Where to buy: UV Note Checker

chigley · 26 Sep 2011 at 21:42

Okay so I need to get hold of one of these by Wednesday at the latest, which rules out most delivery options.

Anyone got any idea where I could get hold of a battery-powered UV bank checker on the high street?

Cheers

The_Abyss · 26 Sep 2011 at 21:44

******.

The_Abyss · 26 Sep 2011 at 21:45

Sorry - that is obviously a competitor.

You should walk down the High St. ** competitor hint removed **

chigley · 26 Sep 2011 at 21:46

The_Abyss said:
******.

Assuming this is supposed to read "The Electronics Specialist", I already looked on their site and they only have some sort of UV LED kit, not a pre-assembled battery-powered device.

Cheers

EDIT: Just had another look on their site and found a few things that'd work, clearly didn't look hard enough! Cheers

xarr · 26 Sep 2011 at 21:48

http://www.shopfittingsshop.com/pro...at&strKeywords=&strSearchCriteria=&PT_ID=1046

They have a shop in London (Whitechapel)

Shopfittings Direct Ltd
219-225 Commercial Road
London
E1 2BT

Lots of others, just Google London shop fitters (or Bolton?)

The_Abyss · 26 Sep 2011 at 21:49

Yeah - they have a basic keylight I think which should do the trick.

There's another decent test - take it from someone who worked behind the counter of a building society for a while.

If you rub the note pretty hard (not rapidly, just a couple of hard pressed strokes) on a piece of white paper, a genuine note will release a little smudge of ink. More often than not, a fake will not.

chigley · 26 Sep 2011 at 21:52

The_Abyss said:
Yeah - they have a basic keylight I think which should do the trick.

There's another decent test - take it from someone who worked behind the counter of a building society for a while.

If you rub the note pretty hard (not rapidly, just a couple of hard pressed strokes) on a piece of white paper, a genuine note will release a little smudge of ink. More often than not, a fake will not.

Cheers for this. I'll be needing to test 50+ notes though, so I figured UV would be a quicker solution!

RomanNose · 26 Sep 2011 at 21:58

Drug dealer?

franco_22 · 26 Sep 2011 at 22:03

chaosdestro0 said:
Drug dealer?

genuinely lol

Rameses · 26 Sep 2011 at 22:04

chaosdestro0 said:
Drug dealer?

dammit I was gonna say that!

B&W · 26 Sep 2011 at 23:32

a lot of fake notes still show UV lights on them, although ive noticed they usually display them in green. Genuine notes come up red and green or if extremely faded then just light red.

Best way to check is the hologram, very hard to fake.

SCMRubix · 27 Sep 2011 at 00:42

If you know someone who works in a supermarket, see if you can get them to take one from the tills.

Or if you're feeling more honest, ask one of the managers if you can buy one.

You'll never know if you never ask