Selling car privately.... am I being OTT?

bowlhead99

Minrich wrote: »

£100 notes are available in Scotland .

not legal tender then

Stevie_Palimo

Minrich wrote: »

£100 notes are available in Scotland .

Same as Northern Ireland to but in most cases easy to spend even Tesco's a few times without issues and local small shops that know you well enough.

ToriP

My buyer paid me £13k in cash in my bank. I said I wasn't comfortable carrying that amount round and it was in both our interests for us to do it in my bank. I handed the cash to cashier who put it through her counting machine which is quick and would show up fakes I imagine. Deal done and buyer was happy to oblige.

arcon5

£13k... that's not your average every day car sale though.

Stevie_Palimo

ToriP wrote: »

My buyer paid me £13k in cash in my bank. I said I wasn't comfortable carrying that amount round and it was in both our interests for us to do it in my bank. I handed the cash to cashier who put it through her counting machine which is quick and would show up fakes I imagine. Deal done and buyer was happy to oblige.

Nope it only counts notes so if the bank teller had of taking these in and any were dodgy they would have been deducted from your account.

ToriP

I just assumed once they had them they were accepted. So all incoming cash to the cashier is kept separately for checking later on?

colino

Some very quaint banking machines. If anything, my nearest big banks machine is over sensitive and it neatly piles the ones it either, "misreads" or thinks are fake, into a nice little drawer that needs a key to open up again.
What's to stop a bank accepting your cash and then claiming later it was counterfeit?

arcon5

Stevie_Palimo wrote: »

Nope it only counts notes so if the bank teller had of taking these in and any were dodgy they would have been deducted from your account.

Oh please, the teller counts the money and puts the different value notes in the correct slot in their draw - with hundreds of more notes! They couldn't possibly identify without any doubt which customer gave them which note.

londonTiger

Stevie_Palimo wrote: »

Nope it only counts notes so if the bank teller had of taking these in and any were dodgy they would have been deducted from your account.

for handling that sort of money you might as well buy a money tester, they cost about £30 each.

d123

Stevie_Palimo wrote: »

Nope it only counts notes so if the bank teller had of taking these in and any were dodgy they would have been deducted from your account.

:rotfl::rotfl:

Where do you get your strange ideas from?