how far are you from a cash machine?

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inspired by the fact i am sitting here at home wanting to go to the shops but i have no cash, and the nearest place to get it is by the next tube station on from the one 3 mins walk from my house...which would be fine except this is the bloody Central line!

the other option is walk 25 minutes up the road or wait 20 minutes for a 5 minute bus journey...not gonna happen cos i'm a lazy fuck, but i cant believe i have to go just that far to get cash out. maybe my local pub has a cash machine now (havent set foot in there for about 2 years!) - there's also a post office of sorts 5 mins away but they're rubbish so dunno what they can do for me...

so, annoy me be gloating about how near you are to that lovely lovely lucre...or complain that i dont know i'm born cos you live in the sticks and the words 'cash' and 'machine' are alien dialect to the majority round your way

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 13:11 (twenty-three years ago)

EFT POS?

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 13:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Your local pub may well do cashback. Go have lunch there and find out.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 13:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Depends how much money yr after/how polite you want to be, though. EFTPOS, I mean.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 13:14 (twenty-three years ago)

There not a Co-Op near you? They do cashback. Does Spar?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 13:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I like Liz's idea.

I discovered yesterday that the Total garage about 50 metres from this building has a cash machine.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 13:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Can you not pay by card in whatever shop you're going to?

From here - there's a Natwest concession at the fair end of this building.
From home - any number of places on Cowley road.

― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 13:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Oxford's good for cash machines actually. There are very few places where one is v. far from one. Cutteslowe and Greater Leys, possibly.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 13:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to have a cash machine in the next room to me (at work, not home). Now I have to walk 3 mins down the street, which is inconvenient.

However, my home situation is much better - there is one in the petrol station across the road.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 13:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to live ages away from the nearest cash machine, or so I thought, turns out there was one at the Garage about 2 mins walk down the road!
From work, well on Argyle Street there's loads. At home, they've installed one at the Co-op around the corner.

― smee (smee), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 13:31 (twenty-three years ago)

when I'm at home, I suppose it's the HSBC at Carfax, some ten minute's walk away. The Nat West in Alfred Street is a little further. In the opposite direction (about a 12 minute walk) is the Select & Save in Abingdon Road with one, but that's only for dire emergencies as it charges me £1.25 for every withdrawal!

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 13:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Ooh adding to the Oxford bias of this thread. There's a Barclays cash machine right across the road from me. the nearest proper bank is NatWest just 2-3 mins down the road.

― jellybean (jellybean), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 13:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I hate LLoyds Bank. They never seem to have cashpoints in the areas I frequent. For example there is none in either Mare Street or Kingsland High Street whereas the other major banks have branches in both. There was also none at Wood Green (although the TSB branch there has now been converted of course). And a lot of the branches they do have (eg Finsbury Park and Highbury Corner) are pokey with only a few tills and therefore subject to long queues.

― David (David), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 13:41 (twenty-three years ago)

currently 20 feet from one. my office has two of them in the building.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 13:44 (twenty-three years ago)

5 mins walk to the sainsburys machine on essex road. which is a bit easier than when i lived in Arsenal

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 13:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry, but there's one in this building so I don't even have to go outside. Two flights of stairs, though, so I don't beat Chris.

― James Ball (James Ball), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 13:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I hate HSBC because they have no counter service on Saturdays. This is important to me because I'm treasurer of the local fund-raising group for a charity and I have to get the paying in slips stamped by a real person (they are the carbon-copy type, with me keeping one for my records and another copy going to the charity's head office). When I complained I was treated in a really offhand aloof manner and told I could use paying in machines (like, yeah, apart from the rubber-stamping, for some of our events I have a grand in cash, much of it silver and coppers, I'm really going to use a machine for *that*). I was also told that the HSBCs in Banbury and Witney (miles away) have counter service on Saturdays. Well, cheers. And you've just launched a series of ads with the slogan "the world's local bank", haven't you?

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 13:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Ooh adding to the Oxford bias of this thread
yeah, welcome back jill. You just missed the Oxford FAP, but so did CJ, so we'll have to organise another one.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 13:57 (twenty-three years ago)

i had to spend a fiver to get cashback in Londis (precursor to Spar) and it turns out there was no cash machine in the pub. but all's well that ends well.

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 14:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to have a cash machine in the next room to me (at work, not home)

Only just realised we were talking about the same cash machine, N.

― James Ball (James Ball), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 14:28 (twenty-three years ago)

At home the Coffee Time has one but I won't use it, its about 10 minutes down the street near Bathurst. But at work, there is a wall of 6 or 7 TD's next door to our lobby, CIBC has 4 more just down the path, 1 across the street next to the Attorny General's office, 4 Royal Bank machines 2 minutes down the road at a subway stop, a credit union one on the other side of the Sears. Thats all I cant hink of within 2 minutes.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 14:47 (twenty-three years ago)

10 feet away. And I have the keys to it too....

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 15:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I forgot to go to one earlier, but have remebered there's one on Roehampton Lane near the hospital and university. It's probably about a kilometre from me. There are two cash machines in my neighbouring arcade of shops but, as with the internet, I'm used to getting it for free and resent the concept of paying £1.35 just to get some readies.

― Mark C (Mark C), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 15:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I think I can actually see one out my office window right now.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 15:15 (twenty-three years ago)

in my day we had to cash checks (during bank hours only) and they'd charge us a fiver for the privilege...

currently i've no idea where the nearest one is as i'm in a business park 80 miles from home. there's a horse (two in fact, and lots of rabbits and magpies) in the field over the road from the hotel though.

andy

― koogs, Wednesday, 29 January 2003 15:22 (twenty-three years ago)

in canada we have the lovely service known as interac ... it's like your u.k. direct debit but without any waiting period whatsover for the cash to be actually withdrawn from your account (even on weekends).

also, you don't have to make a signature on a little piece of paper. that's kind of unsecure ... we have the marginally better system of using a 4-digit PIN number.

this system is so useful, however, that it's ground some services to a halt. the wait time at a drive-thru or at a coffee shop has increased greatly in the last few years because interac takes quite a bit longer to do than simply giving someone a $5 bill. yes people actually do whip out their bank card to pay for a single cup of coffee.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 15:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Interac = switch no?

In Japan cash machine are (generally) closed at the weekend. Completely missing the point.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 15:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm about half a minute's walk away from several, which is advantageous.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 15:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Deutsche Bank is right across the street from work. At home, I'm about 300 meters from a cash machine, but a good ten-minute walk from a cash machine that won't charge me outrageous amounts of money to use it.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 16:32 (twenty-three years ago)

The cash machines in Japan also (used to) close on holidays; I don't know why they needed a rest!

I am a stone's throw away from one now and at most times. But! It's not *my* bank, thus incurring nasty charges. *My* bank is a horrible 5 minutes walk from me.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 30 January 2003 00:47 (twenty-three years ago)

twenty-five minutes' walk. and stores don't GET closer because i live in the STICKS, okay?!

― Maria (Maria), Thursday, 30 January 2003 00:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, but we city slickers are fucked when it comes to sticks.

[reassemble the above words into something vile]

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 30 January 2003 01:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I can always get cash back from the mini market on the corner of my block. There's a cash machine across the street from it, but it surcharges like a motherfucker. It's cheaper to use my MAC to buy a newspaper or a beverage (even if I don't want it), and get some money back.

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 30 January 2003 01:43 (twenty-three years ago)

fields of salmon:
> also, you don't have to make a signature on a little piece of paper.
> that's kind of unsecure ... we have the marginally better system of
> using a 4-digit PIN number.

that's contestable...

but, according to an article in the paper this very day, the british system is going to change to 4 digit pin numbers, um, by jan 2005 apparently.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,884670,00.html

also, in england, the bank charge the businesses a fixed fee for accepting cards regardless of the amount being spent which results in a lot of places insisting on cash for amounts below a fiver.

andy

― koogs, Thursday, 30 January 2003 10:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Seventeen paces. I've just checked.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 30 January 2003 10:16 (twenty-three years ago)

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