£50 notes not legal tender in retail stores?
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I went to get my wife a card and gift box from The Card Factory in Redditch today, and when offering the cashier a £50 note (all I had on me), she said "Sorry, we don't accept £50 notes - store rules". I was quite taken aback by this, and explained that the note was legal tender, and wern't they obliged to accept it. Seems not - girl got stroppy and said if I wanted to take it further, I'd have to speak to the manager! So I took my Visa card out - but was told I couldn't use that either, as the goods I wanted (and failed) to purchase just under £5!
So, I left and bought what I needed to from Clinton Cards instead. (Wasn't going to create a huge fuss for the sake of a card and wrapping)
I know a £50 note is overkill for a fiver's shopping, but I was still quite angry that my money wasn't deemd legal tender! (After spending a few years in Italy, we were used to shoppers handing over 100 and even 500 Euro notes for a bag of pasta!
So, I left and bought what I needed to from Clinton Cards instead. (Wasn't going to create a huge fuss for the sake of a card and wrapping)
I know a £50 note is overkill for a fiver's shopping, but I was still quite angry that my money wasn't deemd legal tender! (After spending a few years in Italy, we were used to shoppers handing over 100 and even 500 Euro notes for a bag of pasta!
You should try spending Scottish notes in England!
Whether it's legal or not, because I commute of a weekend, I'm regularly stared at like I've got two heads.
I suspect it's for the same reason though, generally the larger notes are forged as most people aren''t familiar with them so it's just the store protecting themselves. There were a lot of Scottish notes forged a while ago and noone would accept them south of the border.
Whether it's legal or not, because I commute of a weekend, I'm regularly stared at like I've got two heads.
I suspect it's for the same reason though, generally the larger notes are forged as most people aren''t familiar with them so it's just the store protecting themselves. There were a lot of Scottish notes forged a while ago and noone would accept them south of the border.
We are a small retail business. We will accept £50 notes. We will even take payment by card for transactions for two or three pounds if it is the only way a customer can pay. Although in that instance we would explain that the floor limit is £5
We also accept Scottish notes
We also accept Scottish notes
Edited by jas xjr on Monday 11th October 17:58
Shaw Tarse said:
I can understand the reluctance to take a £50 note, but with the checks, "raised print" water marks & "wet ink" it should be OK
We used to take them in the club I worked in, just had to give the colour a rub and the watermark, I sometimes get £50s as rent payment and usually spend them in Tescos as they take them.You do get looked at weirdly though, as the area isn't the nicest where Tescos is and they're probably used to fakes.
A shop doesn't have to accept anything. You could proffer a bag of pound coins to buy a car and the garage could quite legally refuse the sale, despite pound coins being legal tender to any amount (other coins have limits - coppers are only up to 20p I believe).
Edited by Famous Graham on Monday 11th October 18:01
I stopped for a cuppa at a roadside cafe and the guy I was with offered £50 note for payment. You'd think by the reaction of the owner we'd offered him nude pictures of boys as payment!
"f
k off mate, you takin the fkin piss?"
"No, are you?"
We walked off with our coffee's steaming away on the counter.
Nob.
"f
k off mate, you takin the fkin piss?""No, are you?"
We walked off with our coffee's steaming away on the counter.
Nob.
Big Rod said:
You should try spending Scottish notes in England!
Whether it's legal or not, because I commute of a weekend, I'm regularly stared at like I've got two heads.
I suspect it's for the same reason though, generally the larger notes are forged as most people aren''t familiar with them so it's just the store protecting themselves. There were a lot of Scottish notes forged a while ago and noone would accept them south of the border.
Never, ever had a problem with spending scottish notes in england (or vice versa). Then again, I only live about 40 miles south of the border.Whether it's legal or not, because I commute of a weekend, I'm regularly stared at like I've got two heads.
I suspect it's for the same reason though, generally the larger notes are forged as most people aren''t familiar with them so it's just the store protecting themselves. There were a lot of Scottish notes forged a while ago and noone would accept them south of the border.
GTIR said:
I stopped for a cuppa at a roadside cafe and the guy I was with offered £50 note for payment. You'd think by the reaction of the owner we'd offered him nude pictures of boys as payment!
"fk off mate, you takin the fkin piss?"
"No, are you?"
We walked off with our coffee's steaming away on the counter.
Nob.
You were taking the piss. HTH."f
k off mate, you takin the fkin piss?""No, are you?"
We walked off with our coffee's steaming away on the counter.
Nob.
It's like anything slightly abnormal these days. It just smacks of terrorism.
Ten years time, and you'll only be able to spend pound coins. They'll give you change, if they've got it, but you won't be able to spend it. You'll have to take it back to the bank, to change into pound coins.
Because the shopkeepers won't accept change, they'll not then be able to accept pound coins, unless you're happy to let them have the change.
IIRC, there are more fake pound coins than £50's. Perhaps not 50 x though.
Ten years time, and you'll only be able to spend pound coins. They'll give you change, if they've got it, but you won't be able to spend it. You'll have to take it back to the bank, to change into pound coins.
Because the shopkeepers won't accept change, they'll not then be able to accept pound coins, unless you're happy to let them have the change.
IIRC, there are more fake pound coins than £50's. Perhaps not 50 x though.
Plotloss said:
Engineer1 said:
£50 note to pay for a small amount screams scam, as it is a basic way of laundering iffy notes, after all all the change you get must be good, the £50 you give might not be.
What if you've only got fifties?How would you ever get change?
carreauchompeur said:
GTIR said:
I stopped for a cuppa at a roadside cafe and the guy I was with offered £50 note for payment. You'd think by the reaction of the owner we'd offered him nude pictures of boys as payment!
"fk off mate, you takin the fkin piss?"
"No, are you?"
We walked off with our coffee's steaming away on the counter.
Nob.
You were taking the piss. HTH."f
k off mate, you takin the fkin piss?""No, are you?"
We walked off with our coffee's steaming away on the counter.
Nob.
He was a miserable sod.
dilbert said:
It's like anything slightly abnormal these days. It just smacks of terrorism.
Ten years time, and you'll only be able to spend pound coins. They'll give you change, if they've got it, but you won't be able to spend it. You'll have to take it back to the bank, to change into pound coins.
Because the shopkeepers won't accept change, they'll not then be able to accept pound coins, unless you're happy to let them have the change.
IIRC, there are more fake pound coins than £50's. Perhaps not 50 x though.
It's not that, it's the size of the hit on the shop. If you pass them 5 dodgy pound coins they've lost 5 pounds. They take a bad 50, and they've taken an immediate £50 hit.Ten years time, and you'll only be able to spend pound coins. They'll give you change, if they've got it, but you won't be able to spend it. You'll have to take it back to the bank, to change into pound coins.
Because the shopkeepers won't accept change, they'll not then be able to accept pound coins, unless you're happy to let them have the change.
IIRC, there are more fake pound coins than £50's. Perhaps not 50 x though.
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