Re:Not Paying with Cash
by CapricornNoble on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @10:46PM
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>Carrying 20,000 yen in cash is easy when it's 2x 10,000 notes, but when it's a mix including coins, it's a pain.
Carry a coinpurse. I use an old faux-suede Samsung camera pouch.[1] Plus it's fun when someone is running an errand for you, like getting you a snack from the konbini across the street, and you plop your coinpurse on the desk with a thud, then pour out a handful of 500-yen coins and say "this should cover it", like a feudal lord.
[1] kinda like this: https://www.amazon.ie/DFVmobile-Samsung-Galaxy-Camera-Closur...
Re:Not Paying with Cash
by charcircuit on Thursday September 04, 2025 @12:42AM
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Why have a whole purse when it is already built into your phone which you already are carrying around anyways.
Because my coin purse isn't going to randomly decide that it doesn't like the transaction.
Re:Not Paying with Cash
by CapricornNoble on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @10:54PM
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You would give someone your PHONE to go buy a snack for you across the street? And tell them your screen unlock combo?
Dumping some coins out of my coinpurse is far superior analog, low-tech Access Control to my money.
Before Suica (and a bit concurrently), JNR and later JR issued "orange cards" that included both high value formats and lower value formats. The "high value" cards were 5,000 yen and 10,000 yen respectively, so the new maximum is 2x the previous "high value" orange cards that they abolished.
The real win with e-money is not getting change, in my opinion. Carrying 20,000 yen in cash is easy when it's 2x 10,000 notes, but when it's a mix including coins, it's a pain.