with a $100 bill for a 54¢ tab (it was a greeting card).
Not much of a stripper if they only get ones
But yeah, a debit card can draw from the same account as a check, so why bother with checks. I too only write a check for rent any more.
You should be able to through your bank, by setting up a payment to an individual or whatever. I'm not sure but I've seen that option before.
^ Maybe not always, but in this case it definitely IS a good thing.
Checks are a relic, nothing more.
Checks are a relic, nothing more.
Lol! I don't actually use checks very much, but I have misplaced my card case a couple times and had to resort to checks at my local grocery store. I'm lucky they know me and don't require my id!
I confess sometimes I just like them to be contrary. I'm a tiny bit a wiesenheimer!
"I hope draw-string bags of some vague amount of money in the form of precious metals never goes away."
Said someone at sometime, presumably.
Said someone at sometime, presumably.
I totally love the new Apple Pay system and I can't wait to upgrade my iPhone so I can put my cards on it. (It's more secure than actually using a credit card, since the merchant never knows your name OR your card number - all transactions generate a one-time token that can't be hacked or ever used again.) Unfortunately I have a year left on the contract for my existing phone but at least by that time, more merchants will be on board.
I'm neither a woman or old (granted I never was really young) and I use them all the time. Debit cards are a shell game and as for credit cards, uh, well let's just say I haven't been in the position to use them much over the last couple of years or so. Checks are solid, dependable, and while writing them, I do so enjoy gazing at the interesting designs I spend so much time choosing when ordering new stock!!!
I haven't encountered any places that do not accept them in the small corner of the republic that I rattle around in. I hope that they are never completely superannuated, but I suspect that that will happen before I shuffle off.
I haven't encountered any places that do not accept them in the small corner of the republic that I rattle around in. I hope that they are never completely superannuated, but I suspect that that will happen before I shuffle off.
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Today, they tried to pay with a $100 bill for a 54¢ tab (it was a greeting card).
I see you also wish to sing the song of our people.
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