Cashless society by 2020??

[JeffH]

Reported many times previously that they preferred $50 notes.
Business must be good and their briefcases, stuffed with illicit cash, just weren't big enough for the smaller notes.

[humpybong]

Suncorp is also cancelling the issue of cheques from March (I think) next year.    So if you have a cheque account with make other plans.

[fred lever]

CommBank Seven Hills limits coin cash withdrawal to $100 no option.
$500 in notes no problem.
They are closing the net.
Aust Post still just look confused when I ask to  withdraw cash.
They just don't carry much anymore.
$20 in $2 coins cleans them out!
All shops and businesses we go to work on phone tap or card with pin.
The only cash transaction I do now is chuck $2.40 at the paper shop guy for a paper.
Cashless is here now.
Fred.

[Basilstate]

Good to see you posting Fred.

Yes,i hardly use cash any more,only a matter of time before it disappears,5 years?,10?.

[gweidion]

I'm in the process of getting new security screens for the house. Total cost about $10,700. Payment method. CASH.
Guy says, yep, no problem.
Not gone yet.

[Basilstate]

I'm in the process of getting new security screens for the house. Total cost about $10,700. Payment method. CASH.
Guy says, yep, no problem.
Not gone yet.

Yes,around for a while yet.

As an aside be careful paying cash to a Tradesman,make sure GST is shown on the Invoice especially for a large amount like 10 grand.
That way if he's investigated he doesn't take you down as well.

[nealeffendi]

Picked up some paint (2x Dulux for driveway) today for my son. Paid $420 cash, so cash isn't dead.
. Once soon a time $420 would have got the whole house painted, including the guys to paint it. Guess who has been volunteered to paint his sons driveway.

[Mister T]

I still use it from time to time - I'm very opposed to paying the card fee that many small-time operators charge.

[nealeffendi]

Todays phone and internet outage is a good reason to not go cashless. Could not check my account balance, could not pay for an eBay purchase and could not check my mortgage payment.
For those that tap and go with their phone I'll bet they found out when they went to pay for something that they were in a mess, like if they filled up at a servo and found they couldn't pay as many not only not carry cash but they don't even carry a card as they tap their phone. And as I had cash I could pay the $100 for petrol this morning.

[fred lever]

Cash is King!
Went to 5 shops yesterday, 3 were off line and happy to see  a customer with folding cash!
A good reminder to the government about the use of cash.
Like Neal I always have cash in my wallet even though its a pain to actually get the stuff.
We have a generation so used to tapping away on the devices and tapping the device to pay.
It was so "funny" to see them standing  in a shop completely stuffed wanting to pay for a purchase and bewildered their tappy thing would not work.
Fred.

[autocoupler]

No doubt the betting operators had a bad day as well. Pity the outage wasn't on Tuesday, although, I don't mind the odd wager myself. 

Just hate intensely, how we are being funneled down this contrived path of perceived convenience, just not necessarily for those who really count. Us!!

[JeffH]

Yes chaps, cash works fine offline!

I wonder if businesses that refuse cash will reconsider that policy. I suspect not, thinking that the reason is for their convenience, except it is not convenient when the system crashes and electronic payment is not possible.
That disease has even spread to Fiji; our visit in September we stayed an extra night in Nadi as air fare a day later was $200 each cheaper than the day we planned to return. The difference in one fare paid for our accomadation and food. The spare day we caught the earliest boat to Malololailai Island and spent the day there. Musket Cove Resort Marina was happy to take cash for our breakfast. After we walked up the other end of the Island to Plantation Resort they were happy to serve us a cold drink but "no cash, card or charge to your room". Needless to say we cancelled our plan to have lunch there but wandered back to Musket Cove. An hour, or so, before the last boat back to the "mainland" we went to their Island Bar and had a couple of cold Fiji Bitters.

[redlock]

Todays phone and internet outage is a good reason to not go cashless.

Indeed it is!

The internet outage made news here in Germany, too. It was said that 10 million Aussies were affected. But it was not sais where. In all of Australia or only in certain regions?

[Triggersmob]

It was all over Ralf, where ever anyone uses the Optus phones or internet.
I use Belong which is on the Telstra network, so no problem.

[Basilstate]

Yes,Australia wide,with all the backup systems Optus have it will be interesting to see what 'broke'.

In the 3G days up here in Northern NSW we often had outages from both Telstra & Optus,if there was a festival/concert in Byron Bay the towers became congested which was a pain to access the Internet and super slow.

Since then i've had both Telstra & Optus(USB dongle) and had no problems until the Lismore floods a couple of years ago,both were out including the landline.  
SES had removed the radio's from their vehicles so they were stuffed as well,they are now fitting Satellite communications in them so something good came out of the disaster.