What part of "This is not legal tender" do you not understand?!

[Lace Neil Singer]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/p...al-tender.html

First of all, some background information. The old twenty pound notes with Edward Elgar on the back stopped being legal tender as of 30th June, and just became worthless bits of paper. You can still take them down the bank and swap them tho, at the moment.

I had an SC try to pay with one yesterday. I told him over and over again, that I could not accept it and he would not listen. Eventually, he got his girlf to pay on her credit card, and he kept up a running commentary about how unfair it was that I wouldn't take the twenty, and how he was going to go over the road and get rid of it there.

As soon as he left, I rang up the main store to inform them that the SC was planning on going there to get rid of his twenty. XD Stupid moron; the Edward Elgar note now is just a pretty piece of paper, and no shop is going to accept it. Also, we have a bank just accross the road and it wouldn't kill him to go there and swap it.

[BrenDAnn]

Sounds like he KNEW the note wasn't legal, but was trying to pawn it off on you anyway. Did you suggest the bank to him?

[Lace Neil Singer]

Oh yes, about a dozen times. -.- And he still kept saying, "Well, why can't you accept it?"

[dalesys]

Oh yes, about a dozen times. -.- And he still kept saying, "Well, why can't you accept it?"

"The Queen said so."



(That would be the Queen of Threadneedle Street, wouldn't it?)

[RayvenQ]

Oh yes, about a dozen times. -.- And he still kept saying, "Well, why can't you accept it?"

"Do we LOOK like a bank? Do we SOUND like a Bank? Do we WALK like a bank? Then no, we're not a bank"

[Jay 2K Winger]

"The Queen said so."



(That would be the Queen of Threadneedle Street, wouldn't it?)

What you did there.

I see it.

[Lots42]

Oh yes, about a dozen times. -.- And he still kept saying, "Well, why can't you accept it?"

It makes me wonder if he had been banned from the bank. Or has a warrant out.

[aurelemsrealm]

"Do we LOOK like a bank? Do we SOUND like a Bank? Do we WALK like a bank? Then no, we're not a bank"

Unfortunately, many sucktomers tend to think of stores as their personal banks.

[Marmalady]

"Do we LOOK like a bank? Do we SOUND like a Bank? Do we WALK like a bank? Then no, we're not a bank"

But you haz drawers full of money! You must be a bank!

[RayvenQ]

Actually, that explains the whole "get it from the back room even though you say you don't have it in stock" they must think there's a vault somewhere.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I think he was just lazy; or possibly, suffering from terminal "selective hearing" syndrome. You know, where you're saying one thing and the SC hears another. All the time I'm saying, "The note is not legal tender, you have to go to a bank", he's hearing, "I'm refusing to take your note cuz I'm a horrible meany pants!"

Just like the way that when you say, "I'm sorry, but I can't give you that refund/let you in this restricted area/give you a freebie/give you a discount/insert other here" the SC hears, "Your mother was a hamster and your father smells of elderberries!" and gets mad. XD