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    As UK workers might know, from Wednesday of this week the old £20 note is no longer going to be accepted in stores for transactions - people are going to have to go to the bank and swap them out. That means I am not allowed to take any of these £20 notes, otherwise my till will be £20 down because the cash office will not accept the notes anymore.

    I just KNOW this is going to cause no end of problems People are going get angry, they're going to shout, I'm going to have to have countless transactions voided because people will decide they don't want their stuff anymore or don't have enough cash to pay for it.

    On the plus side however - seeing as there is a minimum amount you must spend to pay on your card at my store - it might save me from having to give a large amount of change on a transaction that is less than £5 because I cannot accept the £20

    For those who don't know, this is the old note: http://magicstatistics.com/wp-conten...lgar20-rev.jpg and this is the new one: http://www.phuketgazette.net/newsima...g-1-iSneih.jpg

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    Oh, I can't wait to read about the hilarity that will ensue from this occurrence!
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    • #3
      Quoth Miss_Stress;746104For those who don't know, this is the old note: [URL="http://magicstatistics.com/wp-content/uploads/thumb-Lowther-Elgar20-rev.jpg"
      http://magicstatistics.com/wp-content/uploads/thumb-Lowther-Elgar20-rev.jpg[/URL] and this is the new one: http://www.phuketgazette.net/newsima...g-1-iSneih.jpg

      I like the new one better anyway....but I'm an American...so I don't matter much.
      Honestly.... the image of that in my head made me go "AWESOME!"..... and then I remembered I am terribly strange.-Red dazes

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      • #4
        Quoth BlaqueKatt View Post
        I like the new one better anyway....but I'm an American...so I don't matter much.
        I like the new one too! And Exaspera, I'm sure there'll be a fair few stories about it as well, lol.

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        • #5
          We're pretty lax about what we'll take, but I won't accept any bills from before the mid 80s-90s, depending on denomiantion. No security features I can check, therefore no go. Got a 100 from the 70s the other day. Felt bad until the woman insisted she had just got it from the bank. Yeah, uh, how about NO. Banks don't hand out ancient large currency that is being taken out of circulation for destruction. >.<

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          • #6
            Quoth Sleepwalker View Post
            Banks don't hand out ancient large currency that is being taken out of circulation for destruction. >.<
            My current local one does. The one back in Macon County, NC did (It's how I got my hands on a 1957 $1 Silver Note and a 1928 $20 Gold Note).

            Thing about the current local one is....they kinda don't check their money to make sure it's fake.
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            • #7
              Only weird notes I get these days are the ones we did to celebrate our federation in 2001. I know they're not fake because they have the EURion constellation on them-that is, people can't easily counterfeit them because it jams the photocopier!
              The best professors are mad scientists! -Zoom

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