Are ATM’s thick, or just taking the piss?

CitizenFloor · 10-05-2016 05:20PM #1

You’ve been there. The busy petrol station on a Monday morning. Five people queuing behind you at the ATM.

You insert your card. You wait.
You type in your PIN. You wait.
You request €20. You wait.
A message appears on screen. “You must request an amount in multiples of 50”.
You immediately begin to read the minds of the people behind you as you go through the entire process again.
You re-insert your card.
“Why is this idiot taking so long?”
You type your PIN.
“Is he checking his email on the bloody thing?”
You request €50.
“God, I hate this asshole. I want to punch him in the back of the head”.

The only thing that keeps you from squealing and running from the building is the knowledge that the ATM will snare the next idiot as it did you. The moral question of whether you should warn everyone doesn’t even cross your mind as you grab your €50 and flee from the building.

Leaving aside the fact that the ATM is mocking me by suggesting I could withdraw anything other than 1 multiple of 50, surely in 2016 it should be able to tell me proactively, when a certain bill denomination is unavailable?

s4uv3 · 10-05-2016 05:22PM

Well lah de dah.....

Look at you with €50 in the bank.

ED E · 10-05-2016 05:25PM

There's a big difference depending on the age of the unit. Newer ones its a 3 or 4 second delay if the denomination isnt available, older ones you start again.

I wonder if they don't show available bills as a would be thief could imply roughly how full a machine is depending on how many notes are missing?

CitizenFloor · 10-05-2016 05:25PM

Contactless/cashback is great when its available! My only option in work is real walking around money. That €50 was my communion money

10-05-2016 05:25PM

Why bother spending money updating software that perfectly fulfils it's purpose. Some ATM's will tell if there's no 20's etc

kneemos · 10-05-2016 05:26PM

The AIB ones take forever to throw put a receipt,you have the money in your wallet and you're left standing there staring at the thing.

Lurkio · 10-05-2016 05:26PM

CitizenFloor wrote: »

You’ve been there. The busy petrol station on a Monday morning. Five people queuing behind you at the ATM.

You insert your card. You wait.
You type in your PIN. You wait.
You request €20. You wait.
A message appears on screen. “You must request an amount in multiples of 50”.
You immediately begin to read the minds of the people behind you as you go through the entire process again.
You re-insert your card.
“Why is this idiot taking so long?”
You type your PIN.
“Is he checking his email on the bloody thing?”
You request €50.
“God, I hate this asshole. I want to punch him in the back of the head”.

The only thing that keeps you from squealing and running from the building is the knowledge that the ATM will snare the next idiot as it did you. The moral question of whether you should warn everyone doesn’t even cross your mind as you grab your €50 and flee from the building.

Leaving aside the fact that the ATM is mocking me by suggesting I could withdraw anything other than 1 multiple of 50, surely in 2016 it should be able to tell me proactively, when a certain bill denomination is unavailable?

No "Evil ATM" option? Am disappoint.

vg88 · 10-05-2016 05:29PM

What's worse is when you put in your the wrong code:

You insert your card. You wait.
You type in your PIN. You wait.
You request €20. You wait.
A message appears on screen. “You must request an amount in multiples of 50”.
You request €50. You wait.
A message appears: you entered the code wrong, please take your card.
You decide screw it I'm going on the piss tonight in coppers.
You insert your card. You wait.
You type in your PIN. You wait.
You request €50. You wait.
Insufficient funds, please take your card.
Struggle to find another atm while downing the nagin before the last bus comes.

Squall Leonhart · 10-05-2016 05:32PM

Or what has happened to me more than once, wanting to withdraw (say) €80. Error message. No 20s available, please enter a multiple of 50. Fine. I'll take out 100eur. Then.... 5 x 20eur notes are given out to me... aaaarrgggh

Junkyard Tom · 10-05-2016 05:46PM

Butter vouchers were a form of currency at one time.

LionelNashe · 10-05-2016 05:48PM

It annoys me that the BOI machines ask me if I want the screen instructions to be in Irish or English. Having to confirm that I don't want a receipt is a waste of time as well.

Robsweezie · 10-05-2016 05:51PM

Mr.S wrote:

Contactless is a great thing.

Yeah great to be robbed should your card be lost and find itself in the wrong hands!

vg88 · 10-05-2016 06:06PM

Robsweezie wrote: »

Yeah great to be robbed should your card be lost and find itself in the wrong hands!

That's what I've always wondered. You drop your card in the city and say you realise after 20 minutes it's gone. One of our lovely locals could of picked it up and back 30 quid purchases around the place before you notice.

Can you ask for cash back with contact less without a pin?

lertsnim · 10-05-2016 06:12PM

"Oh no. What will the people behind me think"

Graham · 10-05-2016 06:15PM

CitizenFloor wrote: »

Leaving aside the fact that the ATM is mocking me by suggesting I could withdraw anything other than 1 multiple of 50, surely in 2016 it should be able to tell me proactively, when a certain bill denomination is unavailable?

That would make sense but it appears to work the other way.

Would you like €20, €60, €80, €120, €220............
ha ha ha ha ha
try again in multiples of €50 :mad:

bodhrandude · 10-05-2016 06:16PM

CitizenFloor wrote: »

You’ve been there. The busy petrol station on a Monday morning. Five people queuing behind you at the ATM.

You insert your card. You wait.
You type in your PIN. You wait.
You request €20. You wait.
A message appears on screen. “You must request an amount in multiples of 50”.
You immediately begin to read the minds of the people behind you as you go through the entire process again.
You re-insert your card.
“Why is this idiot taking so long?”
You type your PIN.
“Is he checking his email on the bloody thing?”
You request €50.
“God, I hate this asshole. I want to punch him in the back of the head”.

The only thing that keeps you from squealing and running from the building is the knowledge that the ATM will snare the next idiot as it did you. The moral question of whether you should warn everyone doesn’t even cross your mind as you grab your €50 and flee from the building.

Leaving aside the fact that the ATM is mocking me by suggesting I could withdraw anything other than 1 multiple of 50, surely in 2016 it should be able to tell me proactively, when a certain bill denomination is unavailable?

If people start moaning when you are using one of these daft machines you turn around and punch them as hard as you can and say Its not me its the idiot machines, simples.

kneemos · 10-05-2016 06:16PM

lertsnim wrote: »

"Oh no. What will the people behind me think"

What's wrong with that retarded cnut.Is normally what I think.

Snake Plisken · 10-05-2016 06:19PM

Shops are supposed to do a test cash and then the machine will work out if there isn't any say 20's in the machine so should only give the option for 50's! But most stores don't bother!

Jack Killian · 10-05-2016 06:22PM

CitizenFloor wrote: »

Contactless/cashback is great when its available! My only option in work is real walking around money. That €50 was my communion money

Contactless should be optional. I hate the way it's forced on you when you renew a card.

Snake Plisken · 10-05-2016 06:24PM

Worse still you are standing in line and the person in front has 3-4 different accounts and starts taking 20 euros from each account, that really pisses me off!

fussyonion · 10-05-2016 06:24PM

It's very annoying when bank machines won't allow me to withdraw €10.
Last week I needed to withdraw my last €10 and it would only allow me to withdraw a minimum of €50.
NO!
I have €10. It's MY money. I should be allowed take it out ffs.

mansize · 10-05-2016 06:26PM

fussyonion wrote: »

It's very annoying when bank machines won't allow me to withdraw €10.
Last week I needed to withdraw my last €10 and it would only allow me to withdraw a minimum of €50.
NO!
I have €10. It's MY money. I should be allowed take it out ffs.

If ATMs did €10's they'd run out of cash quicker

PTH2009 · 10-05-2016 06:26PM

What's a 20 Euro note. Only deal with 50 notes myself lol.

Never used contactless but I'd prefer the old way of card paying.

mansize · 10-05-2016 06:28PM

I like contactless myself. One of my bank cards has it, the other doesn't

Jack Killian · 10-05-2016 06:43PM

mansize wrote: »

I like contactless myself. One of my bank cards has it, the other doesn't

No issues there. If you like/want it then It should be available to you.

If someone doesn't want it, it shouldn't be forced on them.

mansize · 10-05-2016 06:46PM

Jack Killian wrote: »

No issues there. If you like/want it then It should be available to you.

If someone doesn't want it, it shouldn't be forced on them.

Can you get it disabled?

Jack Killian · 10-05-2016 06:48PM

mansize wrote: »

Can you get it disabled?

Apparently not, according to the bank rep I rang.

Closed the account of the first crowd that imposed it (BoI) but they're all at it now :P

mansize · 10-05-2016 06:50PM

Well EBS don't have it yet

Lurkio · 10-05-2016 06:57PM

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Butter vouchers were a form of currency at one time.

That was when a shortage of a "few bob" would compel a mad search for the vouchers, the finding of which would initiate mad dashes to obscure newsagents before they closed, embarked on on foot, on bicycle or perhaps in a car of dubious reliability purchased from some of our nomadic fellow citizens. Those left behind could only wait, in the hope that the noble folk who ventured forth had success, saving them from the horrors of a night of "gummin for a fag".

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 10-05-2016 06:59PM

Mr.S wrote: »

Contactless is a great thing.

When it works. Mine works when it wants to...and a lot of people's cards are the same. I've used contactless payments in other countries and it's amazing. Of course in Ireland we have it backwards as usual.

kneemos · 10-05-2016 07:06PM

The Hunky Monster wrote: »

When it works. Mine works when it wants to...and a lot of people's cards are the same. I've used contactless payments in other countries and it's amazing. Of course in Ireland we have it backwards as usual.

They haven't marketed it . I've no idea if I'll be charged or not.

Are ATM’s thick, or just taking the piss?

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