Paying for full tank of petrol in pennies

sabz3008

I just realised it's not a UK clip *Doh* ...But here's the link anyway...Should be the same here! Pennies rock!

sabz3008

tom717 wrote: »

What is and what isn't legal tender is largely irrelevant anyway, as legal tender only refers to payment of debts. If you are buying something it is entirely up to the retailer whether they accept your money.

You have an excellent point there. You're right, it only does say 'legal tender to cover debts'....So effectively, if they don't accept my pennies, they will have to take me to court who can decide what to do... Then it entirely depends on the judge whether he has a GSOH and believes in penny power too :rotfl:

tomwakefield

tom717 wrote: »

What is and what isn't legal tender is largely irrelevant anyway, as legal tender only refers to payment of debts. If you are buying something it is entirely up to the retailer whether they accept your money

Petrol is different to purchasing other products in that, with other things, the seller can refuse to provide the product/service if they don't like the way payment is presented. However, with petrol, you pay after putting the fuel in your car, so there is no way to refuse to sell the product if they then decide to offer 2000 1p coins in payment

sabz3008

Guys, I don't have the £63...But I've dug up 1350 pennies...And it's a LOT of copper here! ... I'm about to pay my local Tesco Express fuel station a visit. I'll let you know how it goes

sabz3008

They ruined my fun and used a penny counter and weighed the coins and accepted every penny!! , and even gave me 9p change

Jakg

Legal tender applies to the settlement of debt - they would be well within their rights to take the minimum required and ask for another form of payment for the rest.

In reality, I'd probably count it though. Certainly once I explained that there was 6 thousand coins to count, and took 5 minutes to count the first 100, I think the customer might change their mind...

The best way to get "rid" of change imo is the self-service tills as Tesco.

sabz3008 wrote: »

I saw many YouTube videos which have people walking in to pay their parking ticket using coppers lol...In one news report, the police was called when an old guy was trying to pay his clamp release charge...police sided with the guy that got clamped, the clamping company HAD TO accept all the copper...

Just because the police "sided with" someone doesn't mean they legally have to accept the money.

The police enforce the law, they don't create it.

tom717 wrote: »

What is and what isn't legal tender is largely irrelevant anyway, as legal tender only refers to payment of debts. If you are buying something it is entirely up to the retailer whether they accept your money.

If you get the goods first, then pay, it's debts. They aren't going to suck the fuel back out of your car, are they?

You almost getting the fuel now, but paying in 5 minutes

tomwakefield wrote: »

...However, with petrol, you pay after putting the fuel in your car, so there is no way to refuse to sell the product if they then decide to offer 2000 1p coins in payment

again, settlement of debt (i.e. the £63 you owe them for the fuel) uses legal tender. They don't have to (but probably will) accept any more than 20p in coppers.

goodgirl80

I sometimes take them to Tesco and use the self service checkout or use the machine at the bank to pay in to my account

Money_User

sabz3008 wrote: »

They ruined my fun and used a penny counter and weighed the coins and accepted every penny!! , and even gave me 9p change

Capitalism isn't the problem. Bad customer service is

Op's sig. Coming from someone who's actually stated they're going to try and pay for petrol worth 1350 pennies.

Op your sig is self inflicted.

Op, capitalism isn't the problem, you are!!!!!

Mark_Hewitt

sabz3008 wrote: »

They ruined my fun and used a penny counter and weighed the coins and accepted every penny!! , and even gave me 9p change

Cool! Now you know another place to get rid of your loose change!

Equaliser123

sabz3008 wrote: »

They ruined my fun and used a penny counter and weighed the coins and accepted every penny!! , and even gave me 9p change

And probably think you are a wierdo for evermore.