The bank wouldn't take your cash??? Are they trying to do themselves out of a job??

Howabout next time it happens, don't pay the bill at all and when they cut you off sue them... after all you have made a legal and acceptable (and probably filmed and recorded) attempt to pay your bill at an approved site.... which was refused. If they say on any of their blurb (and this goes for all concerned, the phone company and the bank) that cash is not an acceptable method of payment, then they win. If they don't say it anywhere, you win.

It is actually possible to do that on some buses in the UK... if the driver doesn't have change and you've made an attempt to pay legitimately, then he can't stop you riding the bus. Mind you , 9 times out of 10, the driver just gets bolshie and the other passengers on the bus get narky too.

I haven't seen any storecards like that here yet.... although there are a couple where you can't shop at all if you don't have your card.... but that doesn't seem to take any extra discount off. Things really are so cheap as to be pointless selling them (children's jeans for £5.00(about $3) rather than the £15 ($10) in the major stores for the same item), but I'm sure it's only a matter of time.

We had a spate of new store cards a few years back... seemed like everyone wanted to get in on it.... ours tend to accumulate points which you can redeem as vouchers or get taken off your bill at your request. At least 3 of the loyalty cards I acquired have since been discontinued, losing me all my stored points, but I've already posted my feelings about Body Shop in a previous thread.....

It seems to me that Sainsbury's have the right idea, they've merged with a couple of other services (notably a bank and a credit card)to create a 'supercard' that will get you points on all manner of things but with the same card. Wonder how long it will be before the rest follow suit.

But I agree, these discounts only with card are no discounts at all, only a trackable purchase record. I'd love to see the telecrappers' assessment of me given my purchases over the last 6 months..... I'd probably come out as a child molesting pervert who paints their victims in matchpots, sews them a shroud and then buries them in bags of compost, whilst listening to an eclectic selection of music and reading the Kama Sutra.

LTS