Alleged fake note

daytona0

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unholyangel

Did he say why he thought it was fake?

daytona0

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elsien

It's your problem if you were planning to continue being a regular customer.

daytona0

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hollydays

I think I'd rather have had it out with him there and then, rather than walk off. But hindsight is a great thing.
I'd be concerned in case he reports this to the police.
Do you know how reputable they are in general?
Don't think he he has a leg to stand on if he doesn't check the note at the time, though he may have cctv to back this up.
I'd have been suspicious too.

pinkshoes

Shops check notes BEFORE putting them in the till then handing out change.

Something sounds odd here.

Did he pick you perhaps as a sucker that he could palm a fake £20 off on that he had accidentally accepted earlier?

i would have probably waited then insist the police came and checked the note for your finger prints.

Marktheshark

This is a very common way forged money gets in to circulation.
By people working on tills palming real notes and handing customers back forged notes in change or claiming them to be fake.

I would not have it as well, check the notes before the sale and giving change out is basic shop practice, anything else is extremely dodgy.

dj1471

Every single time I've seen a note checked they do it immediately upon you handing it over, in front of you, before it goes in the till and long before any change is given.

If your note was fake then you still owe them the £20, but given the circumstances you describe I think it's unlikely they could prove that you paid with the note in question.

150940

daytona0 wrote: »

Possible! He's short changed me once or twice in the past and I've shrugged it off.



Yea, I was going to call the police in fairness but realised that the £20 was from the bookies and that is one of the worst places for fake notes.

Thankfully didn't handle the note which he alleged was fake. So if he has switched the note then it won't have my fingerprints on it.

Unless the shopkeeper has the ability to lift fingerprints it will never happen.

daytona0 wrote: »

Would that, in essence, mean that the bookmakers still owe me £20 too? If, of course, the note was fake...

Well not really as you've had your £20.

hollydays

If he's short changed you before, I think your first instinct was right . He could passing out any number of forgeries . Or he might have sucessfully confiscated notes from other people, with this ruse.