Nightclub bar refusing to give me change.

paddedjohn

CKhalvashi wrote: »

Pint in my local is £3.25.

JD and Coke in OH's place is £4.50, so I've noticed it will end with 0 or 5.

At the same time, there's no legal requirement for change, as already was mentioned.

CK

My pint has just gone up, its up 5p to £2.35........The North South divide does exist.

arcon5

paddedjohn wrote: »

The op was charged the correct price of £4.79, they chose to offer £5.00 as payment and received 20p in change. There is no legal requirement to give change.

No he didn't.
Op have £5 in good faith that the overpayment would be reimbursed.

Takeaway_Addict

Maybe you should take a bag of pennies which are £1 and then offer that in payment for your first drink along with whatever else is needed

Money-Saving-King

MidLifeCrisis wrote: »

Naughty I know, but if you know what your drink's going to cost you could always choose to pay in 1p pieces next time :rotfl:

or every time :beer:

Takeaway_Addict wrote: »

Maybe you should take a bag of pennies which are £1 and then offer that in payment for your first drink along with whatever else is needed

Actually you can't force them to. Over 20p in pennies isn't classed as legal tender with regards to payment.

They might accept it as payment if they wish but technically by law they don't have to.

All the info is here: http://www.royalmint.com/aboutus/policies-and-guidelines/legal-tender-guidelines

Takeaway_Addict

Money-Saving-King wrote: »

Actually you can't force them to. Over 20p in pennies isn't classed as legal tender with regards to payment.

They might accept it as payment if they wish but technically by law they don't have to.

All the info is here: http://www.royalmint.com/aboutus/policies-and-guidelines/legal-tender-guidelines

Yeah I know, then I would be pedantic and that 5 drink order I placed....one at a time please

Then prob give them some verbals as I get kicked out lol

Bollotom

Originally Posted by paddedjohn View Post
The op was charged the correct price of £4.79, they chose to offer £5.00 as payment and received 20p in change. There is no legal requirement to give change.

My bold. So I go into the pub and order a drink for me and the Missus. £5-24 in my local Wetherspoon's. So I give them a £50 note as I haven't any other money. Are you seriously suggesting that they could refuse to give me my change? Or even go into PC World and buy a flash drive for £10 and same note proffered and they can also refuse to give me change? I've worked bars and if I adopted that practice I could only imagine many painful hours in A and E. :cool:

nzmegs

I once saw a bus driver refuse to take a £1 worth of coppers from a woman because it would take too long to count. She was almost in tears because it was all the money she had. They spent longer arguing about than it would have taken to count it.

Money is money - no matter how much. if i didn't get my 1p I would be fuming. They have no right to decide what is important to you and what isn't. My daughter picks up 1p's off the street to save up in her piggy bank...

Takeaway_Addict

nzmegs wrote: »

I once saw a bus driver refuse to take a £1 worth of coppers from a woman because it would take too long to count. She was almost in tears because it was all the money she had. They spent longer arguing about than it would have taken to count it.

Money is money - no matter how much. if i didn't get my 1p I would be fuming. They have no right to decide what is important to you and what isn't. My daughter picks up 1p's off the street to save up in her piggy bank...

Did you not pay the £1? Would have saved even more time

tomwakefield

Bollotom wrote: »

Originally Posted by paddedjohn View Post
The op was charged the correct price of £4.79, they chose to offer £5.00 as payment and received 20p in change. There is no legal requirement to give change.

My bold. So I go into the pub and order a drink for me and the Missus. £5-24 in my local Wetherspoon's. So I give them a £50 note as I haven't any other money. Are you seriously suggesting that they could refuse to give me my change? Or even go into PC World and buy a flash drive for £10 and same note proffered and they can also refuse to give me change? I've worked bars and if I adopted that practice I could only imagine many painful hours in A and E. :cool:

Correct, though a business that operated like that for such large amounts would receive such negative press that they wouldn't survive.

This is what the Royal Mint says

In order to comply with the very strict rules governing an actual legal tender transaction it is necessary to offer the exact amount. No change can be demanded. Part of the service shops offer is to return change to customers who do not have the correct legal tender amount!

PasturesNew

bod1467 wrote: »

Our local bus service is the same - exact fare (or more) only - no change given.

That's annoying because if you're not a regular you might have no idea how much the right fare is at all.