Old fivers

[larmen]

Bottom line is that some shops south of the border don't like Scotish funny money.
Dont ask me why but they don't.

I think the few times I tried it here went OK. The one time I got NI notes was different. But people are similarly sceptical on an English £50 note. It's just unusual.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

The paper on Scottish notes is thinner and so more susceptible to forging. People are also not used to them south of the border. They feel different and so shopkeepers are wary of them. Fair enough.

I've seen shopkeepers refuse to take them for this reason on occasion but not just for the hell of it. Shops want your money after all, but only if it is real 😁.Not often but it does happen round here.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Incidentally, I agree about the £50 notes. Plenty of shops or pubs refuse them, wherever they come from. I'd never try to pay with a £50.

 

[SocketRocket]

Incidentally, I agree about the £50 notes. Plenty of shops or pubs refuse them, wherever they come from. I'd never try to pay with a £50.

A simple test of a £50 note is to rub a red area on a white paper surface. If it's genuine it leaves a red mark.

 

[Deleted member 1740]

Incidentally, I agree about the £50 notes. Plenty of shops or pubs refuse them, wherever they come from. I'd never try to pay with a £50.

I got paid for quite a big job in 50's and it was a nightmare getting rid of them. In the end I banked them, every shop I tried to use them in they'd look at me very suspiciously and thoroughly check them.

 

[Fish]

I got paid for quite a big job in 50's and it was a nightmare getting rid of them. In the end I banked them, every shop I tried to use them in they'd look at me very suspiciously and thoroughly check them.

Do you blame them 😂😂

 

[backwoodsman]

So why did you call it Monopoly money if you did not mean to insult....old chap.

One explanation could be (and this is no insult either intended or given) because in terms of legal tender, Scottish banknotes and Monopoly money have the same value?

 

[Norrin Radd]

I got paid for quite a big job in 50's and it was a nightmare getting rid of them. In the end I banked them, every shop I tried to use them in they'd look at me very suspiciously and thoroughly check them.

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i had a supermarket try to tell me that a £50 note i was using was a fake .police called and to the supermarket managers shame was told that the red was the real one and the one he was telling me was real was in fact a fake one .i went back to my shopping to pay for it and they had changed people on the till and again was told it was a fake. now i love a good laugh and joke but this was now coming a bloody joke,the manager was called and the assistant told ,game over you would have thought ,but no.guess who got the right hump when i checked all the notes in my change were real ,the managerwas called again and the assistant was told that i had every right to inspect my change as much as the shop had of inspecting my monies.

 

[Coffey]

Get it all the time with the Northern Irish notes in England, hardly anywhere will accept it. Had many an argument with the staff about them.

 

[Three]

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