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Quoth bbbr View PostI usually send all my loose coin thru a self scan ....
Quoth bbbr View PostAs far as buying loose or rolled coinI'm trying to see things from your point of view, but I can't get my head that far up my keister!
Who is John Galt?
-Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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Quoth morgana View PostOkay, Myt, with that buildup you HAVE to tell it!Engaged to the amazing Marmalady. She is my Silver Dragon, shining as bright as the sun. I her Black Dragon (though good honestly), dark as night..fierce and strong.
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FWIW, the definition of "legal tender" (in the UK, at least) is purely the method that is guaranteed to discharge a debt which is brought up in court. The rules are a bit fiddly, but boil down to:
- Exact change only - to the penny.
- Use Bank of England notes and Royal Mint coins, all in Sterling currency, if the debt is denominated in Sterling. No cheques or other financial instruments - only cash.
- Use the largest denominations possible to add up to the correct amount. So no, you can't do it in pennies out of spite. However, I believe there are some minor exceptions to a strict interpretation of this rule; certainly I suspect that any "reasonable" combination of currency would satisfy the court in practice.
If the debtor brings money satisfying those criteria to the court and states that he is willing to use that money to settle the debt then and there, then the creditor cannot legally claim that the debtor was unwilling to pay, and must accept that offer of payment, or else lose the right to enforce the debt by any other means.
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Quoth Monterey Jack View PostHow about if the store opens up a roll of "dimes" only to find pennies inside?"Crazy may always be open for business, but on the full moon, it has buy one get one free specials." - WishfulSpirit
"Sometimes customers remind me of zombies, but I'm pretty sure that zombies are smarter." - MelindaJoy77
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Quoth Seanette View PostSince there's a significant size difference between the two, I would expect a cashier with at least half a brain to notice the discrepancy.Any fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling.
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Quoth ComputerNecromancer View PostBut you have to open and count the rolls too. Unless you get a roll of coins straight from the bank, there could be *anything* in there.
And don't think scammers won't do it.
Come to think of it, I've gotten canadian quarters in change from SCO that have their "change" bins filled from bank rolls, so even that isn't a guarantee.
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Where I work, we normally get our coin rolls from the bank. I found a foreign coin in with my quarters a few days ago."Crazy may always be open for business, but on the full moon, it has buy one get one free specials." - WishfulSpirit
"Sometimes customers remind me of zombies, but I'm pretty sure that zombies are smarter." - MelindaJoy77
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It's amazing how often a Canadian penny will get slipped into a roll of pennies. At both jobs I had, I'd open a bank roll of pennies and find at least one Canadian coin.. which I'd get if I were in one of the Northern states. Between that and the occasional slug people would try to pass off as a coin... yeah.
Arkansas requires that lenders accept legal tender (aka CASH) as payment for debts. Failure to do so will result in the debt being forgiven.. or so I have been told by both a nurse and a lawyer.If I make no sense, I apologize. I'm constantly interrupted by an actual toddler.
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Is foreign coin (that's not valid in the business location) 'legal tender' though? A store can't do anything with it and I'd suspect that the bank doesn't want it either/won't credit the store.
We can't use it...usually it just ends up circulating until someone brings their stash to the Coinstar and it ends up in the reject tray. (now there's an experiment. Somehow mark a Canadian coin that's in the cash drawer and see if it eventually ends up in the Coinstar ten feet away...tracking the coin would probably require an RFID tag of sorts though and might get into all kinds of 'privacy' issues...while the coin could be tracked nobody would know who had it). Usually I can catch said coins before giving them as change, but I've had SCs demand that I open the drawer to "give them an American penny" (a couple have been ballsy enough to rifle through their change purse and try to give me all their strange coins to exchange...no. There are two banks within walking distance).Last edited by Dreamstalker; 10-24-2014, 03:35 PM."I am quite confident that I do exist."
"Excuse me, I'm making perfect sense. You're just not keeping up." The Doctor
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