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Did you hear the one about the irish businessman who accepted a toy eur 100 note?

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    Did you hear the one about the irish businessman who accepted a toy eur 100 note?

    BBC News - Kids' toy 100 euros note accepted by business in Newry

    #2
    Lots of the larger shops/chains have pictures of larger denomination notes at the tills for the cashier to see and often two people are needed to verify the note is genuine.

    I know smaller shops in England have refused to accept Scottish notes and others refuse to accept £50 notes. So the business could have just refused to accept the note if in doubt.
    "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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      #3
      It is understood it was used to buy a sandwich in a fast food outlet.
      Must be a good sandwich.
      Will work inside IR35. Or for food.

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        #4
        When I was a cashier the petrol station didn't really care if you accepted duff notes. They just took it out of your pay.

        Although I caused a scene once when I refused to accept a ten pound note which had been ripped and then taped back together. They guy and his girlfriend demanded to know why a different place accepted it and were perplexed when I said they probably had a different note checking policy and how could somewhere have accepted it if they still had it?

        I hated that job.
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          #5
          Clearly no checks were done on this note and that business is now 100 euro down plus the value of the goods it was used to 'pay' for!
          I think plod needs an understanding of how business works (although in the case of this business he might have a point). They could only be 100 euro down if the sandwich was sold for nothing and they also changed the ELC note for real money.

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            #6
            Originally posted by barrydidit View Post
            I think plod needs an understanding of how business works (although in the case of this business he might have a point). They could only be 100 euro down if the sandwich was sold for nothing and they also changed the ELC note for real money.
            indeed they charge €100 for a sandwich they would probably give change. So if the sandwich was €4 then they gave €96 change and lost the cost and profit of the sandwich.

            so plod of course is wrong they are at maximum €100 down. Scary that anyone would let them out.
            Last edited by vetran; 12 March 2015, 10:37. Reason: wrong word
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              #7
              Good idea. Got several charity shops in town, mostly staffed by short sighted old ladies. Sure I could get a used jacket for one of my Monopoly notes.
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                #8
                €100 isn't worth much more than a sandwich these days
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                  #9
                  I thought Euros were monoply money anyway
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                  No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by MicrosoftBob View Post
                    I thought Euros were monoply money anyway
                    Maybe but it's much cheaper monopoly money than it was a few months ago!
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