This is a crappy loud thinking post.
5-10 Years ago, before the Banking revolution, nobody would have believed that anyone could prefer cheque/card/Electronic Fund Transfer over Hard Cash. But here we are in the 21st Century.
Here are some real life situations that I can recall where people preferred banks over cash. If you remember any other unique situation, then let me know.
eg:
1) My credit card company does not accept cash. If one has to make a payment, we better pay via Demand Draft or Cheque.
2) A friend of mine was roaming around the office with a 100k in cash. His concern was that he was due for an EMI cheque payment on a housing loan and although 3 of his friends were ready to give a short term cash advance to him, but nobody wanted him to hand over this bundle of cash in lieu of the EFT (to ensure that his housing cheque did not bounce)
3) Citibank issues/accepts Demand Draft for free from its account holders. But when my father went to their branch to do a cash deposit. It slapped me with a 150/- teller charge.
4) I went to a travel agency to book my thailand trip tickets. Due to some weired reason, one of my group mate offered to pay for his expenses through cash (instead of cheque like everybody else) Initially the travel agent resisted accepting cash. But later on, to my surprise, he took cash… then went to a bank and issued a DD for the same amount and then entered the DD number into his database.
I wonder if the cashless payments are so much in vogue (esp for large legal transactions), why people resisted it earlier.
8 replies on “No Cash Please”
Some banks will slap a fee if u are making credit card payments in cash !!!!
i agree… btw did u get ur problems with CC company sorted out?
yeah, they refunded the amount to me 🙂
hmm! sort of like cash becomes a cash commodity in a futures contract.
nah cancel that, it doesn’t make sense! 🙂
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@Fark…
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the futures contract would make a lot of sense if you are regularly dealing with Forex etc.
I doubt if anybody wants to hedge their daily expenses and grocery bills in the commodities market
thanks to all the anti money laundering and income tax system of looking at cash as a channel of black money and every cash deposit being taken as income this has to happen
in small towns and villages cash is still king
torn soiled crumpled or wrinkled
cash is still king
once when id been to some very small town in kerala it so happened that i needed a change of 2000 in brand new fresh from rbi golden 500 notes
to smaller denomination tender
the guy literally took 20 minutes as my notes was carefully examined and travelled all around the bank right up to the managers cabin and it was decided who should hold on to the prized notes as they were the first to land up in that town
:)) i have had a similar experience when i offered few crisp 1000 rupee note at an electronic shop.
i agree that in small places people still prefer cash, but in cities the landscape has drastically changed.
So that’s the case? Quite a relivateon that is.