A debate has erupted on digitally tipping buskers, after one performer set her card reader at €3 for tips.
Cork busker Allie Sherlock recently received backlash, with reports some people complained on social media that €3 was too much.
Busker David Owens told Lunchtime Live he doesn't understand why people are giving out.
"I think it's all a bit funny, I don't know who these people complaining are.
"Were they going to a tip a euro or two, and then they couldn't, and now they're angry and messaging her.
"It doesn't make any sense to me - why does it matter what it's set to?"
David says the machine has to be set to some number.
"The machine's can be set... juggling buskers will have one that you can type in - but even with COVID and stuff I think that's a tricky thing.
"So yeah the machine has to be set to some number; I think most buskers who are using it, like myself, are just experimenting.
"Sometimes I set it to €1, €2, and I've even set it to €5 at times just to see.
"None of us know what the value should be - this is only in the last six months, a year that they've even come out".
Musician Jamie Harrison, who is a former busker, says they have lost a vital revenue stream in recent years.
"Something that people don't really realise is that for years, buskers were making most of their money - or certainly a good portion of their money - off selling something like a CD on the street.
"And now with Spotify, etc and just the removal completely of CD players from basically everywhere - computers and cars - that's taken quite a hit for buskers cause people aren't buying CDs anymore.
"I can see why: you're trying to get the most that you can of course, because that's the same as any business.
"You try and price it right, and if it's too much people don't buy it and you get less sales.
"And if it's too little, you get more sales but you don't in the end make as much.
"And at the end of the day we all have to pay our bills. It's just the same as pricing any other business".
