when i used to work for a top highstreet retailer (in the 1990's) you could pay for goods in whatever currency you liked so long as it wasnt fake/madeup/printed at home. dollars, francs, marks were all accepted.
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Spending Scottish money in England/Wales...
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Posted 11 months ago #
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The Bank of England was founded by William Paterson from Lochmaben.
The banks with Scottish names are barely any more Scottish than the Bank of England.
The Clydesdale Bank is Australian owned etc.
Legal tender is not the same as legal currency.
Legal tender is to do with amount tendered, less to do with the type of note.Posted 11 months ago # -
BigButSlimmerBloke - Member
I bet she was pissing herself when she told her mates about it
She probably took it by mistake, realised she needed someone daft enough for her to be able to offload it onto and siged with relief when she saw a likely candidate
I was unaware of that. It is incredible though...am going to Google this as am interested in their actual status.
So it's incredible that some places don't take bits of paper which aren't legal tender? Really? Isn't the world just full of incredible things? Like pens, they're brilliant.
Get back to the IT helpdesk, you cock.
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just reading that definition of legal tender, it says that if you pay in legal tender no change can be demanded.
So if i bought something in england eg for £3.50 and paid with an english (legal tender) 5 pound note, could i be refused change (theoretically)
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bravohotel8er - Member
Get back to the IT helpdesk, you cock.
And hopefully when he's done that, he'll come back and wind you up some more.
I do love it when sensitive little souls get easily wound up
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When i worked in retail scotch notage was widely used by those from a 'travelling community'
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I'd been told as long as the note said pounds sterling on it (or whatever it says) then it is legal tender and the banks would accept them. I'd also been told (but never believed) that English notes got a higher exchange rate than Scottish...until I was in Canada on honeymoon in 2005 and saw an exchange rate board...the English Sterling got a higher rate than the Scottish Sterling - I do have a picture of it somewhere but can't find it.
I'm not fussed by it really...if they don't want my money and have already served me it's their problem, I'm offering to pay with acceptable currency...
Posted 11 months ago # -
If having Scottish notes is such a problem for you folks, I'll gladly take them off your hands. Address in profile.
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But then you'd be drinking it without the means to pay and that would probably be theft or similar
But he did have the means to pay, a perfectly legitimate item of paper currency. As pointed out legal tender and legal currency are not exactly the same.Posted 11 months ago # -
I think you'll find you sweaty socks are spending OUR money down here anyway.
Anyone who whimpers "but it's our oil" in a barely understandable mangling of the Queen's English can sniff my Barnett Forumla.
Posted 11 months ago # -
just reading that definition of legal tender, it says that if you pay in legal tender no change can be demanded.
So if i bought something in england eg for £3.50 and paid with an english (legal tender) 5 pound note, could i be refused change (theoretically)
As I said earlier, "legal tender" doesn't mean what most people think it means.
It has a very specific legal meaning pertaining to the settling of debts. Basically, if you offer to settle a debt using "legal tender" then you can't subsequently be sued for non-payment. That's essentially if.
It's got nothing to do with regular purchases (for any practical purposes anyway), it's down to an individual retailer to decide whether your offer is payment is acceptable. They're quite within their rights to decline Scottish £20s or, for that matter, English ones. Even if they gave you the same note earlier on in the night.
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