EPTPaying in Coins - Rude or not? - Page 19
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Bibdy
United States3481 Posts
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Rodregeus
Australia126 Posts
On June 08 2011 22:59 piegasm wrote: 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. That problem has more to do with tiny drawer size. My registers easily have $300 just in $50s at any given time. Also if I DO run out, I can just go to the safe. :/ Maybe people should consider getting a safe. | ||
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manawah
123 Posts
We loved to get change cause it kept us from having to make a trip to the bank for change. | ||
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Nuri
New Zealand280 Posts
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DeepElemBlues
United States5079 Posts
If you're trying to save bills and always have exact change, hell, that's damn polite. The only thing you need to do is have your change counted out and divided into dollar amounts beforehand, that's just common courtesy. Back in the good old high school days when I was working fast food someone tried to pay for a $3 dollar order with all pennies and asked me to help him count, and got offended when I said "do it yourself." I probably would have helped but he was some snot-nosed 15 year old who looked like a jerk and gave me that "I'm better than you because I don't work in fast food" look, it's not my job to help you count out 300 coins you broke asshole. | ||
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MapleFractal
Canada307 Posts
More on topic with the OP, depends on the circumstance if your holding up a lot of people like 3+ probably a bit rude, on the other hand I would purposely pay in change if a clerk was being a dick. Cause well, I find it funny. | ||
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Razvy
United States132 Posts
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Indenial
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goiflin
Canada1218 Posts
On June 10 2011 04:24 Indenial wrote: Why are you even eating out, if you cant afford it? I think 11 years of loose change saved up qualifies you as being able to afford eating out. | ||
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Indenial
29 Posts
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Deja Thoris
South Africa646 Posts
This is mildly entertaining In the US any amount in coins counts as legal tender — but there is no law that forces shops and other retailers to accept them. That means businesses can ask for payment in any denomination they want. But where would you stand if you decided to pay up in pence in the UK? Well, it's come up. Back in 2006 Michael Rees of Tonteg, South Wales, was told he could no longer keep paying his £650 debt in instalments of 4,000 penny pieces (as he had been for months). Meanwhile in 2009, Gary Southall tried to settle a £1,300 fine with a shopping trolley full of 1p pieces — he was also refused. According to the Coinage Act of 1971, 1ps and 2ps are only legal tender up to the value of 20p. But that doesn't mean you can't pay more than that in pennies if the person or business you're paying agrees. Legal tender has a very narrow meaning in the UK. Put simply, you can't be successfully sued for non-payment of a debt if you give the correct amount of money in legal tender. That's it. Everything else is up to the two parties involved in the transaction. And fans of wacky ways to protest can take heart from one thing: £1 and £2 coins are legal tender up to any amount you like. Even if they're frozen in ice or put in a bathtub full of honey. | ||
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JLew
Canada353 Posts
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mordek
United States12705 Posts
On June 10 2011 04:32 Indenial wrote: Yeah, well he's using his savings for it, they wont last forever. I'm in agreeance with not going out to eat if you can't afford it but it definitely sounds like the OP lives with his parent's (he can't drive) and so really he's just spending discretionary income. He did run out so I see your point... but it's not exactly like his change collection is what's going to put him through his first semester of college  OT: Not rude if you organize it for them. What to do with pennies? Glue them together into a statue or piece of art. I've always wanted to make mine into a penny tree but I've never bothered to do it... | ||
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semantics
10040 Posts
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keeblur
United States826 Posts
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SixPackAbs
United States160 Posts
you know that banks will change it to cash for you, for free? And if your bank won't, then coinstar charges like 6 cents per dollar. Its less rude when you split it into stacks, but they still have to count it, they can't just believe you. | ||
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Surth
Germany456 Posts
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TemplarKR
29 Posts
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BoilOlo
United States139 Posts
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Seam
United States1093 Posts
On June 10 2011 04:24 Indenial wrote: Why are you even eating out, if you cant afford it? Technically, if you have it in even pennies you can afford it. Money is money is money. | ||
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