Video Didn't Kill the Radio Star, but the Debit Card Is Killing the Check
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hilarious how it's spelled check in America, looks so rough and informal.
Batman beyond style monies some day?
[editline]29th August 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=FFStudios;42004376]honestly, fuck checks. being a cashier and having to scan those bastards in when people want to pay with them is hell because the scanner never gets it right and you always have to put it in manually and it slows everything up[/QUOTE]
dude with 50 things uses a check
next fucking person uses one
its christmas
FUCK YOPU
[QUOTE=Biotoxsin;41996055]I'm surprised so many of you have never seen a check, there's pretty common in the US still. Granted they're probably used mostly by businesses to pay employees. You see a lot more of them in smaller towns than in cities I imagine.[/QUOTE]
I'm surprised too, particularly since lottery agencies special-print giant fucking checks for a jackpot win.
I use checks when I send people money in birthday cards
Since chip-and-pin became a thing over here I've not seen a cheque since my banked mailed me chequebooks.
Wait, you mean checks are not only used in television shows?
I used to pay for all my school trips in Cheque, and when I send off for a tax rebate I get that in a Cheque.
I see checks quite often. Tradesmen use them to pay off outstanding debts at work, and I got my tax rebate as a check.
I prefer to pay in cash.
It seems that, by looking at this thread, only people in US or Uk have ever seen a cheque being used.
Cheques are still useful when you need to pay large amounts of cash to an entity that doesn't accept credit or debit cards. Informal transactions with individuals, for example. Or when you need to pay a small firm that doesn't offer the option to pay by credit or debit card.
[QUOTE=bisousbisous;41995866]I use checks all time to pay my roommate since he pays the whole rent and I pay him half back.[/QUOTE]
Why don't you just have a debit order that automatically does it for you every month without you having to do anything?
[QUOTE=maxumym;42007204]It seems that, by looking at this thread, only people in US or Uk have ever seen a cheque being used.[/QUOTE]
I think that's because wire transfers or post transfers were a lot more popular in Europe. For instance even today, when you get most utility, phone and other bills you get them on a sort of pink paper which you can either pay by a normal wire (which doesn't cost you anything unlike the US) or you can pay it on any post.
I don't think cheques were ever really popular since they require the person receiving the cheque to cash it in so have a much larger delay. Hell I usually pay friends back via wire in case I had something borrowed from them. Since it's much faster and we don't have to meet in order for me to pay them back. Most people I know do the same these days.
[QUOTE=RichyZ;42000787]fuck people who pay debit for regular shit
and fuck people even more for paying credit
i prefer to hand in 2 dollars, get my drink and change, and go
not this "slide, wait 2 hours for the machine to be a broken piece of shit, sign, repeat step two, ok now you're done thanks for wasting everyones time you fuckhole" shit[/QUOTE]
Eh if you have a contactless debit you're taking less time than the guy with the cash and if you have a normal chip one you're taking ten seconds more at best.
[QUOTE=Duplolas;41995650]And thats a bad thing?
[video=youtube;Iwuy4hHO3YQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwuy4hHO3YQ[/video][/QUOTE]
Video killed the radio star was the very first music video to be showed on MTV.
Y'know, back when they still showed music videos.
[QUOTE=Headhumpy;42007428]Cheques are still useful when you need to pay large amounts of cash to an entity that doesn't accept credit or debit cards. Informal transactions with individuals, for example. Or when you need to pay a small firm that doesn't offer the option to pay by credit or debit card.[/QUOTE]
Only really good thing about them. Since they let you get around the bank's max amount withdrawn. Though generally if I'm moving that large amount of money, I pay by credit :v:. And I don't think I've actually bought anything more expensive than my credit limit, except for maybe school tuition.
I went to Montana for a family visit and [b]most places there don't even have facilities that take cards of any kind[/b].
It scared me. I felt so out of my element.
[editline]29th August 2013[/editline]
As a person who hardly carries around paper money, Montana forces poverty upon me.
Someone there used a check at a fucking bakery. Who does that?
As a cashier at a grocery store, I can back the fact that the check is becoming less common. Honestly, at best maybe 5% of all transactions in a given day are paid with checks, compared to debit cards which must make up at least 35-50%.
[QUOTE=LobsterPastry;42008632]I went to Montana for a family visit and [b]most places there don't even have facilities that take cards of any kind[/b].
It scared me. I felt so out of my element.
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As a person who hardly carries around paper money, Montana forces poverty upon me.
Someone there used a check at a fucking bakery. Who does that?[/QUOTE]
This is very true. Lots of places don't take cards. Though they tend to be very small mom and pop shops in the boonies. However, in most places, your more likely to encounter a place that won't take checks than ones that don't accept cards.
