British border Controls at Holyhead

AnonoBoy · 20-04-2009 01:02AM

c4cat wrote: »

So i am free to use cash, if I so desire, is that so?, and if so why should I be told I should use another method? however wrong you think my choice to be, its my own freedom of choice I am using. If ones freedom of choice is being questioned by authorities then where is that freedom of choice

You still have the choice. But they have the freedom to question you. Just as I have the freedom to suggest that carrying large amounts of cash is slightly foolish.

It's freedom ya see.

Pete P Peterson · 20-04-2009 01:13AM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Let me tell you about this wonderful new invention called credit cards.

I agree. Once, when I was working undercover for a drug cartel in Columbia, I spotted those guys trading with this "cash" you speak of. I almost vomited. To this day when I see someone at an "ATM" I slap them hard and firm across the face and tell them what idiotic, vile pigs they are for using the currency of gun-runners and drug-dealers. "Cash? CASH?" I cry, "Don't you know us civilised folk use nothing less than credit cards?" Then I spit on the ground before them, sweep my cape over my shoulder and storm off in a huff.

P'ah!!!

c4cat · 20-04-2009 01:14AM

gurramok wrote: »

Its just loads of cash is not a safe method to carry around anymore and in the modern times, going around with alot of cash raises eyebrows, its just the way it is.

Plus you have to watch the pickpockets and not get drunk either

I am never never that stupid to flash my cash and I use common sense

Well here is what my bank charges for taking out UKP30

20/04/2009 FOREIGN ATM - WDL FEE - 3.17
20/04/2009 SKIPTON 18/04 15:40 - 33.98

and thats thats the Perm TSB which is over 9.5% of the amount withdrawn as a fee. How do you suggest getting around that fee? withdraw a larger amount, that defeats the objective of using plastic

projectmayhem · 20-04-2009 01:14AM

c4cat wrote: »

My wife, child and I were pretty much treated like criminals on arrival at Holyhead arriving from Dublin.

Are you, in fact, a criminal?

Pete P Peterson · 20-04-2009 01:20AM

projectmayhem wrote: »

Are you, in fact, a criminal?

No his child is. Devious little speciman I hear. Wanted in 42 different countries. God Bless those British.

AnonoBoy · 20-04-2009 01:21AM

c4cat wrote: »

I am never never that stupid to flash my cash and I use common sense

Well here is what my bank charges for taking out UKP30

20/04/2009 FOREIGN ATM - WDL FEE - 3.17
20/04/2009 SKIPTON 18/04 15:40 - 33.98

and thats thats the Perm TSB which is over 9.5% of the amount withdrawn as a fee. How do you suggest getting around that fee? withdraw a larger amount, that defeats the objective of using plastic

But why would you take out cash if you have a credit card?

c4cat · 20-04-2009 01:23AM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

You still have the choice. But they have the freedom to question you. Just as I have the freedom to suggest that carrying large amounts of cash is slightly foolish.

It's freedom ya see.

Well the bottom line is freedom is an illusion we see it but in truth we do not really have it, cos we do not have choices if we can not make them without having questions as to why we make our legit choices

AnonoBoy · 20-04-2009 01:23AM

Pete P Peterson wrote: »

No his child is. Devious little speciman I hear. Wanted in 42 different countries. God Bless those British.

Cash carrying little perp too I hear.

AnonoBoy · 20-04-2009 01:24AM

c4cat wrote: »

Well the bottom line is freedom is an illusion we see it but in truth we do not really have it, cos we do not have choices if we can not make them without having questions as to why we make our legit choices

That's commie talk.

No wonder you got stopped at the port.

c4cat · 20-04-2009 01:26AM

projectmayhem wrote: »

Are you, in fact, a criminal?

Yea I was carrying cash of ill repute

CaptainSkidmark · 20-04-2009 01:26AM

thats mad, i know guy's that carry that kind of money around with them all the time.

Wish i was being held till 1am tonight over 1000 stg i had lol

Pete P Peterson · 20-04-2009 01:28AM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Cash carrying little perp too I hear.

I know. It's almost like he has no regard for the multi-national credit card companies, and/or the whimsical impatience of a british Bulldog doing his all to protect queen and country against the upstarts in green. Bastard!!!

c4cat · 20-04-2009 01:28AM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

But why would you take out cash if you have a credit card?

Well do they give them to persons of ill repute?

AnonoBoy · 20-04-2009 01:31AM

c4cat wrote: »

Well do they give them to persons of ill repute?

It's actively encouraged.

Pete P Peterson · 20-04-2009 01:33AM

Hey look guys, this is getting out of hand. All I can say is, I sympathise with the OP - I once went to Wales and instantly regretted it. Partly because I was strip-searched and accused of some random, potential, nothing crime that may or may not have happened. But mainly because I realised I was in Wales.

netwhizkid · 20-04-2009 01:33AM

Similar thing happened to me at US immigration at Shannon once. Irish people have a love affair with cash and we are the highest users of the stuff in the EU. We love to carry around large sums in our wallets and purses, wheras alot of people throughout Europe and the US carry maybe upto €50 or Dollars wheras I would never personally leave the house without a bare minimum of at least €200 in my wallet and can sometimes carry upto 5 or 6 hundred on me. I am not loaded but this is just normal for me. Alot of Irish people have upto 4 or 5 grand in dry cash sitting in shoebox or hidden in their homes, most of which goes back to economic calamity's of the past and distrust in giving your money to banks for safe keeping.

I travelled to Dublin recently with some friends and on the train we got some coffees and my friends girlfriend who is only 19 had €1,000 on her in cash, I spotted the sum in her purse as she was paying for her coffee and gave her a quick heads-up about the pickpockets and general scummers who loiter around the Luas machines etc. I do tend to carry less in higher risk areas. I will never forget at 17 getting an envelope from my Uncle and not being told of its contents only to guard it with my life as I flew home from NY to his brother my other uncle here and I gave him the envelope only for there to have been $15,000 in it, another time over $40k was shipped home and we had great fun winding them up of "how my sister got mugged" on her way to the airport:D.

It was easier to move cash as the relation in question was sending home money to pay for construction of his new house and since moved back to Ireland, (illegal emigrant thus the cash). Some Irish construction workers who were not legit on the site (tax avoiders) got paid in Dollars and I am sure they were a bit confused with the whole thing and probably thought we were drug dealers or money launderers.

Piste · 20-04-2009 01:46AM

gurramok wrote: »

Well, every euro note has a trace of cocaine on it as proven by scientists!

Every euro note you say?

RATM · 20-04-2009 02:46AM

netwhizkid wrote: »

It was easier to move cash as the relation in question was sending home money to pay for construction of his new house and since moved back to Ireland, (illegal emigrant thus the cash). Some Irish construction workers who were not legit on the site (tax avoiders) got paid in Dollars and I am sure they were a bit confused with the whole thing and probably thought we were drug dealers or money launderers.

Thats gas:D hey did Bertie work on that building site by any chance? Might explain how he somehow had the equivalent of $50k in his AIB account :pac:

Run_to_da_hills · 20-04-2009 08:42AM

OP this is just a taste of whats to come, just wait until the UK authorities implement E_Borders. :eek:

c4cat · 20-04-2009 09:56AM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

OP this is just a taste of whats to come, just wait until the UK authorities implement E_Borders. :eek:

Yep and George Orwell thought he was writing a fiction story about the future, when in fact it was more like a prediction

Julesie · 20-04-2009 10:48AM

Can't see what the problem is myself. Dog is trained to look for drugs/cash. Dog takes interest in you. Police engage in a little light questioning. Police are happy there is nothing untoward going on and send you on your way.

Sounds like everything worked as it should.

Run_to_da_hills · 20-04-2009 10:56AM

Julesie wrote: »

Can't see what the problem is myself. Dog is trained to look for drugs/cash. Dog takes interest in you. Police engage in a little light questioning. Police are happy there is nothing untoward going on and send you on your way.

Sounds like everything worked as it should.

No matter how well trained sniffer dogs are they will still take an interest in someone if they scent other dogs from material, clothes etc. I knew someone that had their car ripped apart by customs because of this.

gurramok · 20-04-2009 10:57AM

c4cat wrote: »

I am never never that stupid to flash my cash and I use common sense

Well here is what my bank charges for taking out UKP30

20/04/2009 FOREIGN ATM - WDL FEE - 3.17
20/04/2009 SKIPTON 18/04 15:40 - 33.98

and thats thats the Perm TSB which is over 9.5% of the amount withdrawn as a fee. How do you suggest getting around that fee? withdraw a larger amount, that defeats the objective of using plastic

You said the following:

for our family shopping trip to the UK

I am a TSB customer too. Why can you not pay by CC for that shopping trip and then end up not paying any charges this way?

Gummy Panda · 20-04-2009 11:11AM

c4cat wrote: »

There is not a limit to the amount of cash one can carry, but one has to justify how one has the amount one is carrying and for what reason too

Is there not a 10,000 euro restriction on carrying cash through international ports? I remember being given this info on a card by customs in Dublin airport. Anything above that limit had to be wired to destination.

Eitherway 1000 pounds is fcuk all.

Run_to_da_hills · 20-04-2009 11:16AM

I know quite a few guys that have bought bikes in the UK and had them arranged to be collected at Holyhead. Someone selling a bike in a Holyhead carpark is not going to accept anything other than cash.

AnonoBoy · 20-04-2009 11:21AM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

I know quite a few guys that have bought bikes in the UK and had them arranged to be collected at Holyhead. Someone selling a bike in a Holyhead carpark is not going to accept anything other than cash.

Don't think the OP was buying a bike in a carpark. He said it was a family shopping trip.

Mark200 · 20-04-2009 11:30AM

I don't really see what the big problem is with the fact that he was carrying cash. Don't you have to pay charges when you use a credit card? Why not pay with cash instead of being charged just to pay for something..?

c4cat · 20-04-2009 11:37AM

gurramok wrote: »

You said the following:

I am a TSB customer too. Why can you not pay by CC for that shopping trip and then end up not paying any charges this way?

Well for a start I do not want to pay the fcuking €40 tax every year for having one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! when I can simply use cash. If you think that that the
bank is not going to charge you too then you are being robbed blind when you use them, they make their dosh on the exhange rate they use, no bank is going to give you a free service unless its within the euro zone

gurramok · 20-04-2009 11:45AM

c4cat wrote: »

Well for a start I do not want to pay the fcuking €40 tax every year for having one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! when I can simply use cash. If you think that that the
bank is not going to charge you too then you are being robbed blind when you use them, they make their dosh on the exhange rate they use, no bank is going to give you a free service unless its within the euro zone

Its 30quid charge afaik.

I just rechecked open24 online and i have not been charged for CC transactions up north on my last trip.

27/03/2009 30/03/2009 ASDA STORES GBP153.61 - 166.94

27/03/2009 30/03/2009 TESCO STORES GBP44.48 - 48.34

I think the 30quid charge per yr is a disgrace yeh, but it far outweighs the high risk aspect of carrying loadsa cash around as well its damn convenient especially for internet purchases, nevermind going abroad.

I get free fees as i use the current account as well with them, do you not have that deal?

20-04-2009 11:57AM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Let me tell you about this wonderful new invention called credit cards.

Why are you carrying 1,000 pounds sterling on you?

Sometimes cards are not much use. A friend of mine was buying a car privately in the UK. He brought 8k sterling in cash with him on the flight over and it was not noticed by security.

British border Controls at Holyhead

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