A Quick Note...

[BrenDAnn]

To those amongst my customers who think it's just SO hilarious to pay for your $1 to $3 worth of stuff with a $50 or $100 bill, then legit LAUGH when I'm making change...GET A LIFE. Better yet, DIAF. Yeah, that pretty much sums up my night at work tonight. Best one was the guy that handed me a $100 at closing. He got mostly $10's and $5's in change. Asshole!

[Whiskey]

To those amongst my customers who think it's just SO hilarious to pay for your $1 to $3 worth of stuff with a $50 or $100 bill, then legit LAUGH when I'm making change...GET A LIFE. Better yet, DIAF. Yeah, that pretty much sums up my night at work tonight. Best one was the guy that handed me a $100 at closing. He got mostly $10's and $5's in change. Asshole!

I got even with someone once. They handed me a 100$ and I made The Face (i cant help it, ok) and they were like "you can make change right?!" so I just told them "OH yeah, itll just take 10 minutes while we open the safe, then I can give you your food *points to bags sitting next to me, waiting to be handed out, shuts window*"

I took ten minutes to do it too.

Theres a bank ONE BLOCK away.

[Eisa]

I have to use a $50 or $100 sometimes because the bank likes doing that to me when I cash my school change check, regardless of what I actually ask for.

But when I do, I try to do it only when I'm at, say, Fred Meyer...and NOT at closing...and when I'm buying at least $20+ worth of stuff. Never at fast food places [although once or twice, very shamefully, at school....did not realize at all that's all I had ].

[ZedOmega]

The last time I had someone pay cover to go upstairs with a $100, I ended up following this procedure:

Step One: Take the bill-tester pen (don't know what it's actually called, but you know what I'm talking about) and mark it. If it's yellow or light brown...
Step Two: Ring up the cover.
Step Three: Start counting out the $95 change the person will eventually end up with in ones.

Bonus if the guy's there to see the band that's on stage at the time and it's the last song in their set.

[underemployeed]

It is funny how quickly, that $100 bills turns to sometihng smaller when you start counting out ones, I gave back $39 in ones, 1 five for a $50 used to by smokes on third shift because I had WAY to many ones and I mean yeah I don't want to drop them one at a time. It is always nice when customers ask you if it is alright to use a $100 so there is some warning. Or my favorite apologize for using $100 to pay for $82 worth of stuff.

[Imogene]

what it's actually called

An iodine pen... careful, though, those can be pretty easily outsmarted... if they bleached a different bill and just printed the new bill on the now white paper, the iodine pen fails, as it's reacting to a chemical in the paper/cotton bills are made from...

[Andara Bledin]

The pen is half useless.

The security strip that runs through one side, however, is much more difficult to fake.

^-.-^

[Draco]

The pen/marker is only good as a "front line defense" so to speak. It gives you a rough idea and tends to weed out the lower grade fakes.

I tend to give lower end bills as change if they're doing it simply to break the higher bill, honestly. Or my favorite, when I run out of one dollar bills, I give them about $10 in quarters. >.>

They're not happy, but such is life. My store is not a bank.

[BowserKoopa1]

I've had this happen quite a few times in the past where a customer would come in 5 minutes after we open and pay with a hundred. They should realize that we just opened up and that we don't have that kind of change to give. Then again, being sucky customers, they probably don't give a dam and just do it anyway.
On the flipside, I've also had to deal with people who think its totally hilarious to pay with a whole bunch of ones (especially if they are crumpled up ones). But I get even with them by straightening out the crumpled ones and taking my time counting the money.
What is their excuse for all the ones? "Oh I had a garage sale" or "I get alot of tips at my job". Good for you asshole, go to a bank and convert them to bigger bills.
Its times like this that I am glad I pay with credit cards 99.9% of the time. No hassle for anyone, no counting change, etc.

[Mondestrucken]

At the DMV, we have 2 clerks with change funds. One morning, both were running late (major traffic accident), and we had no change for the first 30 minutes. One lady tried to pay with $100 bill. I explained that we had no change for her $8 transaction. "So what am I supposed to do?" she sneered.

Well, you can wait until the change fund person makes it in, and I have no idea how long that is going to take, or you can do without change.

She tried to say that we could do her driver's license for free, and we all laughed. This is the government, we don't do anything for free.

Out came exact change. Don't you love it?

[JarethsPet]

Luckily, I'm allowed to flat out refuse the sale. Each shift only starts with 100 dollars and I'm not usually in a giving mood when I get to work. (something about a 40 min drive plus sucky coworkers blahblah)

[chainedbarista]

i'm of the opinion that a cashier should be able to refuse a small purchase when the idiot of a customer tries to pay with a larger bill.

go to the bank, ask for smaller denominations, whatever it takes, but don't burden a business with your stupidity.

(this doesnt' apply to eisa or anyone who asks for the smaller denominations and gets larger ones instead)

but we all know how corporate thinks...

[MoonCat]

I understand why using large bills for small purchases can be a pain, but I sometimes find myself doing that because I can't get to a bank. My work shift is 8:30-4:30, the same hours the banks are open around here. The only time I can get into a banking during working hours is when I'm on vacation. Normally I bank my paycheck and just take a certain amount in cash out every week. The ATM only gives one-dollar bills when you withdraw an amount lower than 5 dollars. If I need a hundred or so (say for groceries or whatever), it gives me twenties. So I might end up paying for something cheap with a twenty because it's all I've got, and it makes more sense to use cash than to use my debit card for a $1.95 purchase.

I'm never in a store right when they open or that close to closing, though, so at least I'm not doing it at those times. And I don't usually have 100-dollar bills but if someone gave me $95 in change all in one-dollar bills, that would be fine with me! As long as it's legal tender I'll take it.

[EricKei]

Twenties are cool ^_^ Those would only be a problem if half a dozen people did that in a row. Very unlikely. Also, it's *reasonable* for people to walk around with a bunch of them. Using a hundy for the same transaction? No.

[Swordsman422]

We have a policy at my store: No $100 bills for anything less than a $50 purchase. Period. The End.

This has pissed customers off in the past who protest that "it's all I have." Well, sir and/or madam, why don't I just take your "hunnert"and a $1.75 out of the drawer and HAND YOU THE FUCKING DRAWER? Because that is essentially what you're asking.

We can't just think about the customer in front of us. We have to think about the one that's fourth or fifth in line, too. That's what the policy is all about Go get that broken down or provide me with an alternate form of payment that you don't have to write all over (a check, we don't take those either. Get modern, y'know, hightech. I mean, what, does your home still have a moat?). We're not taking your "hunnert dolla bill" for a buck-seventy-five purchase. Have a nice day. What do you do with your smaller bills anyway? Add them to the toilet paper roll? Is a 20 not macho enough or something? Doesn't go along with your mysterious cowboy image? Have you SEEN Brokeback Mountain?

Sorry, I have a lot of pent-up anger at this crowd...