So, I went to the hardware store today and they would not accept my Sac dollars for payment!!
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I went to a nationwide store and my bill was $19.18. So, I laid out $20.00 in Sac coins.
The cashier said "we do not accept that kind of money here."
I looked back at her and said, "excuse me?" "You are telling me my money is no good in your store!" She said "Yes." I then proceeded to tell her to call her manager and she said it would not make a bit of difference but she did it just to make me happy.
The manager got to the counter said asked what the problem was and I told him what was said and he apologized to me and took the cashier from the counter and replaced her with another person.
So, that was my eventful morning today. Richard.
The cashier said "we do not accept that kind of money here."
I looked back at her and said, "excuse me?" "You are telling me my money is no good in your store!" She said "Yes." I then proceeded to tell her to call her manager and she said it would not make a bit of difference but she did it just to make me happy.
The manager got to the counter said asked what the problem was and I told him what was said and he apologized to me and took the cashier from the counter and replaced her with another person.
So, that was my eventful morning today. Richard.
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"Get out, and take your Sacagawea dollars with ya!"
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Pete
<< <i>You should have gone on a "Rampage!"
Numish....I was quite mad and would have gladly gone on a rampage, but "Tis The Season".......I do not like to get upset around the holiday season.
Tomkins......I could only imagine what they would have said if I laid out some 20 Cent pieces. Even then the manager may have turned that down unless he was a coin collector like the rest of us.
I am tempted one day to pay using a $2 bill, Sac, IKE and Half!!! I'll be there all day as they try to find the right cash drawer slots to drop them into!
"The silver is mine and the gold is mine,' declares the LORD GOD Almighty."
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the ones i really like are times when i pay for something with a $50 bill, which admittedly don't happen with the frequency i'd like!!!!! i always direct them to the spot where it says "this bill is legal tender.........." and just grin when they glance up after they read it.
al h.
<< <i>I am tempted one day to pay using a $2 bill, Sac, IKE and Half!!! I'll be there all day as they try to find the right cash drawer slots to drop them into! >>
I often pay with 2 dollar bills as well as an occassional IKE and Kennedys quite a bit. The same reaction wherever I go.
I once went into a bank in Lake City, Florida and asked the teller if she had an Eisenhower dollars I could buy. She looked up at me and asked, "what are those?" I looked back at her and her supervisor was standing there and I said, "You live in this country and work as a bank teller and you do not know what an Eisenhower dollar is???" I proceeded to ask her is she even knew who he was and she said she was sorry, but no. Then I walked out mumbling some stuff I should not have. But, hey.....you live here, at least know your modern coinage. I can understand a person not knowing 2 cent or 20 cent peices, but come on.....and IKE dollar??
I really don't believe that the people that hesitate to accept $1 and $0.50 coins and $2.00 bills are trying to cause trouble. It is just that most are really uninformed and don't know that the coins and bills are legitimate. Those of us who know something about coins and paper currency should not assume that everyone does - and it is not necessarily their fault. If the store's management doesn't educate its staff on what is "legal tender" then please blame the store, not $5.50/hour clerk. Many of these cashiers work very hard for very low wages, and many have never seen these "strange denominations". I've had clerks refuse $2.00 bills and Kennedy half dollars becuase they honestly didn't know what they were. I've wanted to go ballistic - but wait a minute, it may just be the laziness or stupidity of management that has not bothered to do the basics in training their personnel.
I know its easy to jump on the little guy, but put the blame where it belongs - on lazy, or ignorant, or just plain greedy management that won't take a few minutes to educate people about what money is acceptable - please don't "kill the messenger" - send that angry letter to the company's president - include a pig's carcass if you want to make your point in a strong manner - but be polite.
Thank you for your attention - a former cashier who always tried to smile even when the customer was a rude, arrogant, overbearing jerk.
Now when I see her, she asks if I have any more of those weird dollars!
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<< <i>i always direct them to the spot where it says "this bill is legal tender.........." >>
Which has zero force of law as it relates to whether or not a private business has to accept it as payment.
Russ, NCNE
Recently at my bank i ask the teller for a roll of Sac dollars I think i said Dollar coins, She laughed at me and said Sir they haven't made Dollar coins for years. A BANK TELLER #@$@&@#$%@& Finally the head teller gave me what i needed and the teller that took care of me learned that Dollars were still made. Education i agree is a great thing. Wish i had more Education myself.
"The silver is mine and the gold is mine,' declares the LORD GOD Almighty."
and it sets us apart from practitioners and consultants. Gregor
Russ - I think you are wrong. I can't find it right now, but I'm certain I've read that a business cannot refuse legal tender of the US in payment. [That might date back to when paper currency was just being instituted on par with gold and silver coinage].
<< <i>There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise. >>
United States Treasury.
It's a very common misconception.
Russ, NCNE
The original post about the woman not believing the Sac was real money recalled in me a story about the big rollout
event for the Sacs. Every Wal-Mart store in the country was given a supply of the new coin and they were the first to
hand them out as change. A dear friend who worked there told me on the second day, she gave a woman back change
including two Sac dollars. The woman examined them with curiosity then handed them back and requested singles, adding
"I want something I can spend anywhere, not just here at Wal-Mart."
eh, sooner or later, it ALL ends up at Wal-Mart.
Kris
"I think I have finally lived long enough to realize that the big man in the sky aint talking" Ogden Nash
"When all you got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail"
<< <i>Every Wal-Mart store in the country was given a supply of the new coin and they were the first to
hand them out as change. >>
Same with the Safeway stores here. The one where I shop still has the POP cards that say "The Golden Dollar is available here". Of course, if you ask the clerk for them, they don't actually have any.
Russ, NCNE
See if they will let you have the POP cards, they will probably be a collectors item some day and you can sell them on eBay.
I haven't had a single odd look when paying with $2 bills. Kind of a letdown....
Also, all of the JFK's are spenders - why is it that ones from the 1990's always look like they were run over by a truck? There are always some decent-looking ones from 1971, but forget the 1990's.
New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.
I hand the cashier six JFKs. She looks at them like they are funny money.
"We don't take these."
I reply, "They are fifty cent pieces. Six of them equals $3."
"No, we do not take these."
"Why not?"
"We just don't."
"You have to accept them, they are legal U.S. tender."
"Sorry"
"Well, that is all I have, what do you want me to do?"
She then runs over to the next booth to ask the man inside to look at the JFKs.
More than a minute later, she returns. "No, we cannot take these. We will take a check."
"I don't have a check on me!"
By then, the cars are piling up behind me and the booth gal is looking panicked as those behind me steam.
"Ok, just this once, we will take these. Don't try to use them again."
With that, I motored on my way.
Geeessh!
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question for you I understand they can have there on policy
as to accept US legal tender or not but if they don't except
it what do they take. and if they take legal tender of one kind(ex
have they not established a policy to accept legal tender
so they now must except all US legal tender based on past practice??
just wondering (anylawyers out there)
TIm
I have to agree with Pushkin here - the teller probably didn't know what these coins were, and honestly would you prefer they hire only the best people they can find and pay them double or triple wages and increase their prices on everything? Maybe it was a new worker or something.
JJacks
She probably never saw "that kind of money" before.
In Oceanside, CA people were complaining about problems that the Camp Pendelton Marine base was causing. One week they paid all of the marines in $2 bills and when the town merchants saw all the $2 bills that came into their shops, they quit complaining.
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<< <i>and if they take legal tender of one kind(exollar bill)
have they not established a policy to accept legal tender
so they now must except all US legal tender based on past practice?? >>
Not according to the US Treasury, no. For example, they specifically cite the example of convenience stores refusing to accept bills larger than $20 as being a perfectly acceptable practice.
Russ, NCNE
<< <i>Not according to the US Treasury, no. For example, they specifically cite the example of convenience stores refusing to accept bills larger than $20 as being a perfectly acceptable practice. >>
But the stores don't need to know that