hk blues Posted July 11, 2022 Posted July 11, 2022 2 hours ago, skippyscage said: about time to come into the present and roll out contactless everywhere - debit and credit cards and wallets, like Apple Pay, Andriod Pay, GCash etc. I did a trip to the US, Turkey and Greece lately and used exactly zero cash anywhere - this has been accelerated due to Covid and makes life real easy. Yes...and No! Unfortunately, the Tech environment here is not yet prepared for such a jump. It's not so rare that the store cannot accept card payments as the internet is down for one reason or another. A bug bear of mine is also ATM's - an unreasonably high number are not working when I try to use them. Only once the place gets up to speed with the tech can stores make the move to contactless. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colsie Posted July 11, 2022 Author Posted July 11, 2022 (edited) 38 minutes ago, hk blues said: Yes...and No! Unfortunately, the Tech environment here is not yet prepared for such a jump. It's not so rare that the store cannot accept card payments as the internet is down for one reason or another. A bug bear of mine is also ATM's - an unreasonably high number are not working when I try to use them. Only once the place gets up to speed with the tech can stores make the move to contactless. Sometimes here in the province the sari sari store doesn't have change for 100 peso note Might be another decade or so before cashless transactions used here... Edited July 11, 2022 by Colsie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey G Posted July 11, 2022 Posted July 11, 2022 The whole thing sounds like a solution looking for a problem 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viking Posted July 11, 2022 Posted July 11, 2022 10 hours ago, skippyscage said: about time to come into the present and roll out contactless everywhere - debit and credit cards and wallets, like Apple Pay, Andriod Pay, GCash etc. I did a trip to the US, Turkey and Greece lately and used exactly zero cash anywhere - this has been accelerated due to Covid and makes life real easy. I tend to disagree. In my place it is now impossible to use cash in many places and I hate it! It is fine if it is possible to pay with card or other electronic suloutions BUT in my opinion it should never be allowed to deny cash. I really hope that Philippines won't go this way! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jollygoodfellow Posted July 11, 2022 Posted July 11, 2022 13 hours ago, skippyscage said: about time to come into the present and roll out contactless everywhere - debit and credit cards and wallets, Would be good if one could use a debit card to book a flight on PAL. Credit card only, no debit. Beats me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum Support Mike J Posted July 11, 2022 Forum Support Posted July 11, 2022 11 hours ago, Colsie said: A bug bear of mine is also ATM's - an unreasonably high number are not working when I try to use them. Same thing with urinals in the department stores. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skippyscage Posted July 11, 2022 Posted July 11, 2022 4 hours ago, Viking said: I tend to disagree. In my place it is now impossible to use cash in many places and I hate it! It is fine if it is possible to pay with card or other electronic suloutions BUT in my opinion it should never be allowed to deny cash. I really hope that Philippines won't go this way! I didn't say deny cash - all the places I used contactless also accepted cash - it's a choice. You buy some high priced items or services and it's often cash only here -- smacks of tax evasion IMO -- especially since the ATMs have a low maximum you can pull out, which is why the ATM lines are so long -- as usual it's inefficient 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Hounddriver Posted July 12, 2022 Posted July 12, 2022 5 hours ago, Viking said: In my place it is now impossible to use cash in many places and I hate it! Even now? It was that way in many places here, during the middle of the pandemic, but these days all stores near me will accept cash. Problem is I have started to like Tap n go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colsie Posted July 12, 2022 Author Posted July 12, 2022 (edited) 5 hours ago, Jollygoodfellow said: Would be good if one could use a debit card to book a flight on PAL. Credit card only, no debit. Beats me. I used my gcash debit card last week to book PAL, I couldn't get my Landbank, Metrobank to work... But Gcash debit card worked... Edited July 12, 2022 by Colsie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted July 12, 2022 Posted July 12, 2022 6 hours ago, Mike J said: Same thing with urinals in the department stores. At least that only stops you making a deposit rather than a withdrawal! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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