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

amiehall

What a fuss about nothing.... I feel sorry for the poor retail staff. I work as a retail manager and, while I have seen Irish notes before and wouldn't make a fool of myself wondering whether it was actually money or not, I have worked for more than one company that has a policy of refusing Irish notes.

I currently have some discretion and will accept more or less anything whether it's Irish, Scottish or whatever. But if you're told not to accept something, you can't accept it. It's unfair to assume that all staff refusals of Irish notes are ignorance. Many companies request that staff do not accept Irish notes.

I suggest you take your notes to your bank and swap them then get on with your life....

suki1964

Here it works the other way around as well.

We live in NI

Hubby works in England

If he gets paid in to Santandar - not a problem

Gets his wages paid into the Northern Bank and they see it as a foreign transaction and we get charged

amiehall

adouglasmhor wrote: »

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.

Yes we're asked to separate them. We're also charged extra for banking them. I've never heard of them not being accepted by a bank though....

suki1964

amiehall wrote: »

What a fuss about nothing.... I feel sorry for the poor retail staff. I work as a retail manager and, while I have seen Irish notes before and wouldn't make a fool of myself wondering whether it was actually money or not, I have worked for more than one company that has a policy of refusing Irish notes.

I currently have some discretion and will accept more or less anything whether it's Irish, Scottish or whatever. But if you're told not to accept something, you can't accept it. It's unfair to assume that all staff refusals of Irish notes are ignorance. Many companies request that staff do not accept Irish notes.

I suggest you take your notes to your bank and swap them then get on with your life....

As a retail manager I hope you know that Irish note are Euros and that Northern Ireland Notes are Stirling

adouglasmhor

MaccaHallam wrote: »

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?

It's up to the shops same as Scots and NI money, you can exchange channel islands pounds 1 for 1 at most main banks, I think you only get 98p for Falkland islands and Gibraltar ones though.

MaccaHallam

suki1964 wrote: »

As a retail manager I hope you know that Irish note are Euros and that Northern Ireland Notes are Stirling

Bank of Ireland produce Sterling notes for Northern Ireland. Confusing!

amiehall

suki1964 wrote: »

As a retail manager I hope you know that Irish note are Euros and that Northern Ireland Notes are Stirling

Goodness me yes my sincere apologies... I clearly mean Northern Irish notes issued by the Bank of Ireland. Is that not obvious? :rotfl:

suki1964

amiehall wrote: »

Goodness me yes my sincere apologies... I clearly mean Northern Irish notes issued by the Bank of Ireland. Is that not obvious? :rotfl:

Not when you call them Irish - no

Also we have notes issued by the Ulster Bank and the Northern Bank - not just Bank of Ireland

chattychappy

adouglasmhor wrote: »

I have never heard such balls

adouglasmhor wrote: »

I guess you set a low standard for your staff and failed to achieve it, probably why yu are not their any more

adouglasmhor wrote: »

They are and you are showing your ignorance again
...
At least you got one thing right.

yeah, right.

amiehall

suki1964 wrote: »

Not when you call them Irish - no

Also we have notes issued by the Ulster Bank and the Northern Bank - not just Bank of Ireland

I'm not actually trying to start some kind of civil war although I'm sure someone might want to.

I'm very sorry if you were confused, you seem nicely informed on Northern Irish issuing banks though so that seems unlikely. I was considering editing my post to mention Ulster Bank but decided it seemed petty. You seem insistent on starting a petty argument though so....

Do you have a point relevant to the discussion? Now that we've clarified that I wasn't talking about Euros