CASH ONLY SALES - Version 2.0!

This is a bit off topic but closely related.

Places that have minimum EFTPOS transactions are not so common these days but there are still some about.

The Servo at Adelaide River NT is one. I was topping up my vehicle and for various reasons I ended up only putting in around $8 of fuel. When I went inside to pay, the attendant said there is a $10 minimum. Well this started a back and forwarth for about 10 minutes with me arguing I was there to pay for my purchase but he was refusing to take my money (via EFTPOS). At the end of each loop I would say OK well if you wont take my money, I'll leave. He ended up ringing the owner who said just do the transaction.

I just dont understand the point. As far as I understand the fees are charged as a monthly figure plus a percentage. It doesn't really matter if it's X% of $5 of X% of $50, the margin is the same.

Happy Days

So, what do you lot think of employers insisting on paying for services rendered with an envelope filled with used oncers?

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Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

So, what do you lot think of employers insisting on paying for services rendered with an envelope filled with used oncers?

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You mean like this?

Paying a parking fine in coins - YouTube

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Originally Posted by joel0407

You mean like this?

Paying a parking fine in coins - YouTube

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No. Used notes.

That was an interesting fine payment. I wonder if it was accepted?

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Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

No. Used notes.

That was an interesting fine payment. I wonder if it was accepted?

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Well it's legal tender. Just like the plastic cards we are talking about here.

Happy Days.

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Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

So, what do you lot think of employers insisting on paying for services rendered with an envelope filled with used oncers?

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Of course that's OK, as long as the receiver of cash declares their income at tax time.

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Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

That was an interesting fine payment. I wonder if it was accepted?

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I remember reading somewhere years ago that a person can refuse payment if it had an unreasonable amount of coins.

I just did a google search and found this on wiki.

Australian notes are legal tender, as established by the Reserve Bank Act 1959 for all amounts. Australian coins for general circulation, now produced at the mint are also legal tender, under the provisions of the Currency Act 1965, but only for the following amounts:

• not exceeding 20¢ if 1¢ and/or 2¢ coins are offered;
• not exceeding $5 if any of 5¢, 10¢, 20¢ and 50¢ coins are offered;
• not exceeding 10 times the face value if the coins offered are greater than 50¢ up to and including $10;
• to any value for coins of other denominations above $10.

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Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

That was an interesting fine payment. I wonder if it was accepted?

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No, IIRC.

Normally they would have, but the morons attitude was the straw that broke the back.

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Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

So, what do you lot think of employers insisting on paying for services rendered with an envelope filled with used oncers?

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I reckon a considerable proportion of the workforce was paid in cash until fairly recent times when the bugs were got out of direct deposit schemes and the dislike for bank payments was overcome. Some employers were obliged to pay their workers in cash on a certain day per award conditions. Waterside workers were one group where their pay envelopes had to be taken out to the job and paid during the shift. Workers at Brisbane Gas works were another. If the pay was late arriving they booked in overtime at a minimum 1 1/2 hours until they were paid.

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Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

That was an interesting fine payment. I wonder if it was accepted?

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No it wasn't accepted.

The idiot was trying to make himself look cool. The Adelaide City Council were well within their legal rights to refuse payment of the fine in that many coins.