On June 08 2011 08:31 MaestroSC wrote: if its large than 5$ its extremely rude to pay in change in my opinion. It is such an inconvenience for the people working and for people trying to pay after you, who now have to wait for your change to be counted. just my $.02 hahahaha sry i had to.
But ya get ur change turned into cash if your going to spend it imo. Hassle yourself instead of making a hassle for other people. basically by paying in change your saying "im too lazy to get this turned into bills..enjoy counting."
whereas imo u should just take the time to get it exchanged into bills at a bank or coin machine.
But don't they get paid to deal with legal tender and any transactions that happen during their shift? i mean its rude sure but i could care less if you are getting paid money per hour to do a job you should do the job not bitch and be done with it.
Please don't do this if you eat at a place where you pay at the register and there's a line behind you. It is quite annoying, speaking from experience.
I guess it is not legal to pay with coins in some places.
lol this was just posted and I just quoted this like a few posts before.
Anyways, it is completely legal to pay with coins, they just don't have to legally accept it as a form of payment. The article is slightly sensationalized, if you read other ones, you'd realize he was actually charged with disorderly conduct for the manner in which he threw the coins on the counter, was supposedly yelling or something, and had them spill all onto the floor, etc.
On May 14 2011 10:21 Maliris wrote: its more rude to pay with a huge denomination note, like £100 note at a café or something... I think cashiers are allowed to refuse to accept this though by law, not sure
In my experience shopkeeper's actually want coins, because they usually lack coins and it saves the cashier (at supermarkets) having to go to other tills to get coins for your change. As long as you pre-count at least some of it then I don't think it matters. And if you don't pre-count it, then the only person you're going to piss off is the guy behind you, or the cashier if their lunchbreak is soon or something
See I don't get this. Paying for say, a $3 item, with a $100 note, is barely any different to paying with a $10 note. There is no extra maths, or thinking involved. The only difference is, instead of just giving them $7 back, you grab an extra $50 and 2 $20s. It takes all of 2 seconds. O.o
It's not really an issue here in Australia, but when I was back home in Belfast visiting family a year or so ago, my cousin stressed not to pay for small stuff with a £50 because people would hate me for it. I inevitably ended up with only £50s left and had to buy a £1.50 card or something, got the dirtiest look from the cashier. Must be a cultural thing I guess.
Speaking on which, I have never seen a £100 note, do they even exist?
On May 14 2011 10:21 Maliris wrote: its more rude to pay with a huge denomination note, like £100 note at a café or something... I think cashiers are allowed to refuse to accept this though by law, not sure
In my experience shopkeeper's actually want coins, because they usually lack coins and it saves the cashier (at supermarkets) having to go to other tills to get coins for your change. As long as you pre-count at least some of it then I don't think it matters. And if you don't pre-count it, then the only person you're going to piss off is the guy behind you, or the cashier if their lunchbreak is soon or something
See I don't get this. Paying for say, a $3 item, with a $100 note, is barely any different to paying with a $10 note. There is no extra maths, or thinking involved. The only difference is, instead of just giving them $7 back, you grab an extra $50 and 2 $20s. It takes all of 2 seconds. O.o
It's not really an issue here in Australia, but when I was back home in Belfast visiting family a year or so ago, my cousin stressed not to pay for small stuff with a £50 because people would hate me for it. I inevitably ended up with only £50s left and had to buy a £1.50 card or something, got the dirtiest look from the cashier. Must be a cultural thing I guess.
Speaking on which, I have never seen a £100 note, do they even exist?
You ever worked retail? Your drawer is never allowed to have much money in it...breaking a 100 is impossible if you've dropped money into the safe recently.
On May 14 2011 10:21 Maliris wrote: its more rude to pay with a huge denomination note, like £100 note at a café or something... I think cashiers are allowed to refuse to accept this though by law, not sure
In my experience shopkeeper's actually want coins, because they usually lack coins and it saves the cashier (at supermarkets) having to go to other tills to get coins for your change. As long as you pre-count at least some of it then I don't think it matters. And if you don't pre-count it, then the only person you're going to piss off is the guy behind you, or the cashier if their lunchbreak is soon or something
See I don't get this. Paying for say, a $3 item, with a $100 note, is barely any different to paying with a $10 note. There is no extra maths, or thinking involved. The only difference is, instead of just giving them $7 back, you grab an extra $50 and 2 $20s. It takes all of 2 seconds. O.o
It's not really an issue here in Australia, but when I was back home in Belfast visiting family a year or so ago, my cousin stressed not to pay for small stuff with a £50 because people would hate me for it. I inevitably ended up with only £50s left and had to buy a £1.50 card or something, got the dirtiest look from the cashier. Must be a cultural thing I guess.
Speaking on which, I have never seen a £100 note, do they even exist?
You ever worked retail? Your drawer is never allowed to have much money in it...breaking a 100 is impossible if you've dropped money into the safe recently.
Yes, I work 2 jobs one of which is as a bar tender for the last 2.5 years. $100s are absolutely no problem. :/
See I don't get this. Paying for say, a $3 item, with a $100 note, is barely any different to paying with a $10 note. There is no extra maths, or thinking involved. The only difference is, instead of just giving them $7 back, you grab an extra $50 and 2 $20s. It takes all of 2 seconds. O.o
It's not really an issue here in Australia, but when I was back home in Belfast visiting family a year or so ago, my cousin stressed not to pay for small stuff with a £50 because people would hate me for it. I inevitably ended up with only £50s left and had to buy a £1.50 card or something, got the dirtiest look from the cashier. Must be a cultural thing I guess.
Speaking on which, I have never seen a £100 note, do they even exist?
When I worked at a small store about 2-3 years ago I found it extremely annoying when people would pay for a $5 with a $100 note. The main reason being that at the start of the day you are only supposed to have $400 of cash in register (this includes back up supply of coins so in reality its more lik $200). If someone pays with a $100 note and takes all the cash you have it becomes an inconvenience and it looks bad when you have to give someone $15 worth of loonies and toonies. However paying with coins I never really minded, but if you ever have to cash out at the end of the day, the less dimes you have to count the happier you are.
its not rude, but it is annoying and inconvenient for others. You can always go into a local convenient store (preferably a grocery store) and ask to replace your coins with actual cash. More often then not they will give you cash for your coins because as it turns out most transactions are with cash and they usually always have to get rolls of coins from banks, so giving them coins can save them time.
The other thing you can do is go to a coin star or some other machine that trades coins for vouchers where you can get cash.
It's not rude at businesses but rude if it's a person to person transaction and you don't give them a heads up, e.g. you buy an ipod on craigslist and show up with $40 in quarters.
I get a little embarrassed when I pay with pure coin. Plus, it annoys me when someone in front of me is searching their stupid little coin purse for the right amount of change.
i saw a youtube video once, of this guy getting his car towed, he was pretty pissed and he thought it was irrational to tow his car away, so he payed like 400 usd(?) in quarters, he brought like 3 buckets/tubs full of quaters... the receptionist wouldnt take it (i assume it was because she cbf'd counting it all) so the guy called the cops and said she wouldnt accept legal tender....
he got his car back!
imo its not really rude if u do stuff like meals and such..i just tell the waiter/waitress that im getting rid of all my change xD but it definately is rude when u hand them 5 fucking buckets full.
On May 14 2011 10:21 Maliris wrote: its more rude to pay with a huge denomination note, like £100 note at a café or something... I think cashiers are allowed to refuse to accept this though by law, not sure
In my experience shopkeeper's actually want coins, because they usually lack coins and it saves the cashier (at supermarkets) having to go to other tills to get coins for your change. As long as you pre-count at least some of it then I don't think it matters. And if you don't pre-count it, then the only person you're going to piss off is the guy behind you, or the cashier if their lunchbreak is soon or something
See I don't get this. Paying for say, a $3 item, with a $100 note, is barely any different to paying with a $10 note. There is no extra maths, or thinking involved. The only difference is, instead of just giving them $7 back, you grab an extra $50 and 2 $20s. It takes all of 2 seconds. O.o
It's not really an issue here in Australia, but when I was back home in Belfast visiting family a year or so ago, my cousin stressed not to pay for small stuff with a £50 because people would hate me for it. I inevitably ended up with only £50s left and had to buy a £1.50 card or something, got the dirtiest look from the cashier. Must be a cultural thing I guess.
Speaking on which, I have never seen a £100 note, do they even exist?
It has nothing to do with math, it has to do with your ability to make change afterward. I used to work for an ATT store as a customer service rep. The sales reps had $200 drawers and the CS Reps had $100 drawers, meaning that's all we had when we opened our drawer and at the end of our shift anything over that amount got put in the deposit bag for the bank. If you happen to have had a lot of customers paying cash that day (which is a rare thing), large bills aren't such a big deal. On the other hand, if the first customer of the day comes in wanting to give you a $100 bill, you've got to give them probably $10+ in coins and then it's impossible to make change after that. In a pinch you can buy change from someone else's drawer but then that leaves them in the same position.
Coins, on the other hand, are a godsend because you're usually short. We were just a little store so, if we needed money, one of us had to drive to the bank and get it...no armored car deliveries for us. Having to run to the bank messed up salesfloor coverage, interfered with people being able to take breaks, etc. Sure it's more annoying to count but it makes life much easier in the long run.
Its situational ya know. Paying in pennies is one thing, paying with quarters is another and giving someone $4.37 in various coins when there are 12 people behind you and you're buying a galleon of milk is a dick move.
It can be very rude. I went to my rival schools halloween dance and bought my way in with all pennies. 300 pennies and the lady just said yeah i trust ya didn't even count them (i wanted her to count them so i was dissapointed).
i did a lot of stupid things when i was younger. but now that i look back on this i realize the joke was on me for counting 300 pennies and then have the lady just trust me. I should have only counted 200 she would have not known the difference.
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