"False" Euro Notes
Dec 29th 2004 | 11:06 am
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Tom Peel writes:
> Well, except that tendering a counterfeit is an offence in itself in
> many countries ...
So is keeping it.
> ... so more likely the scam involves threatening to call the
> police if you argue- do you really want to risk getting arrested?
Why not just go home and hide under the bed?
> What makes you so sure the banknote is genuine?
That's the default assumption. If the cashier believes otherwise, he
needs to explain why.
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> Well, except that tendering a counterfeit is an offence in itself in
> many countries ...
So is keeping it.
> ... so more likely the scam involves threatening to call the
> police if you argue- do you really want to risk getting arrested?
Why not just go home and hide under the bed?
> What makes you so sure the banknote is genuine?
That's the default assumption. If the cashier believes otherwise, he
needs to explain why.
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Dec 29th 2004 | 12:17 pm
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On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:11:18 -0800, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Hmmm.... Unless I were deliberately TRYING to pass a
>conterfeit note, I'd insist upon them calling a policeman to
>arbitrate, before I'd allowed them to confiscate my money!
In the US, that's what is supposed to happen if a clerk detects a
counterfeit note. Eventually (unless the cop who responds determines
you are a deliberate passer of the note) you'll get a receipt so you
can claim a tax write off for the amount of the bill. If you give a
counterfeit note to a bank teller, you get the receipt without
involving the cop.. assuming the teller believes you're a victim and
not deliberately trying to pass the note.
It's actually pretty standard procedure. BTDT on a 100USD I received
as a rent payment. Fortunately, the tenant had another C note to
replace the bad one.
What's the law in France?
Gordon
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Hmmm.... Unless I were deliberately TRYING to pass a
>conterfeit note, I'd insist upon them calling a policeman to
>arbitrate, before I'd allowed them to confiscate my money!
In the US, that's what is supposed to happen if a clerk detects a
counterfeit note. Eventually (unless the cop who responds determines
you are a deliberate passer of the note) you'll get a receipt so you
can claim a tax write off for the amount of the bill. If you give a
counterfeit note to a bank teller, you get the receipt without
involving the cop.. assuming the teller believes you're a victim and
not deliberately trying to pass the note.
It's actually pretty standard procedure. BTDT on a 100USD I received
as a rent payment. Fortunately, the tenant had another C note to
replace the bad one.
What's the law in France?
Gordon
Dec 30th 2004 | 1:20 am
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On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 22:30:21 GMT, "Dennis G. Rears"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>I still get a lot of looks in the USA when using $2 notes. Some cashiers
>bring them to the managers.
You are actually still spending those? I haven't seen one in over 20
years, and they were very rare then,
> In 1999 at the grocery store underneath FRA airport they took an old 10 DM
>I tried paying with into the office for 10 minutes. They told me the note
>was too old but they would still accept it. This was some leftover currency
>I had from when I lived in Berlin in hte late 70's.
Are you one of those people who keeps his money stuffed in a mattress?
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<[email protected]> wrote:
>I still get a lot of looks in the USA when using $2 notes. Some cashiers
>bring them to the managers.
You are actually still spending those? I haven't seen one in over 20
years, and they were very rare then,
> In 1999 at the grocery store underneath FRA airport they took an old 10 DM
>I tried paying with into the office for 10 minutes. They told me the note
>was too old but they would still accept it. This was some leftover currency
>I had from when I lived in Berlin in hte late 70's.
Are you one of those people who keeps his money stuffed in a mattress?
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Dec 30th 2004 | 2:02 am
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On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 23:22:36 +0100, Gerard van Wilgen wrote:
> ndeed, and moreover, it seems very unlikely that counterfeiting notes of 10
> euro would be a good idea. It probably costs as much money and effort to
> produce them as counterfeit notes of 50 euro, but you have to bring a lot of
> them into circulation (which to me seems to be the riskiest part of the
> operation) before you "earn" a decent profit.
But there's probably more ¤10 notes in everyday circulation so they won't
be spotted so easily, and therefore the risk is reduced. You've got the
whole of the Eurozone, and more, as a potential market. You only need a
miniscule profit per note and you're quids-in.
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> ndeed, and moreover, it seems very unlikely that counterfeiting notes of 10
> euro would be a good idea. It probably costs as much money and effort to
> produce them as counterfeit notes of 50 euro, but you have to bring a lot of
> them into circulation (which to me seems to be the riskiest part of the
> operation) before you "earn" a decent profit.
But there's probably more ¤10 notes in everyday circulation so they won't
be spotted so easily, and therefore the risk is reduced. You've got the
whole of the Eurozone, and more, as a potential market. You only need a
miniscule profit per note and you're quids-in.
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Tim C.
Dec 30th 2004 | 4:14 am
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"B Vaughan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 22:30:21 GMT, "Dennis G. Rears"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>I still get a lot of looks in the USA when using $2 notes. Some cashiers
>>bring them to the managers.
> You are actually still spending those? I haven't seen one in over 20
> years, and they were very rare then,
I use them all the time.
>> In 1999 at the grocery store underneath FRA airport they took an old 10
>> DM
>>I tried paying with into the office for 10 minutes. They told me the note
>>was too old but they would still accept it. This was some leftover
>>currency
>>I had from when I lived in Berlin in hte late 70's.
> Are you one of those people who keeps his money stuffed in a mattress?
No. It was my first trip to Gremany in 12 years. When I go overseas I
don't change back my foreign currency. I either keep it, spend it, or put
it in the charity jar.
dennis
news:[email protected]...
> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 22:30:21 GMT, "Dennis G. Rears"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>I still get a lot of looks in the USA when using $2 notes. Some cashiers
>>bring them to the managers.
> You are actually still spending those? I haven't seen one in over 20
> years, and they were very rare then,
I use them all the time.
>> In 1999 at the grocery store underneath FRA airport they took an old 10
>> DM
>>I tried paying with into the office for 10 minutes. They told me the note
>>was too old but they would still accept it. This was some leftover
>>currency
>>I had from when I lived in Berlin in hte late 70's.
> Are you one of those people who keeps his money stuffed in a mattress?
No. It was my first trip to Gremany in 12 years. When I go overseas I
don't change back my foreign currency. I either keep it, spend it, or put
it in the charity jar.
dennis
Dec 30th 2004 | 7:48 am
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> But there's probably more ?10 notes in everyday circulation so they won't
> be spotted so easily, and therefore the risk is reduced. You've got the
> whole of the Eurozone, and more, as a potential market. You only need a
> miniscule profit per note and you're quids-in.
Imagine a criminal travelling through the Eurozone with a set of trunks full
of 10 euro notes, buying items like tooth-brushes and pencils in every town
and filling a set of other trunks with small change.
There is perhaps little chance of being caught, but I think that most normal
jobs would be more profitable and less time-consuming.
Gerard van Wilgen
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> be spotted so easily, and therefore the risk is reduced. You've got the
> whole of the Eurozone, and more, as a potential market. You only need a
> miniscule profit per note and you're quids-in.
Imagine a criminal travelling through the Eurozone with a set of trunks full
of 10 euro notes, buying items like tooth-brushes and pencils in every town
and filling a set of other trunks with small change.
There is perhaps little chance of being caught, but I think that most normal
jobs would be more profitable and less time-consuming.
Gerard van Wilgen
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Dec 30th 2004 | 8:18 am
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"Gerard van Wilgen" <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
>> But there's probably more ?10 notes in everyday circulation so they
>> won't be spotted so easily, and therefore the risk is reduced.
>> You've got the whole of the Eurozone, and more, as a potential
>> market. You only need a miniscule profit per note and you're
>> quids-in.
>
> Imagine a criminal travelling through the Eurozone with a set of
> trunks full of 10 euro notes, buying items like tooth-brushes and
> pencils in every town and filling a set of other trunks with small
> change.
>
> There is perhaps little chance of being caught, but I think that most
> normal jobs would be more profitable and less time-consuming.
>
> Gerard van Wilgen
wan't it 8 or 9 years ago that France was awash in counterfeit 10 Franc
coins? worth maybe 1.5 euro each but they were a damned nuisance since
every waiter in the country could tell them by feel and passed them to
tourists left and right.
news:[email protected]:
>> But there's probably more ?10 notes in everyday circulation so they
>> won't be spotted so easily, and therefore the risk is reduced.
>> You've got the whole of the Eurozone, and more, as a potential
>> market. You only need a miniscule profit per note and you're
>> quids-in.
>
> Imagine a criminal travelling through the Eurozone with a set of
> trunks full of 10 euro notes, buying items like tooth-brushes and
> pencils in every town and filling a set of other trunks with small
> change.
>
> There is perhaps little chance of being caught, but I think that most
> normal jobs would be more profitable and less time-consuming.
>
> Gerard van Wilgen
wan't it 8 or 9 years ago that France was awash in counterfeit 10 Franc
coins? worth maybe 1.5 euro each but they were a damned nuisance since
every waiter in the country could tell them by feel and passed them to
tourists left and right.
Dec 30th 2004 | 1:34 pm
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Tom Peel wrote:
> EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:
>
>> nitram wrote:
>>> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:41:55 +0100, "szozu" <hoppbunny at hotmail com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> "Mxsmanic" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>>> news:[email protected]...
>>>>> "szozu" <hoppbunny at hotmail com> writes:
>>>>>> About a week ago someone said that a 50 EUR note was rejected because
>>>> the
>>>>>> signature on the note was "fraudulent."
>>>>> Of all the different ways in which to verify the authenticity of a
>>>>> euro
>>>>> banknote, why would anyone choose to look at the signature, which is
>>>>> _designed_ to change?
>>>>>> Today the same thing happened to me
>>>>>> at the supermarket with a 10 EUR note in spite of it being
>>>>>> Jean-Claude
>>>>>> Trichet's signature.
>>>>> People at your supermarket look at the signature on banknotes?
>>>>> Where do
>>>>> you live?
>>>> In Cannes. This happened at Champion. The other incident I know of
>>>> happened
>>>> at a hairdresser's in Antibes.
>>> There's a scam reported elsewhere where the person on the checkout
>>> declares a good note to be a forgery and keeps it.
>> Hmmm.... Unless I were deliberately TRYING to pass a conterfeit note,
>> I'd insist upon them calling a policeman to arbitrate, before I'd
>> allowed them to confiscate my money! (But then, some people still fall
>> for bunco games like the "Nigerian" letter, so I guess whoever said
>> "never understimate the stupidity of the common man" was right!)
> Well, except that tendering a counterfeit is an offence in itself in
> many countries, so more likely the scam involves threatening to call the
> police if you argue- do you really want to risk getting arrested? What
> makes you so sure the banknote is genuine?
Fine, if they think it's not, they can give it back to me!
(I'll pay by credit card, instead.)
>
> T.
> EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:
>
>> nitram wrote:
>>> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:41:55 +0100, "szozu" <hoppbunny at hotmail com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> "Mxsmanic" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>>> news:[email protected]...
>>>>> "szozu" <hoppbunny at hotmail com> writes:
>>>>>> About a week ago someone said that a 50 EUR note was rejected because
>>>> the
>>>>>> signature on the note was "fraudulent."
>>>>> Of all the different ways in which to verify the authenticity of a
>>>>> euro
>>>>> banknote, why would anyone choose to look at the signature, which is
>>>>> _designed_ to change?
>>>>>> Today the same thing happened to me
>>>>>> at the supermarket with a 10 EUR note in spite of it being
>>>>>> Jean-Claude
>>>>>> Trichet's signature.
>>>>> People at your supermarket look at the signature on banknotes?
>>>>> Where do
>>>>> you live?
>>>> In Cannes. This happened at Champion. The other incident I know of
>>>> happened
>>>> at a hairdresser's in Antibes.
>>> There's a scam reported elsewhere where the person on the checkout
>>> declares a good note to be a forgery and keeps it.
>> Hmmm.... Unless I were deliberately TRYING to pass a conterfeit note,
>> I'd insist upon them calling a policeman to arbitrate, before I'd
>> allowed them to confiscate my money! (But then, some people still fall
>> for bunco games like the "Nigerian" letter, so I guess whoever said
>> "never understimate the stupidity of the common man" was right!)
> Well, except that tendering a counterfeit is an offence in itself in
> many countries, so more likely the scam involves threatening to call the
> police if you argue- do you really want to risk getting arrested? What
> makes you so sure the banknote is genuine?
Fine, if they think it's not, they can give it back to me!
(I'll pay by credit card, instead.)
>
> T.
Dec 30th 2004 | 1:39 pm
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Dennis G. Rears wrote:
> I still get a lot of looks in the USA when using $2 notes. Some cashiers
> bring them to the managers.
I know they exist, but I've seen very few $2 bills in my
(rather long) lifetime. I believe there's a reason they are
not in more general circulation, but I can't remember why.
>
> In 1999 at the grocery store underneath FRA airport they took an old 10 DM
> I tried paying with into the office for 10 minutes. They told me the note
> was too old but they would still accept it. This was some leftover currency
> I had from when I lived in Berlin in hte late 70's.
But they gave it back to you, right? They didn't try to
confiscate it, just told you it was no longer negotiable?
> I still get a lot of looks in the USA when using $2 notes. Some cashiers
> bring them to the managers.
I know they exist, but I've seen very few $2 bills in my
(rather long) lifetime. I believe there's a reason they are
not in more general circulation, but I can't remember why.
>
> In 1999 at the grocery store underneath FRA airport they took an old 10 DM
> I tried paying with into the office for 10 minutes. They told me the note
> was too old but they would still accept it. This was some leftover currency
> I had from when I lived in Berlin in hte late 70's.
But they gave it back to you, right? They didn't try to
confiscate it, just told you it was no longer negotiable?
Dec 30th 2004 | 6:08 pm
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On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 17:14:41 GMT, "Dennis G. Rears"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>"B Vaughan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected].. .
>> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 22:30:21 GMT, "Dennis G. Rears"
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>I still get a lot of looks in the USA when using $2 notes. Some cashiers
>>>bring them to the managers.
>> You are actually still spending those? I haven't seen one in over 20
>> years, and they were very rare then,
>I use them all the time.
Where do you get them?
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<[email protected]> wrote:
>"B Vaughan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected].. .
>> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 22:30:21 GMT, "Dennis G. Rears"
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>I still get a lot of looks in the USA when using $2 notes. Some cashiers
>>>bring them to the managers.
>> You are actually still spending those? I haven't seen one in over 20
>> years, and they were very rare then,
>I use them all the time.
Where do you get them?
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Dec 31st 2004 | 1:39 am
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On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 08:08:52 +0100, B Vaughan<[email protected]> wrote:
>On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 17:14:41 GMT, "Dennis G. Rears"
><[email protected]> wrote:
>>"B Vaughan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>news:[email protected]. ..
>>> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 22:30:21 GMT, "Dennis G. Rears"
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>I still get a lot of looks in the USA when using $2 notes. Some cashiers
>>>>bring them to the managers.
>>> You are actually still spending those? I haven't seen one in over 20
>>> years, and they were very rare then,
>>I use them all the time.
>Where do you get them?
DIY colour copier in the garden shed like the rest of us.
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>On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 17:14:41 GMT, "Dennis G. Rears"
><[email protected]> wrote:
>>"B Vaughan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>news:[email protected]. ..
>>> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 22:30:21 GMT, "Dennis G. Rears"
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>I still get a lot of looks in the USA when using $2 notes. Some cashiers
>>>>bring them to the managers.
>>> You are actually still spending those? I haven't seen one in over 20
>>> years, and they were very rare then,
>>I use them all the time.
>Where do you get them?
DIY colour copier in the garden shed like the rest of us.
--
Martin
Dec 31st 2004 | 3:45 am
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"B Vaughan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 17:14:41 GMT, "Dennis G. Rears"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>"B Vaughan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>news:[email protected]. ..
>>> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 22:30:21 GMT, "Dennis G. Rears"
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>I still get a lot of looks in the USA when using $2 notes. Some
>>>>cashiers
>>>>bring them to the managers.
>>> You are actually still spending those? I haven't seen one in over 20
>>> years, and they were very rare then,
>>I use them all the time.
> Where do you get them?
My local credit union. I just ask for them.
dennis
news:[email protected]...
> On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 17:14:41 GMT, "Dennis G. Rears"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>"B Vaughan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>news:[email protected]. ..
>>> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 22:30:21 GMT, "Dennis G. Rears"
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>I still get a lot of looks in the USA when using $2 notes. Some
>>>>cashiers
>>>>bring them to the managers.
>>> You are actually still spending those? I haven't seen one in over 20
>>> years, and they were very rare then,
>>I use them all the time.
> Where do you get them?
My local credit union. I just ask for them.
dennis
Dec 31st 2004 | 9:11 am
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On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 18:34:03 -0800,
"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Tom Peel wrote:
>> EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:
>>
>>> nitram wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:41:55 +0100, "szozu" <hoppbunny at hotmail com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> "Mxsmanic" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>>>> news:[email protected]...
>>>>>> "szozu" <hoppbunny at hotmail com> writes:
>>>>>>> About a week ago someone said that a 50 EUR note was rejected because
>>>>> the
>>>>>>> signature on the note was "fraudulent."
>>>>>> Of all the different ways in which to verify the authenticity of a
>>>>>> euro
>>>>>> banknote, why would anyone choose to look at the signature, which is
>>>>>> _designed_ to change?
>>>>>>> Today the same thing happened to me
>>>>>>> at the supermarket with a 10 EUR note in spite of it being
>>>>>>> Jean-Claude
>>>>>>> Trichet's signature.
>>>>>> People at your supermarket look at the signature on banknotes?
>>>>>> Where do
>>>>>> you live?
>>>>> In Cannes. This happened at Champion. The other incident I know of
>>>>> happened
>>>>> at a hairdresser's in Antibes.
>>>> There's a scam reported elsewhere where the person on the checkout
>>>> declares a good note to be a forgery and keeps it.
>>> Hmmm.... Unless I were deliberately TRYING to pass a conterfeit note,
>>> I'd insist upon them calling a policeman to arbitrate, before I'd
>>> allowed them to confiscate my money! (But then, some people still fall
>>> for bunco games like the "Nigerian" letter, so I guess whoever said
>>> "never understimate the stupidity of the common man" was right!)
>> Well, except that tendering a counterfeit is an offence in itself in
>> many countries, so more likely the scam involves threatening to call the
>> police if you argue- do you really want to risk getting arrested? What
>> makes you so sure the banknote is genuine?
>Fine, if they think it's not, they can give it back to me!
Not legally, they can't.
>(I'll pay by credit card, instead.)
Try that in the first place, instead.
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"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Tom Peel wrote:
>> EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:
>>
>>> nitram wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:41:55 +0100, "szozu" <hoppbunny at hotmail com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> "Mxsmanic" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>>>> news:[email protected]...
>>>>>> "szozu" <hoppbunny at hotmail com> writes:
>>>>>>> About a week ago someone said that a 50 EUR note was rejected because
>>>>> the
>>>>>>> signature on the note was "fraudulent."
>>>>>> Of all the different ways in which to verify the authenticity of a
>>>>>> euro
>>>>>> banknote, why would anyone choose to look at the signature, which is
>>>>>> _designed_ to change?
>>>>>>> Today the same thing happened to me
>>>>>>> at the supermarket with a 10 EUR note in spite of it being
>>>>>>> Jean-Claude
>>>>>>> Trichet's signature.
>>>>>> People at your supermarket look at the signature on banknotes?
>>>>>> Where do
>>>>>> you live?
>>>>> In Cannes. This happened at Champion. The other incident I know of
>>>>> happened
>>>>> at a hairdresser's in Antibes.
>>>> There's a scam reported elsewhere where the person on the checkout
>>>> declares a good note to be a forgery and keeps it.
>>> Hmmm.... Unless I were deliberately TRYING to pass a conterfeit note,
>>> I'd insist upon them calling a policeman to arbitrate, before I'd
>>> allowed them to confiscate my money! (But then, some people still fall
>>> for bunco games like the "Nigerian" letter, so I guess whoever said
>>> "never understimate the stupidity of the common man" was right!)
>> Well, except that tendering a counterfeit is an offence in itself in
>> many countries, so more likely the scam involves threatening to call the
>> police if you argue- do you really want to risk getting arrested? What
>> makes you so sure the banknote is genuine?
>Fine, if they think it's not, they can give it back to me!
Not legally, they can't.
>(I'll pay by credit card, instead.)
Try that in the first place, instead.
************* DAVE HATUNEN ([email protected]) *************
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* My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *
Jan 3rd 2005 | 2:56 am
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"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" schrieb:
> szozu wrote:
>> About a week ago someone said that a 50 EUR note was rejected because the
>> signature on the note was "fraudulent." Today the same thing happened to me
>> at the supermarket with a 10 EUR note in spite of it being Jean-Claude
>> Trichet's signature. These new notes are just coming into circulation and
>> apparently many cashiers are not being informed:
> Interesting to know that European supermarket clerks can be
> as clueless as Amercan ones!
They definitely can. Back in 2002, shortly after the Euro was introduced,
there were reports of German shop clerks refusing non-German Euro coins,
claiming the customer had to exchange them for German Euro coins at a bank ...
... Martin
> szozu wrote:
>> About a week ago someone said that a 50 EUR note was rejected because the
>> signature on the note was "fraudulent." Today the same thing happened to me
>> at the supermarket with a 10 EUR note in spite of it being Jean-Claude
>> Trichet's signature. These new notes are just coming into circulation and
>> apparently many cashiers are not being informed:
> Interesting to know that European supermarket clerks can be
> as clueless as Amercan ones!
They definitely can. Back in 2002, shortly after the Euro was introduced,
there were reports of German shop clerks refusing non-German Euro coins,
claiming the customer had to exchange them for German Euro coins at a bank ...
... Martin
Jan 3rd 2005 | 3:02 am
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Dennis G. Rears schrieb:
> I still get a lot of looks in the USA when using $2 notes. Some cashiers
> bring them to the managers.
Reactions to $1 coins (particularly the most recent version) are interesting
too ...
> In 1999 at the grocery store underneath FRA airport they took an old 10 DM
> I tried paying with into the office for 10 minutes. They told me the note
> was too old but they would still accept it.
In Germany you can exchange old notes at branches of the National Bank for
an infinite time, so that's probably what they did.
Every now and again some shop in Germany advertises "we still take DM".
... Martin
> I still get a lot of looks in the USA when using $2 notes. Some cashiers
> bring them to the managers.
Reactions to $1 coins (particularly the most recent version) are interesting
too ...
> In 1999 at the grocery store underneath FRA airport they took an old 10 DM
> I tried paying with into the office for 10 minutes. They told me the note
> was too old but they would still accept it.
In Germany you can exchange old notes at branches of the National Bank for
an infinite time, so that's probably what they did.
Every now and again some shop in Germany advertises "we still take DM".
... Martin
