Ever had a £50 note refused?
cultureman
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Today for the first time in my life a shop (where I have been a customer for 4 years I may add) refused to accept my £50 note as payment for a £10 item. The owner claimed she had insufficient change in her till which I'm convinced is absolute BS since this was early evening and the shop is an always busy, early morning til late at night newsagent-cum-corner shop, with daily takings of I imagine easily four figures.
So have you ever had your lawful tender refused by a shop? If so how did you feel about it?
So have you ever had your lawful tender refused by a shop? If so how did you feel about it?
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She's a bit silly and lost your trade.
I went in one up the road from me to collect £40 I'd won on the lottery and they didn't have enough to pay me. Don't the lottery operators check these people out to see if they can pay out?
Me neither!
Totally agree.
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I have had to refuse one and the police were involved once, as the triangle thing wasn't rubbing any colour off (that's how I've been told to check if they're real lol), turned out he'd been putting fakes in the till all night. :eek:
I have, but it wasn't mine.
I've had a bank of scotland £10 note refused in Asda once, as Micheal Macentyre said ''you give it to them and it's like you've handed them a dead baby.'' They refused point blank to take it.
I used to work in retail, never refused one but always double checked to make sure it wasn't a forgery.
And why is that? It simply requires giving two (£20) notes in change. Hardly a complex transaction. Particularly since the woman had hundreds of pounds in her till.
One chain has a policy of no more than £100 in notes in the till. Cashier chuffs a bunch of notes into the cache, then next 2 customers pay by card, and want cashback. That then wipes that tills notes, to maybe £10 or £20. So I can understand that sometimes a cashier will not have enough notes in their till to give change for £50 or pay out a lottery win.
All Lottery outlets are supposed to be able to pay up to £100 in cash prizes. Between £100 and £500 you can ask them if will award that amount - probably from actual lotto kiosks and big superstores.
Even better if you hand them an Ulster note!
Do you not think it takes the piss a little, overpaying by £40 in a smaller shop? Like those who get on buses and pay the £1.30 fair with a £20 note.
As I said before, ability to give change wasn't the problem it was attitudinal; the perverse pleasure some people get from being deliberately unhelpful. I'm sure if I went back to the same shop on another day with a similar note and asked another member of staff, there'd be no problem with breaking a fifty.
How do you know how much, in notes, she had in her till?
It's less about having to give £40 out in change and more to do with the fact they will have one note they won't realistically be able to use for change.
I bank them, I would never dream of trying to use them in the corner shop. It's just looking for conflict isn't it.
Newsagents are not banks with never ending money. They may have banked the money by then (early evening is prime time for robberies). She might have put the money in a safe and does not have access to open it (you know those flap down one way things). They might have made a large payout on the lottery depleting their till money, or they might have paid out on western union or other items they do. They might even have taken the cash to go to cash and carry.
There are many reasons why a shop may not have the money. We will always change £50 notes if we can because obviously 50's are easier to bank - you can bank a lot of money without having to carry a big wadge.
This is a little strange. A retailer will not know until it is scanned how much the payout value is worth. The retailer has a maximum amount set into their terminal which they are willing to pay - ours is set at £100 but we can override it if we have the cash. Anything under £100 will automatically accept the ticket and print a receipt for the payout. I find it odd that a retailer would have a maximum limit set at under £40 although it is possible. Did she try and scan the ticket?
It's 2 £20 notes, I imagine shops must take alot of them. Hardly handing out a load of pound coins and silver.
Personally I bank them though, had one customer pay me £1000 in £50 notes.