A minor rant - Stupid shopkeepers
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I was perfectly polite, the girl said that they can't accept them, I just asked "why not?" and she called the manager over where he looked at them and went straight into his schpiel of "we can't accept scottish money". I started saying "Why not, they're perfectly legal" and I got interrupted with the reply I posted back up there in post number one.dirtydog said:
I didn't even bother to argue, there was no point, I just said that they'll need to put the stuff back on the shelf and walked out, walked home and went to a sensible shop.
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james.miller said:
yup, i work in tesco, ive only ever had 1 scottish note, and i was lucky that the duty manager was on the till next to me at the time. becuase i'd never seen one before and had no idea whether it was real or not!
i knew it was a scottish note from reading it, so i asked whether we took them and it was a quick "yup" and that was good for me.
If the shopkeeper didn't want to accept the note that's fine. Feek wanted to take his business elsewhere which is also fine. What isn't fine is a shopkeeper (who really should know better) coming out with a load of complete rubbish and trying to pass it off as fact.
I used to get asked by a lady in one of the small shops in town if it would be OK if I paid by cheque. She would accept other payment but for her it was easier and better for her if she was paid this way. As she asked politely I was happy to oblige, it didn't make any difference to me. I must admit I would rather give my custom to a polite shop owner than one who isn't (even if they don't care whether they have my custom).
I used to get asked by a lady in one of the small shops in town if it would be OK if I paid by cheque. She would accept other payment but for her it was easier and better for her if she was paid this way. As she asked politely I was happy to oblige, it didn't make any difference to me. I must admit I would rather give my custom to a polite shop owner than one who isn't (even if they don't care whether they have my custom).
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Now to find some welsh money 
AJUK said:Not going to happen anytime soon, if ever.
The only countries who now want to sign up are the poor ones holding out their begging bowls. Most of the rich countries in Europe want their old currencies back.
The Republic seems to be doing well enough out of the Euro.
My shop accepts anything with "Sterling" on it, provided it isn't fake. We used to refuse Scottish notes because of a high amount of forgeries at the time, but that seems to have died down now that most shops don't accept them anymore, or at least make a great deal of fuss whenever one is presented to them.
Oh, and we don't have to accept your money, whether it's fake, Scottish or otherwise, I could refuse to serve you just because I don't like your face.
Oh, and we don't have to accept your money, whether it's fake, Scottish or otherwise, I could refuse to serve you just because I don't like your face.
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Something tells me you know nothing of the COP and ripe untapped economies and their effect on "Rich" and "Poor" countries in Europe. The ECB just wants to give hand outs to those damn foreigners, right?AJUK said:Not going to happen anytime soon, if ever.
The only countries who now want to sign up are the poor ones holding out their begging bowls. Most of the rich countries in Europe want their old currencies back.
I loved your post about Ireland having it's "Begging bowl" out, strange since it's rate of growth was matched only by East Asia's Tiger market since around 1994 due to Ireland's low unemployment and inflation, low tax burden and a tiny public debt, not to mention a high supply of professionals and graduates, especially in the research sector (shown by Irelands booming Pharmaceutical industries). But 1994? that's when the single currency was introduced to poor countries to help them substance farm, correct?
Bracco said:I've come across this problem before, and I remember one whole town (including the bank, who had a sign on their door) which wouldn't accept scottish money.
A lot of people are just really ignorant.
That wouldn't be Fowey in Cornwall last summer would it?
We had a local guy throwing around a stupid amount of fake scottish notes and they ended up circulating around the town before someone at one of the banks noticed they were fake. I was working in one of the pubs at the time and we had a few customers who complained when we said we couldn't take scottish notes and gave the reason why. A couple of people got really irritated and demanded to speak to the landlord (who is scottish) it was so funny seeing them complain about it to a scottish guy.
There were signs up in all the shops (and the banks) and it had nothing to do with ignorance, there was a genuine reason for it and as far as i'm concerned anyone who was offended by after having the situation explained to them is pretty sad.
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