US aims to relaunch dollar coin

[Zkribbler]

If at first you don't succeed...
fail, fail again.

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Stuie
Why does the government insist we have a one dollar coin? I think the fact that the American public has proven unreceptive to past attempts would indicate that we don't want or need one.

Indeed... yeah, it might save some money, but we don't bloody want them. Isn't that obvious?

We don't like coins, heck we don't like the coins we have now ... if they introduced a $.25 note we'd stop using quarters, after all ...

[JimmyCracksCorn]

I will echo what DanS said. I hate all cash, its annoying. Credit and Debit are all I need. In fact, certain stores which only accept cash (like Tim Hortons) I refuse to do business with. Cash should be done away with.

But if you must have cash, you may as well make it efficient. Americans just need to suck it up and accept it. The Loonie works very well here:

[Wezil]

There is nothing better than being behind several people paying by debit.

[SlowwHand]

What's it matter? Half the cashiers are incapable of making change.

[Krill]

any coin has to have an odd number of sides to work in a vending machine; the diametre of the coin has to be constant. That is why the 20p has 5 sides adn the 50p 7. 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, £1 and £2 are all round.

And to be fair I prefer having coins. Having so many 1 dollar bills just seemed weird when I was in the US.

And having each coin be round and without the amount it is worth written on it is a bloody pain for tourists, y'ken?

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Oerdin
The idea of having 50 different coins with different pictures on it is retarded. They're trying to get Americans to accept a coin instead of a dollar bill so why the hell confuss people with 50 different coins? It would be better to have one coin.

It's no different than the country specific euro coins. If the shape and color remains the same, the actual picture won't matter much.

[Wezil]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
What's it matter? Half the cashiers are incapable of making change.

And half the consumers are incapable of using the tech efficiently.

[DanS]

Debit cards are another thing entirely than credit cards and are indeed annoying because the customer has to enter a PIN number.

Most low dollar value credit card transactions don't even require a signature any more and often the store even asks you whether you need a receipt.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
What's it matter? Half the cashiers are incapable of making change.

HEY!!!!

[JimmyCracksCorn]

Originally posted by DanS
Debit cards are another thing entirely than credit cards and are indeed annoying because the customer has to enter a PIN number.

Most low dollar value credit card transactions don't even require a signature any more and often the store even asks you whether you need a receipt.

Whats so difficult? You hit OK, select an account, put in a PIN, hit OK and within seconds its over. It only becomes a problem with ancient machines that take 10 or so seconds to complete the transactions.

Debit is certainly no slower than getting change. Or at least, it shouldn't be. Modern debit machines process almost instantaneously.

[DanS]

The bottom line is that credit cards have at least one less step (the PIN number stuff), so are better.

[Imran Siddiqui]

But a lot of times require the cashier to 'swipe' them, which may involve them asking to see ID, which can also take up time. I prefer debit card sliders.

[DanS]

They only ask for ID when they're having lots of trouble with fraud.

[JimmyCracksCorn]

Yeah, but you have to sign for credit.

Debit is the best. But I generally use a credit card though because of a rewards program I have with my bank.