Warning to all cashiers etc

chuckley

why is it a scam he was using a £50 Scottish note?

Scottish notes are legal tender in England. Furthermore these cashiers clearly haven't been trained properly, but they never are.

Your assumptions of this man are disgusting. What did you do? Follow him into Iceland?

balletshoes

chuckley wrote: »

why is it a scam he was using a £50 Scottish note?

Scottish notes are legal tender in England.
Furthermore these cashiers clearly haven't been trained properly, but they never are.

Your assumptions of this man are disgusting. What did you do? Follow him into Iceland?

bit of a sweeping generalisation there, is it not? As I said before, I've broken £50 notes in supermarkets before, never had one refused, often a manager comes over to the till, but I have no problem with that.

barmonkey

For 13 years I worked in a pub which was part of a fairly large chain. The policy was, no £50 notes would be accepted and neither would Scottsh notes.

boo_star

hollydays wrote: »

Here's an actual scam known as " ringing the changes".
If ever you witness this , someone asking for change from staff then using distraction techniques, causing confusion to staff, to slide off and pocket bank notes, this is a well known deception .It's usually practiced on staff who are on their own more likely when other customers aren't about. eg
http://www.cornishguardian.co.uk/Pair-shops-ringing-changes-scam/story-20797691-detail/story.html

Another on is enquiring about notes with a particular Letter prefix , again it's a ploy to get hold of notes and well known .

That's why you hold the note (or place it in eye view) until you dispense change.

If they complain? "We'll take your details and if the tills are up we'll refund you."

hollydays

boo_star wrote: »

That's why you hold the note (or place it in eye view) until you dispense change.

If they complain? "We'll take your details and if the tills are up we'll refund you."

That would make no difference if you keep the note in your sight as that's not how ringing the changes works.

antrobus

chuckley wrote: »

...Scottish notes are legal tender in England....

No, they aren't. They are not even legal tender in Scotland. But then, the term 'legal tender' does not have that much of a practical application. Nevertheless, retailers are free to accept or reject banknotes as they see fit.

chuckley wrote: »

...Furthermore these cashiers clearly haven't been trained properly, but they never are....

Depends on what you think cashiers should be trained to do. I'd guess that most retailers want their cashiers to reject any note they aren't convinced is genuine.

Edwood_Woodwood

NBLondon wrote: »

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 :-)
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To stir it up further...

Shops, or anybody for that matter, are not obliged to give change.

For eg, Should I buy something for £5 but give a £20 note for it then I simply cannot demand the £15 as change.

Unlikely to happen in a shop but it does actually happen, usually transport, like buses and vending machines.

zaxdog

barmonkey wrote: »

For 13 years I worked in a pub which was part of a fairly large chain. The policy was, no £50 notes would be accepted and neither would Scottsh notes.

Food retailer at a festival tried that one on me and my response of "Awww thanks for the free lunch and since I've offered you money that you don't want to take that is what I assume this is" had him suddenly reversing his "policy" :rotfl:

barmonkey

zaxdog wrote: »

Food retailer at a festival tried that one on me and my response of "Awww thanks for the free lunch and since I've offered you money that you don't want to take that is what I assume this is" had him suddenly reversing his "policy" :rotfl:

We had big signs up explaining it, and it was never an issue all the time I was there.

chuckley

antrobus wrote: »

No, they aren't. They are not even legal tender in Scotland. But then, the term 'legal tender' does not have that much of a practical application. Nevertheless, retailers are free to accept or reject banknotes as they see fit.

yes they are legal. no reason not to use them. it's not fake currency

Depends on what you think cashiers should be trained to do. I'd guess that most retailers want their cashiers to reject any note they aren't convinced is genuine.

if they were trained properly they would know of other notes within the same country!

simply saying 'NO' because you can't read/see it's Scottish means your employer hasn't trained you on money, whether real or fake.