Advice re refusal of a £50 note

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Already answered upthread

adouglasmhor

cagsy wrote: »

This is what makes it so ridiculous. I'm a regular customer and work a few doors down from the chemist, my personal details were on the prescription, I offered him my photo ID, the other staff recognised me and he'd already accepted my custom and had proceded to dispense the medication!!! I'm laughing about it all now but yesterday I was quite annoyed, however I remained calm and polite throughout the entire fiasco and resisted the temptation to burst out laughing when he was standing there with the note in the air.

I hope you scrupulously checked all the notes in your change with the same zeal in front of him. I mean he couldn't find offence with himself being subject to the same distrust as he gives to others could he?

I find some shop staff really get confused by this.

RadoJo

I think a lot of people here must be taking things too personally - a shop assistant checking a note they are given is no reflection on the person who has handed them the note, doesn't denote mistrust and isn't an accusation. If you are given a fake £50 by someone, the chances are it's a one-off and you will at least know where you got it from and have a chance to rectify the situation. A shop owner who ends up with a fake £50 probably has no record of who handed it to them and just ends up £50 down, and that's each time they get one.
In the same way that being asked to enter my PIN doesn't offend me, someone checking a note doesn't - they are safeguarding their company by taking reasonable precautions to ensure that they aren't taken advantage of. If you think of it like that, it makes the process seem a lot less accusatory.

adouglasmhor

RadoJo wrote: »

I think a lot of people here must be taking things too personally - a shop assistant checking a note they are given is no reflection on the person who has handed them the note, doesn't denote mistrust and isn't an accusation. If you are given a fake £50 by someone, the chances are it's a one-off and you will at least know where you got it from and have a chance to rectify the situation. A shop owner who ends up with a fake £50 probably has no record of who handed it to them and just ends up £50 down, and that's each time they get one.
In the same way that being asked to enter my PIN doesn't offend me, someone checking a note doesn't - they are safeguarding their company by taking reasonable precautions to ensure that they aren't taken advantage of. If you think of it like that, it makes the process seem a lot less accusatory.

Funnily enough I have had 2 fake tenners in my life, one from an employer in my pay and one from a shop assistant. No one forces shop staff to be indiscreet you can check without all that pallaver and if staff don't know what they are looking for why are they even looking. It's not going to have a picture of Boy George instead of the Queen or something is it.

Ste_C

If anyone wants to send me some £50 pound notes I promise I won't refuse them.

geordieracer

edgex wrote: »

a few points to clear up
both Scottish & NI notes are still legal tender

This point you are clearing up is wrong. Only English notes are legal tender in England and Wales. Scottish and NI notes ARE NOT legal tender 'down here'

It is a gesture of goodwill that people will accept these notes as payment for goods.

I hope that clears that up for you.

Print_Screen

Trying to get someone to accept NI notes would probably be even more of a nightmare than Scottish notes as they are even rarer in England.

Some people at least realise that Scottish notes exist but don't know that there is such a thing as NI money

Murdina

It might help if one point which has been alluded to is clarified.

Legal tender is what you can offer in settlement of a contract.

When you go into a shop and ask to buy an item legally you are making an "offer" to buy.
The shop accepts this offer when it takes your money (if it choses to) and only at that point does a contract exist.

So a shop can as indicated above pretty much refuse to sell anything to anyone if it so chooses, so long as it is not breaking any other laws meanwhile.

tapwater

cagsy wrote: »

Does anyone know where I stand legally on trying to pay with a fifty please?

I don't know about the legality but you can complain about the shop assistants attitude. They should have shown decorum.

Some places will refuse £50 notes because it uses up the change quickly. Even had a shop assistant moaning at me for using a £20 and it was using their change. It was all I had and no banks were open. I don't believe they should make a fuss about it as its not the customers problem that the change is depleting.

scullster

cagsy wrote: »

This is what makes it so ridiculous. I'm a regular customer and work a few doors down from the chemist, my personal details were on the prescription, I offered him my photo ID, the other staff recognised me and he'd already accepted my custom and had proceded to dispense the medication!!! I'm laughing about it all now but yesterday I was quite annoyed, however I remained calm and polite throughout the entire fiasco and resisted the temptation to burst out laughing when he was standing there with the note in the air.

Nice to see you're laughing about it now! Us consumers think we rule the retail world, whatever we say must go.......... nah!