So japanase ATMs are cinical bastards?

[Eddie Echoplex]

So I found this little video. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZSPMmx5Qa4) And there's more about this guy (The frankburger one is hilarious), but, returning to the subject of the ATMs, a friend of mine who went to Tokyo to visit her sister suffered the same thing.

And as a sidenote... I fail at watching horror films :bang: .

Edit: I guess I can't correct the thread's title, huh?.

[six-eight-ten]

I had a recent experience with one ATM at a convenience store. It's different from the ones at the bank, where I know which buttons to push on the touch screen. Then I saw the "push here for English" button. So I did. Insert Card. Okay. Enter PIN. Done. Press the button for withdrawal, and then the machine flashes up a message that says "We are sorry, this ATM is not capable of providing service in English."

Say what? Then why the hell is there a place on the touch screen that says "push here for English"?

[Pierrot le Fou]

Convenient stores have interfaces for many many different banks. The main menu is in English, but if your specific bank interface doesn't allow for English, and/or if there is a menu item that they have not translated (usually an error for trying to withdrawl too late or whatnot), then it will spit your card out and apologize.

[Eddie Echoplex]

Convenient stores have interfaces for many many different banks. The main menu is in English, but if your specific bank interface doesn't allow for English, and/or if there is a menu item that they have not translated (usually an error for trying to withdrawl too late or whatnot), then it will spit your card out and apologize.


Kinda like a Windows error, huh?.

[Digital Masta]

Thats why I just learned how to do it with the japanese interface

[Eddie Echoplex]

Another quircky little thing, are there not jelly donuts with the "normal" jelly in Japan, or are most filled with curry and/or bean?.

[japanat]

I've never seen a jelly donut. Go to Mr. Donuts, and you can get whipped cream - or custard-filled, and the Japanese an (bean paste). My coworkers felt sick when I first told them about jelly-filled...

[six-eight-ten]

Again that might be katakana jelly= North American Jello.

[OaklandZoo]

Japanese ATMs accept coin deposits, and I don't even have to roll them, I can just dump them in. And if you have a Mitsubishi-Tokyo-UFJ account, the ATMs are oepn 24 hours a day, so they are getting better. don't be so harsh. I'm actually considering switching to them, I hate mizuho.

[Ironfrost]

And if you have a Mitsubishi-Tokyo-UFJ account, the ATMs are oepn 24 hours a day, so they are getting better.

...you mean, there are ATMs that aren't open 24 hours? And I thought Chinese banks were bad.

[japanat]

When I first came here, banks were open 9-3 M-F (no change there), and ATMs were open 8:45-5 M-F. My first weekend, I ended up having to survive on 130yen...

[4letterwords]

Hahaha... I remember this summer I was going out for drinks in Tokyo with my boyfriend and his friends, and I stopped at an ATM to get cash before we went out and it worked, then like 2 hours later I need more so I went to the exact same ATM and it said "This machine does not accept this kind of card" or something like that.

Loves it... LOVES IT!

[Mechs]

When I first came here, banks were open 9-3 M-F (no change there), and ATMs were open 8:45-5 M-F. My first weekend, I ended up having to survive on 130yen...

Wait, wait....so the ATMs are not open on the weekend or at night?!?! That negates the whole purpose of having a ATM does it not?

[japanat]

When I first came here... 16yrs ago. Now, they're open on weekends, and into the early evening, but not usually 24 hrs, unless you're in a big city like Tokyo, or you use one of the machines inside a convenience store (which often have a useage fee).

[Digital Masta]

How screwed up would it be if the ones in the convenience stores after a certain time shut off.