I arrived home yesterday after working in Glasgow for a week ,and this morning had to venture out to buy some milk.I went into my wallet only to find Scottish notes in there.To my embarrassment in front of the whole Que i was told they don’t except “Scot money ,have you any English money”, i looked, a few notes all bank of Scotland.
Now when I’m in Scotland they take the English stuff.
I know its the choice of the shop owner whether they take this cash or not but surly it all goes into the banks.:mad:
By: Last Lightning - 7th October 2008 at 14:00
any scotish bank notes that forum members cant get rid of can be sent to………………….me:):)
By: old shape - 28th September 2008 at 23:47
More often than not it is a fear that a note with which the shopkeeper is not familiar could be a forgery.
Many forgers used the technique of passing Scots bank notes south of the border.
Nothing to do with racism.
Moggy
When I worked in a shop, I was told that it was agin the law to refuse legal tender….for example to preserve loose change or the till float, some shops had a sign up saying “Sorry, we do not take £50 notes”. This, I was told was not legal.
If it had said, “Due to the vast amount of £50 note forgeries in the area – we are not taking £50 notes”, it would be OK.
The refusal of the Scotts pound is as you say fear of forgery, but in a lot of cases it is dumb ignorance on the part of the shopkeeper. Somebody told him (Down the pub) it was not good tender and that’s that.
I’ve not seen a Northern Irish note……….I was in Belfast two weeks ago and all my transactions were done in English money, and I received back English money.
I keep forgetting that Eire uses the Eurodollar as does the rest of Yerp.
By: Newforest - 28th September 2008 at 13:35
Toured Kent last week with the remains of my Scottish money, the only shop not to accept it was a charity shop!
By: Moggy C - 28th September 2008 at 12:34
More often than not it is a fear that a note with which the shopkeeper is not familiar could be a forgery.
Many forgers used the technique of passing Scots bank notes south of the border.
Nothing to do with racism.
Moggy
By: Arabella-Cox - 28th September 2008 at 12:13
That’s a funny old quote you’ve found there. Yes it’s true legal tender is a phrase used when discussing a payment of debt, but it’s upon those foundations that the rules used in shops are laid. Therefore a business will tend to accept what is considered as “legal tender”. But it’s because these rules aren’t set in stone that some shops in England and Wales accept scottish notes and some don’t.
The above based on notes from my Financial Studies AS. I can assume that to be correct.
By: Arabella-Cox - 28th September 2008 at 00:24
I know it’s actually ridiculous. Scottish Notes aren’t legal tender ANYWHERE! (including Scotland). The shop has the right to refuse to accept your hard earned cash.
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