I'm paying in sterling, so what's wrong with my cash?

pawlala

Anyone tried Northern Irish notes in a self-service machine at the supermarket?

dukesy_2

These ARE legal tender in UK (they are sterling)..

They make Scottish notes look easy to spend !

Usually just save them for the next trip, its easier !!!

adouglasmhor

Not legal tender but that is a specific legal term.

chattychappy

adouglasmhor wrote: »

It's acceptable in law, but not reasonable, ignorance is no excuse.

What has ignorance got to do with it - except the ignorance of consumers who think they've got rights they haven't. Shops choosing not to accept BoI notes is a decision they are free to make - in accordance with the law, as you say. Why should a busy cashier be expected to recognise and verify as legitimate a banknote of a type they have never seen before and might never see again? Why should a shop have to train cashiers to recognise all the notes of the UK on the off-chance some bloke might one day produce a NI banknote?

And if they do accept them, can they be returned to another customer in change? Most customers wouldn't accept them.

If you take NI notes to England, you take your chances.

adouglasmhor wrote: »

They are accepted tender in the whole of the UK.

Clearly they are not "accepted tender in the whole of the UK" - else this thread wouldn't have been started.

dukesy wrote: »

These ARE legal tender in UK (they are sterling)..

They are NOT legal tender in England, see http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/Pages/about/faqs.aspx#16. But legal tender is not the issue as we are not talking about payment of a debt.

MaccaHallam

In some shops the banks they bank with refuse to take S&I notes off them so if you hand over a £10 scottish note for example it is dead money to them, can't give it out to the public, can't give it to the bank. So why should they accept it if it is worthless to them?

adouglasmhor

MaccaHallam wrote: »

In some shops the banks they bank with refuse to take S&I notes off them so if you hand over a £10 scottish note for example it is dead money to them, can't give it out to the public, can't give it to the bank. So why should they accept it if it is worthless to them?

I have never heard such balls, no bank has a policy of refusing Scottish notes. Some banks ask you to separate them out from BoE notes.

adouglasmhor

chattychappy wrote: »

What has ignorance got to do with iteverything, do you know what ignorance means? .Lack of knowledge - except the ignorance of consumers who think they've got rights they haven't. Shops choosing not to accept BoI notes is a decision they are free to make - in accordance with the law, as you say. Why should a busy cashier be expected to recognise and verify as legitimate a banknote of a type they have never seen before and might never see again? Why should a shop have to train cashiers to recognise all the notes of the UK on the off-chance some bloke might one day produce a NI banknote?
I guess you set a low standard for your staff and failed to achieve it, probably why yu are not their any more



Clearly they are not "accepted tender in the whole of the UK" - else this thread wouldn't have been started.They are and you are showing your ignorance again - accepted does not mean they have to be accepted by a trader but it does mean there is no law against using them.



They are NOT legal tender in England, see http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/Pages/about/faqs.aspx#16. But legal tender is not the issue as we are not talking about payment of a debt.

At least you got one thing right.

MaccaHallam

Scottish note was possibly a bad example but the company I work for can't take Jersey, Guernsey notes as it gets refused and sent back if we do take it. Just as much sterling as a scottish note?

I'd take all notes if it was my decision. A lot of the time it's people being awkward about it.

adouglasmhor

MaccaHallam wrote: »

Scottish note was possibly a bad example but the company I work for can't take Jersey, Guernsey notes as it gets refused and sent back if we do take it. Just as much sterling as a scottish note?

I'd take all notes if it was my decision. A lot of the time it's people being awkward about it.

Channel Islands are not part of the UK but a separate Dominion, just like Canada - would you take Canadian dollars, Aussie money?

MaccaHallam

adouglasmhor wrote: »

Channel Islands are not part of the UK but a separate Dominion, just like Canada - would you take Canadian dollars, Aussie money?

If I could exchange the Canadian and Aussie Dollars and then sell them onto a bank for Sterling then yeah I would. The company I work for wouldn't. I believed you could use Jersey money etc in UK shops?