Advice re refusal of a £50 note

patty65

That doesn't make much sense as a reason for nor accepting fifties You may start with a £25 float...how long would it be before you had £100 in the till? 20 mins perhaps?

yeh right £100 in a quids in shop. somedays we were lucky to take in £50. no wonder it went bust

Patrick

patty65

Also all this talk about what is and what is not legal tender is a load of rubbish. Shops can take or refuse whatever they want in exchange for their goods.

Why, they even take pieces of paper that people write on the amount they want to pay and sign it and if the retailer agrees that is what they want paid they give the customer what they want.

Except some supermarkets of course.

I am Scottish and live in Scotland and years ago I went on holiday in England with my wife and children. We went to an ice cream van and bought ice cream cones. So ice cream seller handed the cones down one by one and the children started eating them. Time came to pay and I handed over a SCOTTISH £5 note.

I can't take that screamed the ice cream seller so I said OK we will hand back the ice cream. The other ice cream seller asked what was wrong and after hearing the ice cream seller explain said don't be stupid if we don't take any SCOTTISH £5 notes we will not sell any ice cream as it was the Glasgow fair fortnight and most of the people there were from Scotland.

I now make a point of only offering SCOTTISH notes when I am in England and if they don't take them I hand the stuff back and walk out the shop. Their loss.

Patrick

dfh

No wonder the UK is in such a state with people making so much fuss out of a trivial matter.

InaPickle

mum2one wrote: »

I remember about 10 yrs ago I was in Selfridges on Oxford Street, with my dad, and I'd spent under a fiver and handed a £20 note, she did the feel of the note,hold it up to the light, she was really snooty, so when she handed me the change, £10 and £5 note, I held them up and felt them, she was so put out, and said "and what do you think your doing", so I said while if its good enough for you, its good enough for me, I'm just making sure there not fake"..... it was a classic 10/10 moment.

GENIUS! I'm going to add that one to my repetoire! :cool:

Andy_L

Print_Screen wrote: »

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.

I've managed ita few times but I always go in with the expectation that they won't take them.

Mark_Hewitt

Indeed shops can do anything they like, they just can't refuse to serve you based on race, religion etc, but they can refuse to accept 20p coins if your name is Richard and it's the second Tuesday of the month, if they so desire.

Legal tender is a very specific definition. In that if you offer to replay a debt using legal tender and that repayment is refused they cannot then sue you for failure to pay. Even then it's only coins. I believe that the only coin that is legal tender in unlimited quantities is the £1 coin.

biscit

patty65 wrote: »

Also all this talk about what is and what is not legal tender is a load of rubbish. Shops can take or refuse whatever they want in exchange for their goods.

No and yes. I think people defining what is and isn't legal tender are making it clear that it is not the same thing as what is acceptable payment.

Scottish notes are not legal tender, but as you say, merchents should accept them, and certianly not act offended if asked to accept them like ice cream seller number 1. Legal tender has no relevance in that circumstance, but just because a concept is aesoteric, does not make it rubbish.

glider3560

biscit wrote: »

Scottish notes are not legal tender, but as you say, merchents should accept them, and certianly not act offended if asked to accept them like ice cream seller number 1.

I think a lot of businesses "down here" refuse Scottish notes on the basis of they don't know what to do with them. Perhaps they aren't sure whether their bank will accept them? Some people from "right down south" (where I'm from!) probably don't even know that Scottish notes even exist!

Unless I was going to the bank immediately, I would refuse a Scottish note if I were offered it as change in a shop. Too much hassle trying to get others shops to take it! Perhaps we should be thinking like this rather than just expecting the retailer to accept the note?

Mark_Hewitt

glider3560 wrote: »

Unless I was going to the bank immediately, I would refuse a Scottish note if I were offered it as change in a shop. Too much hassle trying to get others shops to take it! Perhaps we should be thinking like this rather than just expecting the retailer to accept the note?

When I used to work in a shop (Newcastle so not exactly south) we were told to accept Scottish notes, but put them in a seperate part of the till so that they aren't being given out in change. They also needed to be banked seperately, as obviously they couldn't go through the counting machines with BoE notes.

BeenieCat

Louisecharlotte wrote: »

Also, this thread reminds me of Michael McIntyre...I think you'll find pal, that's LEGAL TENDER :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

:rotfl::rotfl: I was about the post the exact same thing!!:rotfl::rotfl: