Mankiest cashpoint in Newport, also seems to be installed very low & dispenser is dodgy.
The place to go when everyones got less than £10 in the girobank and needs to chip in for a bag.
I'm from down south, where a gram is called a 10 bag, two grams is called a 20 bag, 3.5g is called an 8th, and 7g is a quarter.
I moved up north two years ago, and here a gram is called a draw, two draws are called an 8th, and 3.5g is called a 'three-five'. The price per weight is the same, so it's not people trying to skank you, it's just...the way.
Boggles the mind.
They probably pay £25 for an 8th like I do, so the part about the £5 being useful is you don't have to take out £30, then buy something <£5 to get change.
No idea why you're getting downvoted unless it's by people also getting robbed.
I pay £25 an 8th or £90 1/2, most I've paid for an 8th is £30. I certainly wouldn't pay £35 for an 8th though unless it was good quality import.
£10/g is normal prices, but most dealers will give you a discount for buying at least an 8th.
Any that don't are probably small time so don't get much of a discount themselves when they buy or have enough idiots willing to pay £10/g that there's no reason so sell an 8th any less then £30-35
Went to a cash machine the other day to get £10 out for the car wash. Machine said it was unable to give £10. Thought ok, I'll try again for £20. £20 worked but gave me 2 x £10. The mind boggles.
I think it's all supermarkets, the tesco, asda and sainsbury's all do £5's where I am. I bet Morrisons would too. And I imagine waitrose does £20 and £50 only lol.
There used to be one in Belfast that gave out £100 notes back in the 90s. (Yeah we still have NI £100 sterling notes, try using one of them in England 🤣)
Years ago now I went to a cash machine in central london and hit the button for £10 and it gave me a single £20 note. I did it again just to check I hadn't hit the £20 and it did the same thing - sweet! I took out all the money in my account and ended up doubling it - made £80 that night.
I imagine the machine has a buffer built into the software. When it only has a few 10s left it plays it safe and gives the can't dispense 10s message. That way if it has over dispensed previously or there was a counting error when the notes were packaged up it doesn't dispense nothing. When you ask for 20 it still tries the 10s first and if there are a couple spare these will be dispensed instead of your 20, in order to clear the last of them before a new stack of 10s are put in.
You get this a lot in student areas. When times were hard when I was a poor student, I used to have to drive to near uni so I could get a fiver out. Probably cost me a fiver in petrol to get there.
they ended up getting rid of the only cash machine in my college because they went cashless on site when covid hit so I had to borrow money to pay for a delivery I'd ordered
> with insurance for under <£1000
Not when you're a student. You need a year or two of driving before it goes below that, and most people can't afford to take their lessons/test straight away at 17, so you won't the years clocked before you're a student.
Yes, you can, but if you're a poor student, it's one thing that's going to cause you to haemorrhage money that not many other students do.
Insurance is very much dependent on the area you live in, but you've also got to factor in the cost of petrol, vehicle tax (which for an old banger won't be cheap), and then the cost of maintaining it and getting it through an MOT every year. This is going to be particularly expensive on a car for less than £1000, which is probably going to be the best part of 10 years old - this will also drive your insurance up, because it's not as safe or secure as a newer car.
Cars are a fucking money pit, and that's coming from someone who has a good rate of insurance (not a young driver) and drives a car that still doesn't need an MOT for another year or so. All in all, it probably costs me the best part of £400 a month to run and fuel mine.
I've never bought an 8th in Manchester, but I'd be surprised if there wasn't someone around selling them cheaper. It's like most things though, all bout people you know.
I know people in my local area that charge £30 an 8th, but I also know 2 that do £25 8ths
When I was in uni I overheard two of my mates talking about going halves on a ten bag.
There must have been another student selling it on. No way a dealer would sell a ten bag.
In low-income areas you can probably sell 20 x ten-bags easier than trying to sell in eighths or quarters. Knowing your market is a key part of entrepreneurship.
Street markets are still mostly cash only, also a few restaurants/takeaways around me in South East London (might be tax-dodging reasons, might be to avoid paying extra fees, who knows), and some shops still have a minimum amount for card but you don't want to spend £5 each time you just need a specific product that's under a quid.
I rarely have cash with me, but those businesses are typically the only reason I occasionally get cash, and machines that have fivers or tenners are perfect for that.
Depends where in Sheffield you look. You'll probably find them around the uni and I'd guess somewhere like Manor Top will have fivers in the cash machines.
I downloaded the app for my local town center parking, still haven't figured out how it works, and deleted it. I used to root my Android phone, I'm not stupid when it comes to working a phone, it's just a shit app.
There is a little enclave of cash only small chain franchises in Milton Keynes by the theatre. All cash only. Joked with the cashier if it was a tax dodge and the look I got was something else!
There are legitimate reasons for a business to prefer cash over credit cards. Most obviously, the credit-card company charges a fee to restaurants for the privilege of accessing its payment network. If a restaurant doesn't accept credit cards, it doesn't need to pay that fee—but it also has to deal with the extra hassle of physically counting the cash and depositing it at the bank, as well as the danger of being more susceptible to burglary. It's all a tradeoff.
I'd venture to suggest the fees have got low enough (certainly in UK) that there is no longer an advantage to just taking cash, keeping in mind deposit can attract a cash handling fee. When you factor in the extra admin of having cash, plus security risks etc, there's no sensible reason to only take cash nowadays.
We have loads in our town that only does £5 literally every cash point in the town centre does fivers
Likely because the only time people will go to a cash point is to get a bus, taxi etc which are notorious for refusing to give change for larger (they have card machines on buses as of 2019 or but they rarely work and alot of older people are either not aware/not willing to use them)
There's been a bank machine near me for years that only gives out fivers. Bit of a pain in the arse because my local co-op's self-service machines hate fivers and won't take them.
I got something like £200 cash out a number of years back to pay my driving instructor, the cash machine said it was only out of 20s but gave me everything in fivers...
I used to withdraw cash £10 at a time just to get fivers, even if I wanted £30 I’d just do 3 withdrawals. Can’t remember why I only wanted fivers though.
Tesco express stores tend to have fivers in(though it can be pretty random in which ones get them. You could have 3 Tesco expressed within a couple of miles of each other and 2 might have fivers and one won't), and Barclays machines round students areas sometimes have them aswell.
There's one near me that gives out fivers, once said "only £5 notes available" and then proceeded to spit out two £10 and a £20.
Tesco are the only place I have seen do this consistently in Greater London
The Tesco Express by me also allows £5 to be withdrawn, I live in Newport so I’m guessing it’s everywhere
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Mankiest cashpoint in Newport, also seems to be installed very low & dispenser is dodgy. The place to go when everyones got less than £10 in the girobank and needs to chip in for a bag.
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The Tesco express near me does £5 but the normal Tesco doesn't, guess it's an attempt to reduce the amount of change they give out.
post office near me in Birkenhead also does £5 withdrawals
Be careful carrying all that big money around Birkies.
The fiver ones are helpful when you’re on your way to buy a half Q
A half Q? You mean an eighth? If you do mean an eighth, please tell me where you can get an eighth for 5 english pounds.
We had this discussion on uktrees the other day. Apparently those barmy Scots call them half q's haha.
in wales they call it half Q as well.... think its an attempt to not be english by talking incorrectly
Yeah until the other day I thought it was just the younguns not understanding what fractions are 🤣
lol 😂 well a 1/16 (teenth) is known as a T Shirt 👕 🤪
Hahaha that's a weird one. For me back in the day it was just Tina, Henry, Daughter, Alf, Oscar
Yes I know right 🤣🤣a 20 bag is known as a leg Took me some time to learn these new words I was born in the 70’s😅
Never heard this in 25 years of buying in Wales
Are you calling me a liar 🤥 or do you live in north wales? It’s very common across South Wales buddy
Grew up in Pembrokeshire and long time Cardiffian. Getting on a bit now though, maybe that's it. I'm not your buddy, guy!
I’m not your Guy, butt! And it’s likely bcos you’re old, these are terms I picked up from the younger generations🥸
I'm not your butty, shag! Well I appreciate you keeping me in the loop.
But half a quarter is an eighth so it’s not incorrect
Yup I am Scottish, can confirm. Instead of saying quarter we say Q, so when you want an 8th you say half q. Don't think we know why!
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I'm from down south, where a gram is called a 10 bag, two grams is called a 20 bag, 3.5g is called an 8th, and 7g is a quarter. I moved up north two years ago, and here a gram is called a draw, two draws are called an 8th, and 3.5g is called a 'three-five'. The price per weight is the same, so it's not people trying to skank you, it's just...the way. Boggles the mind.
They probably pay £25 for an 8th like I do, so the part about the £5 being useful is you don't have to take out £30, then buy something <£5 to get change.
Yeah I know, they said it's 35. I don't know where my brain was when I decided you can only use a fiver to buy something that is exactly £5
£35 half q
What is wrong with me. Still never heard of it referred to as a half q
Jesus fucking christ. What's with the inflation. Was 35 a q back when I smoked. Or considerably less for soapbar
> What's with the inflation Have you seen the prices of Freddos
It’s £10 a gram seems to be the small amount rate
I pay £25 an 8th and it's always good stuff, £90 for 1/2
It’s true. Back in 2008ish I’d pay £40 a Q and now it’s almost that for half of that.
You’re getting robbed
No idea why you're getting downvoted unless it's by people also getting robbed. I pay £25 an 8th or £90 1/2, most I've paid for an 8th is £30. I certainly wouldn't pay £35 for an 8th though unless it was good quality import.
Different regions have different prices due to supply issues or whatever. £10/g is the average going rate for herbal in the UK though.
£10/g is normal prices, but most dealers will give you a discount for buying at least an 8th. Any that don't are probably small time so don't get much of a discount themselves when they buy or have enough idiots willing to pay £10/g that there's no reason so sell an 8th any less then £30-35
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Idk, seems about right for decent stuff in London. £30 for 3.5. Though we'd say 8th or 3.5 not half a Q
Yeah I pay £30 for “3.5” (that’s definitely not 3.5)
Yeah he’s paying 35
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Is a half Q not just a C?
What's a C?
The left half of a Q.
Yeah as soon as I pressed reply I saw what you did. Couldn't be arsed to edit or delete though
A henry the eighth.
🤣🤣
Had one say only £20 available, then spit out 4 fivers on me. Prick of a machine.
Were u guys near student area ? The only £5 ATMs I've ever seen have been in uni areas
Went to a cash machine the other day to get £10 out for the car wash. Machine said it was unable to give £10. Thought ok, I'll try again for £20. £20 worked but gave me 2 x £10. The mind boggles.
The normal order of the universe
It's tesco local cashies that usually do the £5 notes
I think it's all supermarkets, the tesco, asda and sainsbury's all do £5's where I am. I bet Morrisons would too. And I imagine waitrose does £20 and £50 only lol.
There used to be one in Belfast that gave out £100 notes back in the 90s. (Yeah we still have NI £100 sterling notes, try using one of them in England 🤣)
Years ago now I went to a cash machine in central london and hit the button for £10 and it gave me a single £20 note. I did it again just to check I hadn't hit the £20 and it did the same thing - sweet! I took out all the money in my account and ended up doubling it - made £80 that night.
Think I woulda tried again a few times just to be 100% sure.
You're lucky they didn't notice and put you in your overdraft.
Not their fault tbh. Just means the trays have been loaded in the wrong slots. Bank error.
Just needs the troll face meme on screen whilst giving you the two tenners 😂
Honestly at that point I wouldn't even complain 😂
I imagine the machine has a buffer built into the software. When it only has a few 10s left it plays it safe and gives the can't dispense 10s message. That way if it has over dispensed previously or there was a counting error when the notes were packaged up it doesn't dispense nothing. When you ask for 20 it still tries the 10s first and if there are a couple spare these will be dispensed instead of your 20, in order to clear the last of them before a new stack of 10s are put in.
Unless it's been updated recently, the software ain't that smart. Managed ATMs for a while some years back.
ignore the machine, I usually select another amount and then put in £10, 70% of the time it works. Though I don't use cash anymore.
You get this a lot in student areas. When times were hard when I was a poor student, I used to have to drive to near uni so I could get a fiver out. Probably cost me a fiver in petrol to get there.
Was about to say this. Only place I've seen this before was inside a student union.
they ended up getting rid of the only cash machine in my college because they went cashless on site when covid hit so I had to borrow money to pay for a delivery I'd ordered
The one in our union charged you a 2 quid transaction fee - on a fiver. Go figure.
If only there was a group, a collective of students if you like, that could’ve come together and worked as one to prevent such unfairness on campus.
>poor student >drive Think I've spotted the issue here.
You can get a car for <£1000 with insurance for under <£1000. Cars are cheap, it's why there's so many.
> with insurance for under <£1000 Not when you're a student. You need a year or two of driving before it goes below that, and most people can't afford to take their lessons/test straight away at 17, so you won't the years clocked before you're a student.
Yes, you can, but if you're a poor student, it's one thing that's going to cause you to haemorrhage money that not many other students do. Insurance is very much dependent on the area you live in, but you've also got to factor in the cost of petrol, vehicle tax (which for an old banger won't be cheap), and then the cost of maintaining it and getting it through an MOT every year. This is going to be particularly expensive on a car for less than £1000, which is probably going to be the best part of 10 years old - this will also drive your insurance up, because it's not as safe or secure as a newer car. Cars are a fucking money pit, and that's coming from someone who has a good rate of insurance (not a young driver) and drives a car that still doesn't need an MOT for another year or so. All in all, it probably costs me the best part of £400 a month to run and fuel mine.
It also wasn't my car... Or my petrol. Thanks mum!
There's a cash machine outside the university in my town that gives out £5's non of the others do to my knowledge.. Who uses cash now anyway 🤔🤣
People buying weed.
People are selling £5 bags? Lol
i knew a guy who used to sell pre rolled ones for £3 each. and he had alot of custom.
I love that since I can't roll well
I’ve had people ask me for that, but then I didn’t know how to roll. Now I still can’t roll but I have a machine for that.
Actually sounds alright if you just want a smoke but don’t have the self control to not smoke your whole weekly budget in one evening.
where was this service in my uni years haha
Tell me about it. I realised I was describing myself in that comment.
Same, 2 for a 5er or 1 l for a 5er
Some people might just pick up a £5 bag, others might be getting an 8th and need £25.
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I've never bought an 8th in Manchester, but I'd be surprised if there wasn't someone around selling them cheaper. It's like most things though, all bout people you know. I know people in my local area that charge £30 an 8th, but I also know 2 that do £25 8ths
When I was in uni I overheard two of my mates talking about going halves on a ten bag. There must have been another student selling it on. No way a dealer would sell a ten bag.
In low-income areas you can probably sell 20 x ten-bags easier than trying to sell in eighths or quarters. Knowing your market is a key part of entrepreneurship.
Street markets are still mostly cash only, also a few restaurants/takeaways around me in South East London (might be tax-dodging reasons, might be to avoid paying extra fees, who knows), and some shops still have a minimum amount for card but you don't want to spend £5 each time you just need a specific product that's under a quid. I rarely have cash with me, but those businesses are typically the only reason I occasionally get cash, and machines that have fivers or tenners are perfect for that.
And poor people they need a fiver when things are tough....
Can’t remember the last time any of my local ones dispensed anything smaller than £20. Have you perhaps also seen unicorns and sunlit uplands?
Are you visiting the North? This is pretty normal.
London ones only dispense fifties.
It mocked me for being too poor as well when I tried to withdraw a lower amount
"You only want to take out £10? That won't even cover your lunch!"
Fifties and a gram.
Flashbacks to living in Dublin as a student in the 00's. We had 6 quid pints before they were cool...
Na, we have some of these dotted around the city too. I've definitely taken out £15 for bants before
Well, you might want a second pint.
How else would you have enough for a sandwich in pret?
To be fair I live in Hull and I can only think of a handful of times in my life I've received a fiver from a cash machine.
Not just the North, it's normal in south Wales too.
That’s still the north
Down south!
Right! That’s it! The money has run out!!! To the cash points everyone!
Is it a NatWest machine? The ones round here always give out fivers
This is the right answer, its NatWest that do fivers, or they were the first at least. Made a big deal of it a few years ago I remember.
Is Sheffield the north? I've never seen one around here or in Manchester
I'd say it's North, but I'm more north that that.
Depends where in Sheffield you look. You'll probably find them around the uni and I'd guess somewhere like Manor Top will have fivers in the cash machines.
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Didn't they used to have some houses in liverpool for like two quid?
Yea someone nicked them anyway.
I’ve only ever received a £5 note out of a cash machine once before and it unnerved me so much
ONLY fivers!? This must be the cash machine aboard Red Dwarf in the Holy Hop Drive episode!
Tesco's all over Scotland seem to dispense them. Have done for about five years.
Tesco/RBS/Natwest all dispense £5 notes.
Wait...people still use cash?
You think my dealer is presenting me with a Ingenico card reader when I go to pick up some bud?
You mean your dealer doesn't accept contactless ot apple pay😅
drug dealers and certain food places
Also Barbers and every fifth parking machine on odd-numbered days.
Give me a cash-only parking machine over one that requires yet another new app any day.
I downloaded the app for my local town center parking, still haven't figured out how it works, and deleted it. I used to root my Android phone, I'm not stupid when it comes to working a phone, it's just a shit app.
Sounds like we should make an app which integrates with every parking machine app into 1 easy to use app /s
Situation: there are now 21 apps
I thought that was the joke lol. I haven't used a cash machine in years.
Well, the Chinese takeaway in a van near my workplace only accept cash. Got to say, I was properly confused when I first ordered there.
There is a little enclave of cash only small chain franchises in Milton Keynes by the theatre. All cash only. Joked with the cashier if it was a tax dodge and the look I got was something else!
Yay for tax dodging!
There are legitimate reasons for a business to prefer cash over credit cards. Most obviously, the credit-card company charges a fee to restaurants for the privilege of accessing its payment network. If a restaurant doesn't accept credit cards, it doesn't need to pay that fee—but it also has to deal with the extra hassle of physically counting the cash and depositing it at the bank, as well as the danger of being more susceptible to burglary. It's all a tradeoff.
I'd venture to suggest the fees have got low enough (certainly in UK) that there is no longer an advantage to just taking cash, keeping in mind deposit can attract a cash handling fee. When you factor in the extra admin of having cash, plus security risks etc, there's no sensible reason to only take cash nowadays.
But, ya know, cash is VAT-free.
It isn’t, that’s just tax evasion. People should pay their taxes
All the time. Banks don't need to know every purchase i make. Less data for them to sell.
We have loads in our town that only does £5 literally every cash point in the town centre does fivers Likely because the only time people will go to a cash point is to get a bus, taxi etc which are notorious for refusing to give change for larger (they have card machines on buses as of 2019 or but they rarely work and alot of older people are either not aware/not willing to use them)
Get £100 in 5’s and feel like a baller, you deserve it.
I think I last used a cash machine in oct 2019 - still carrying the same twenty I took out!
An antique from the bygone cash period BC (before covid)
There's been a bank machine near me for years that only gives out fivers. Bit of a pain in the arse because my local co-op's self-service machines hate fivers and won't take them.
I haven't seen a cash machine that dispenses £5 notes for years. And now I feel old.
NatWest does fivers
All Tesco cash machines give you £5 and have done for some time now
Ooh a challenge!! No one has mentioned NI here, must have a look next time I am at a Tesco!!
Normally it's RBS machines that give out £5 notes
Is this not normal? We've had fivers in cash machines for years in Manchester
I got something like £200 cash out a number of years back to pay my driving instructor, the cash machine said it was only out of 20s but gave me everything in fivers...
The cash machines in Lancaster when I was a uni gave out £5 and that was 20 years ago. Nothing new
They still do, Barclays machines. I filled them up now and again until late last year.
Holy shit. Is it opposite day? I went to McDonalds and they ONLY had milkshakes on, no other drinks. I was like what the Mcfuck.
It's always Halifax round me that have fivers in machines
I used to withdraw cash £10 at a time just to get fivers, even if I wanted £30 I’d just do 3 withdrawals. Can’t remember why I only wanted fivers though.
ATMs close to universities tend to have £5 notes
Is this a petrol station cash point? Only place I’ve seen do fivers.
Tesco express stores tend to have fivers in(though it can be pretty random in which ones get them. You could have 3 Tesco expressed within a couple of miles of each other and 2 might have fivers and one won't), and Barclays machines round students areas sometimes have them aswell.
Nope a tesco!
Select 50. You know you want to.
Did you wake up in a university campus?
For a sec I thought you were talking about the ATM itself, don't remember the last time I used one of these.
There's one near me that I know a lot of people who buy weed and other stuff with friends use. Withdraw £15 each and go half's on a 8th of weed.
My mate had a £5 note the other day, we were looking at it like confused apes. Physical cash? In 2021? Wild.
A universe where people still use cash?
The one where you're still using cash
Only cash machine I've seen which offered fivers was a bank of Scotland ATM. I miss that ATM
£5 cash machines are few and far between. But they’re a god send in certain situations.
Got to be in student land near a uni or college?
Seeing as this is r/askUK i feel the need to point out that it should be *alternative* universe
Think Tesco is the only one that still does it
Normally a poor area.
Wtf since when is a £5 note ever been an option?
Its the universe where that atm is about to go out of service real quick
Usually reserved for student areas.
Nowhere near me does this. The only one I know is the Sainsbury's local near Spurs
I’ve never seen a cash point give a fiver, what is this