Are Hole In The Wall Cash Dispensers.........

[Jeza]

Named after Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. After all they were the hole in the wall gang. They robbed people. So do the cash dispensers. Just a thought, having been robbed by £20.

[sherrardk]

I got robbed of £20 by the one in the local shop (it is a very dubious machine, spends age deciding if it actually has the cash to give to you). I complained to all sorts, never got the money back. Then one day it gave me £20 extra - karma I suppose (don't use it now unless desperate).

[Jeza]

Mine was at the Halifax Sher. Never used one since. Halifax said "Not possible". I said goodbye and moved my account.

[craft1948]

Jeza I lost £250 fro the Halifax ATM, complained straight away and went back the following day to be told the cash had balanced and I was virtually accused of lying.
I closed 3 Halifax accounts that day.

[Jeza]

I also complained immediately Craft. It didn't seem to matter to them. all I got was not possible. I lost £20 far worse for you. Now if I want cash I either get it from the supermarket (£50) if I want more I go INTO the bank.

[hc4361]

They are properly called ATMs (automatic teller machines). Maybe I've been lucky but I've used them hundreds of times without a hitch.

[robert551069]

I was once short changes by an ATM and I asked the man behind me to be a witness. He gave me his card showing that he was an executive in the War Office (before it changed its name to Ministry of Defence).
I went into into the bank and they paid me without hesitation.
Presumably they did not want to argue with the War Office or they might have been shot down in flames!

[EcclesCake]

That is quite an achievement Robert, the War Office ceased to exist in 1964, 3 years before the first ATM was installed in the UK.

Assuming Wiki is correct ;-)

[Old_Geezer]

I have known notes stick. One person doesn't get their cash. (The next user finds extra when their wad dislodges the previous.) As far as the bank is concerned the numbers tally. The cash loser is then hoping customer relations and a record of not trying it on might gets them reimbursed.

[chrisgel]

It's a nice idea about Butch Cassidy etc. but if it were the reason you would have thought the Americans would call them hole-in-the-wall machines.
As far as I'm aware it's only here in the UK that phrase is used. :)

[tonyav]

It' pretty much that ATM machines are or used to be set in a hole in the wall in the side of a banks building imo.

[DJHawkes]

I know that I have called them that ever since I can remember! It must have originated up here in the north though.

[tonyav]

Always called them 'Hole in the wall' here in the West mids as well, dot.

[Old_Geezer]

Agreed Tony. Unconvinced of that Dot :-)

[tonyav]

Mmmmmm, yes O G, I'm thinking that dot means Wigan or Preston inparticular lol.

[DJHawkes]

well the first i heard it i worked in ormskirk and shopped in liverpool back in the late 70s.

[Buenchico]

A pedantic point, maybe, but if it's not a Barclay's ATM, it's not a 'hole in the wall'. Barclays have registered 'hole in the wall' as their own trademark.

[Buenchico]

PS: My local branch of Barclays definitely had a hole in the wall last year, even if it no longer had a cash machine!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-19026835

[bednobs]

cashpoint is lloyds own name too

[Old_Geezer]

Bit like Hoover and Fridge. Someone may officially own a particular name but it can still be the generic one from common usage.