£5 notes
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Topic: £5 notes
Posted By: Daz
Subject: £5 notes
Date Posted: 07-July-2006 at 11:09
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Is it just up in Scotland or all over the UK that £5 notes are virtually a thing of the past. Meaning you end up walking around with about half a tonne of coins in your pocket? Get it sorted shops! ------------- http://smg.photobucket.com/user/silverbeastie/media/Milltek/Sig.jpg.html" rel="nofollow">  2009 E92 M3 - Milltek |
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Posted By: kbannon
Date Posted: 07-July-2006 at 11:14
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Try coming to Ireland where the ATMs will not give out €5 or €10 - only €20 or €50.
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Posted By: Peter Fenwick
Date Posted: 07-July-2006 at 13:32
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£5 notes are getting rarer as most ATMs don't give them out. Don't know why TBH. ------------- Entering an age of Austerity and now driving a Focus Diesel. |
Posted By: Andrew Rolland
Date Posted: 07-July-2006 at 13:36
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Nope t'is just you Daz! I had two fivers in my pocket yesterday but now they aren't there Don't you mean £1 notes, now that is a note you don't see anymore. I know what you K, when we went to France a few years back, of I went to the money swap shop in Glasgow Airport only to be given a bundle of €50 notes that no shop or tourist attraction in Paris (yes major city in France) would want to take. Next time when we went to one of the Canary Islands I refused to accept €50 notes from aforementioned shop as we had so much bother in Paris. Got a rather rude look from the girl behind the desk though. When will they get it in their thick heads that nobody wants huge notes. The equivalent is like walking into a shop here to buy something and trying to pay with a something equivalent (if there ever was such a thing) as a £30 note! You would get told to Andrew ------------- Be exclusive and drive a Petrol 5 Series! Current '13 62 F10 535i MSport Auto Previous '04 04 E60 545i SE Auto '03 53 E60 545i SE Auto (Stolen) '98 S E39 523i SE Auto |
off!Posted By: kbannon
Date Posted: 07-July-2006 at 13:43
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Strangely, when in France recently the ATMs tended to give out €10 and €20 rather than €50. I reckon part of it is the banks trying to encourage spending! ------------- Current: 2009 E60 520d "Sport" tractor Previous: 1989 E30 320i SE 1997 E39 523i 2003 E39 525i Sport Individual |
Posted By: Bigian
Date Posted: 07-July-2006 at 18:15
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you get plenty in Aberdeen and surrounding areas ------------- If you can't be good don't get caught -------------------------- |
Posted By: Horsetan
Date Posted: 08-July-2006 at 00:00
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That's right. Modern Ireland uses €10 notes to blow its noses on.... -------------   
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kbannon wrote:Posted By: Robmw
Date Posted: 08-July-2006 at 07:38
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Is this a scottish thing ? Obviously Scottish fivers are a different design ( and there are many of them). Where I live shops refuse to accept them because there are so many. Our ones are widely available here in Essex.
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Posted By: Rossi
Date Posted: 08-July-2006 at 18:53
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The Royal Bank of Scotland printed tribute Jack Nicklaus Scottish five pound notes dated 14th July 2005. These are being collected as a limited number of these are actually in circulation. ------------- |
Posted By: NOISUFNOC
Date Posted: 08-July-2006 at 19:55
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Simple solution send me all your €50 notes and i will exchange them for a nice tatty scottish £5 note. ------------- 528 for now |
Posted By: jamie (e39)528i
Date Posted: 10-July-2006 at 19:32
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I personally couldnt tell a good one from a bad one so just dont take it atall!!! If you are talking about english fivers then i can go weeks with hardly any in the till and then all of a sudden none!!
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Posted By: Aidan316i
Date Posted: 11-July-2006 at 00:05
I learnt that the hard way in letterkenny! €4 for the bus home and I had to give him a €20! ------------- www.ni-bmw.co.uk E46 316i Saloon E36 323i Touring 
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Posted By: Andrew Rolland
Date Posted: 11-July-2006 at 08:27
Isn't that illegal? If you refuse to take a genuine Scottish note that is? There does seem to be a problem sometimes with English shops refusing to accept Scottish money. It is legal tender and it is Pounds Sterling after all! I have been to a post office/shop near Chester (i.e. not that far chuffin' South!!) when I handed over a Royal Bank of Scotland £10 the woman behind the shop counter part wanted to go off and check it at the post office counter to see if it was genuine! Cheek! So I just gave here an English note instead as I was in a hurry. When I have gone to England for work, I have gone to my bank and ask the counter staff especially for English notes and they just look at you funny but then nod in agreement when you tell them that you have had problems before south of the border. Last time when I went to Romford for work (That's Essex or very nearly init Jamie?) I actually went to Glasgow Airport where there is a cash machine that only gives out English notes. I then had no problems. We don't bother to forge fiver's up here, it just isn't worth the hassle for only £5, £20 now that's more like it! Andrew ------------- Be exclusive and drive a Petrol 5 Series! Current '13 62 F10 535i MSport Auto Previous '04 04 E60 545i SE Auto '03 53 E60 545i SE Auto (Stolen) '98 S E39 523i SE Auto |
Posted By: kbannon
Date Posted: 11-July-2006 at 09:01
Show me a shop in England, Scotland or Wales that will accept Northern Irish money. What I find strange is the fact that all the banks can produce their own version of sterling - was it not enought to have a standard version? ------------- Current: 2009 E60 520d "Sport" tractor Previous: 1989 E30 320i SE 1997 E39 523i 2003 E39 525i Sport Individual |
Posted By: Daz
Date Posted: 11-July-2006 at 13:10
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[/QUOTE] you my friend are thinking way too logically and will therefore never get a job in the public sector. be gone with you!! ------------- http://smg.photobucket.com/user/silverbeastie/media/Milltek/Sig.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"> 2009 E92 M3 - Milltek |
Posted By: Doive
Date Posted: 11-July-2006 at 14:24
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It's most amusing to hand over a Northern bank fiver on the mainland. Everyone looks at it like it's moon dust.
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Posted By: IamSpartacus
Date Posted: 11-July-2006 at 15:03
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Isn't that because most of 'em were http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/4117219.stm - nicked a while back? ------------- The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. |
Posted By: jamie (e39)528i
Date Posted: 11-July-2006 at 17:00
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[/QUOTE] I manage a shop in essex and the reason we dont accept any scottish money is because there is so much forged scottish money around
I personally couldnt tell a good one from a bad one so just dont take it atall!!![/QUOTE] [/QUOTE]Isn't that illegal? If you refuse to take a genuine Scottish note that is?I am not sure on this but as long as you state it in the shop you are ok! A bit like the check your change sign. There does seem to be a problem sometimes with English shops refusing to accept Scottish money. It is legal tender and it is Pounds Sterling after all! I have been to a post office/shop near Chester (i.e. not that far chuffin' South!!) when I handed over a Royal Bank of Scotland £10 the woman behind the shop counter part wanted to go off and check it at the post office counter to see if it was genuine! Cheek! So I just gave here an English note instead as I was in a hurry. When I have gone to England for work, I have gone to my bank and ask the counter staff especially for English notes and they just look at you funny but then nod in agreement when you tell them that you have had problems before south of the border. Last time when I went to Romford for work (That's Essex or very nearly init Jamie?)[/QUOTE]What you trying to say we all talk like that!! We don't bother to forge fiver's up here, it just isn't worth the hassle for only £5, £20 now that's more like it! Andrew [/QUOTE]------------- |
Posted By: Doive
Date Posted: 11-July-2006 at 17:11
Very true, but the robbers didn't bother with the bizarre fivers, they just half-hinched loads of 20s, 50s and 100s. That's why the Northern has taken all the old notes out of circulation and introduced new ones. General public can take in old notes and have them changed over, but if a dodgy bloke walks in wanting to change 26 million quid.... ------------- 1987 BMW 525e Lux Auto (sadly deceased) http://www.getfirefox.com - Get Firefox - Ditch Hopeless Inertnet Exploder http://www.doive.co.uk - www.doive.co.uk
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Posted By: NOISUFNOC
Date Posted: 11-July-2006 at 21:36
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And then the same dodgy bloke drives away in a Chevette? Doive hasnt made the last cple of meets, he's been out fishing in his punt.
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Posted By: Aidan316i
Date Posted: 12-July-2006 at 00:24
PMSL! Very true! Yes there was a robbery last crimbo in the bank, and they changed the notes to stop the £26 million being spent. means i've alot of expencive toilet roll in my house now!  ------------- www.ni-bmw.co.uk E46 316i Saloon E36 323i Touring
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Posted By: Horsetan
Date Posted: 12-July-2006 at 18:05
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As I said, Ireland is so wealthy now that you can afford to wipe yer a.r.s.e. with it! -------------
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Posted By: Aidan316i
Date Posted: 12-July-2006 at 23:37
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PMSL If that was the case, insurance wouldn't be murder in the north! ------------- www.ni-bmw.co.uk E46 316i Saloon E36 323i Touring
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Posted By: Horsetan
Date Posted: 13-July-2006 at 12:12
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'tis also murder in the South! -------------
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Posted By: Aidan316i
Date Posted: 13-July-2006 at 14:22
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As I heard chatting to a taxi driver when I was in the south there!
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Posted By: Doive
Date Posted: 13-July-2006 at 15:01
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Insurance in the north is ridiculous, I paid literally half on a BMW 525e in Scotland of what my 65 year old father paid on a 1.6 Astra in Northern Ireland. Stupid money.
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