Warning to all cashiers etc

bluenoseam

SailorSam wrote: »

When i was on the Cabs i hated people wanting to pay in Scottish notes, whatever the denomination, There are so many different banks that seem to ,issue, and in different colours, you never knew what you getting offered.

Three of them (RBS, BoS, Clydesdale) & while they may have many series of notes changing them far more often than their stuffy counterparts in London they're not all that difficult. Only time I have any issue with them is when they quietly change series on you & you get a "fresh" one, screws with you a bit but you follow the rule of thumb & get on with it. Doesn't stop me after the years of watching cashiers having some sort of stroke behind a till when you hand them one seeking out every BoE note I can find for a week before hand.

That being said I did laugh a little during the summer when the cashier at Starbucks in Heathrow was disappointed that I didn't have a "plastic fiver". She'd heard about them & was desperate to see one in person!

NBLondon

Just to stir it up a bit....


If the Asda in question is in England or Wales - it is purely at their discretion whether to accept Scottish or N Irish notes. Whether this is a corporate decision or local manager's discretion is up to Asda.


To be even more awkward - a Scottish business is also in the same position - but if any actually decided to insist on Bank of England notes only they would probably lose a lot of custom :-)


I have come back from trips North of the Wall with Scottish notes and found that they are rarely questioned in Central London but sometimes suspected by suburban corner shops. I did once pop into a branch of RBS with a few BoS notes and they swapped them without hesitation.

Edwood_Woodwood

hollydays wrote: »

I assume it's someone pays with a forged note, buys something low value in order to launder the money, get rid of the forgery , and get kosher notes n return. It's just what people who use forged notes do!!
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Surely one wouldn't go to large stores then, like Asda & Iceland, as they have machines to check the notes. Can't even use a £50 note in Asda self serve machines.

Edwood_Woodwood

torbrex wrote: »

The most common forgeries are the 10 and 20 English pound notes, they have even been known to have been issued by cash machines

I thought it was actually £1 coins?

Something like 10% in circulation are forgeries I seem to remember from an article on Jeremy Vine radio show a couple of years ago.

Shrimply

[Deleted User] wrote:

Apparently it's a common scam,

so it's a scam to present a Scottish £50 note?

Have you not got more important things in life to get offended over? Despite being a proud Scot it didn't even cross my mind there was anything remotely racist in the original post.

The scam was using a large note for a small purchase, the fact the note was Scottish added to the cashiers uncertainty because they are not seen as often.

Given that an inanimate object can not have a race, and therefore cannot be discriminated against based on race nor were any comments made about the nationality of the person being served, or indeed the nationality of anybody in the story. How exactly is it in anyway racist?

JJG

The crazy thing is Scottish notes aren't legal tender. Not even in Scotland.

Shrimply

JJG wrote: »

The crazy thing is Scottish notes aren't legal tender. Not even in Scotland.

Which has got nothing to do with whether or not they can be used to pay for goods. Scottish notes are legal currency which is all that really matters here.

engineer_amy

reminds me of this story recently http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2989992/Would-accept-100-Euro-note-One-sandwich-shop-owner-did-s-toy-one-Early-Learning-Centre.html

Shrimply

engineer_amy wrote: »

reminds me of this story recently http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2989992/Would-accept-100-Euro-note-One-sandwich-shop-owner-did-s-toy-one-Early-Learning-Centre.html

Little bit ageist don't you think

Johnnytwostep

Shrimply wrote: »

Have you not got more important things in life to get offended over? Despite being a proud Scot it didn't even cross my mind there was anything remotely racist in the original post.

The scam was using a large note for a small purchase, the fact the note was Scottish added to the cashiers uncertainty because they are not seen as often.

Given that an inanimate object can not have a race, and therefore cannot be discriminated against based on race nor were any comments made about the nationality of the person being served, or indeed the nationality of anybody in the story. How exactly is it in anyway racist?

because some people look for any opportunity, however tenuous, to get offended