interesting experience at fuel/convenience station

[dishdude]

- not a reply to you personally dish, just a general response

Absolutely If they are NOT equipped to detect fraud Benjamin's or you are trying to move an old series.

Like I stated before, I always ask out of courtesy, If you are so full of yourself your entitlement, whip out that fancy 'Mercun Expresso Gold card and wow the chicks in line behind you

With the latest anti counterfeit "tech" bills a clerk - if trained - can just look for three things: the watermark, the security thread and the ink shifting on the inkwell image.

Many may not even recognize a modern 100 - they appear like foreign currency,

The Benjamin Franklin wasn't the issue here, the store would not provide change and wanted payment in the exact amount only.

 

[SC Maintenance]

Years ago I took the family to five guys and gave the a $50. It was the new style - they have been around for a while. The cashier said it was fake. I said no it isn't - but just give it back, and I will pay with a card. She said she can't give it back - they must keep it.

Said OK, but I would like to speak to manager. She said he was out but would be back shortly. Didn't want food spat in, so paid CC, said nothing, sat down. Luckily the manager arrived, returned my bill, and apologized profusely before my food came, because the instant my food arrived I was going to call the non emergency police line and ask for deputy to come - I needed someone charged with theft.

 

[ARCOgraphite]

The Benjamin Franklin wasn't the issue here, the store would not provide change and wanted payment in the exact amount only.

That is weird. I was thinking she was making excuses to not take the 100. Maybe not.

I would have asked, Why can't you make change? Empty till? Can't perform basic addition and subtraction under duress? Calculator battery died? Earth beads fall off the Abacus?

Gas stations more that not around here often have signs up near the register "No bills bigger than TWENTY or "NEED Ones!"
Another reason I moved to CC exclusively. Never a debit card for general transactions. Don't want security or fraud issues with my checking account! I only use my debit at my home bank kiosk. Maybe once in a while on one of those 3 dollar charge portable ATM. I gotta stop doing that!

 

[scoot]

Have you ever encountered a business that accepts cash but refuses to make change?

I keep 40-50 bucks in wallet , 99% of the time I use credit card , rarely debit card . I never have a issue making a purchase .. Never

 

[mk378]

If they are using a drop safe properly, there will be only small bills in the register drawer to make change. This reduces what they might lose in a robbery. Any time someone pays with a $20 or larger bill (if they even accept them) it should go right into the safe.

 

[ArrestMeRedZ]

Wonder what they would have done if Chris gave them the $100 and said all on pump #2, then after pumping $60, came back in for change? Give him the $100 back and siphoned the gas out of his tank?

 

[mk378]

There was offer acecptance and payment for $100 worth of gas at the current price. It's not the station's problem that he doesn't have space in the tank to hold it. Could come back and take the rest in another car or some gas cans.

 

[ArrestMeRedZ]

There was offer acecptance and payment for $100 worth of gas at the current price. It's not the station's problem that he doesn't have space in the tank to hold it. Could come back and take the rest in another car or some gas cans.

I take it you've never prepaid cash for gas before? If you are filling up, you overpay and go back for the difference in cash.

 

[SC Maintenance]

I take it you've never prepaid cash for gas before? If you are filling up, you overpay and go back for the difference in cash.

They could conceivably give you a store credit or gift card. I never have though.

 

[BobsArmory]

I have a bunch of these $2 bills. I wonder what would happen if I brought these to the gas station!
I also have this 1928 $20 bill that says redeemable in gold but I don't think I"ll Spend that at the gas station.

 

[mk378]

I take it you've never prepaid cash for gas before? If you are filling up, you overpay and go back for the difference in cash.

That is not something that a store is required to do though, especially since the customer was told in advance that no change will be given on large bills.
Counterfeiting rings are not so interested in collecting free merchandise. What they really want is to get real money as change.

 

[Klutch9]

Sort of off topic, but I remember years ago I paid cash for food somewhere, and the person giving me my change gave me too much. Like a dollar more back than I should have gotten. I insisted that they take back the extra they gave me, but they couldn’t understand and just told me to keep it haha.

I despise using cash though. Hate carrying it, hate using it, don’t want loose change. We have a local coney place that’s cash only, so I keep some cash on me for places like that and for emergencies. But it’s just a pain.

 

[barryh]

I'm trying to remember when I last paid cash for anything and I can't. Cash is on the way out. It's really quite rare now to see someone paying cash at a fuel station or in a supermarket. No question that the checkout person struggles a bit with making change because they get very little practice at it these days. There is one shop in our local town that takes cash only but they do have sign outside to that effect so fair enough.

Cash for goods or cash in hand for services is something that governments don't want because it's open to tax evasion. While I understand small retailers concern about credit card charges they could take a debit card or phone payment instead. It costs them money to deposit cash at the bank and that's a reason why some places won't take cash. They don't want the hassle, security risk and cost of dealing with it.

A mainly cashless society is what it is but I'm in two minds about it in one sense. How do young people learn to manage their money when they are just tapping a card reader or in most cases using their phone to pay.

 

[ARCOgraphite]

That is not something that a store is required to do though, especially since the customer was told in advance that no change will be given on large bills.
Counterfeiting rings are not so interested in collecting free merchandise. What they really want is to get real money as change.

A couple decades ago, when hi res scanners became popular, there were a ton of ink jet printed twenty's going around town here. It appears from what a clerk showed me, they printed each side (obverse/reverse) on cotton bond and glued them together and it appears with some they distressed the bills with torn corners, wrinkles and pen writing and coffee stains(!) The video rental store clerk (owner actually) got in a tizzy when I handed her a crisp twenty from the ATM and I said jokingly, " I just printed it, I hope the ink is dry". Then She told me stories about getting counterfeit money and refused to take my real bill(!) Luckily I had a ten in the car (hidden emergency gas money)and payed with that. Crazy stuff.

 

[spackard]

https://rebelstores.com/contact/
Store number is 111REBEL

 

[Rmay635703]

Understood….. but many businesses don’t want to accept $100 bills.

Not your fault.

It’s kind of wierd a $50 is like the new $10 bill, so I carry $50’s which some stores still don’t like but belatedly accept.

With the low value of money hundreds are about right for convience yet nobody wants a them. $200 bills would honestly be helpful but never gonna happen with the constant laundering threat

Have you ever encountered a business that accepts cash but refuses to make change?

Yes McDonalds but it was clearly posted.

 

[oldhp]

That's ridiculous, I would have gone Karen. Had something similar happen a few years ago trying to return a rental car before a flight in Portland. It's illegal to pump your own gas in Oregon, so I pull up and they ask how much gas I want.

Me - Fill it up
Attendant - How much gas do you want?
Me - It's a rental car I need to return it full, fill it up.
A - I need to know how much gas you want?
Me - As much as it takes to fill the tank completely!
A - I need a dollar amount.

That was the end of my patience and I left.

"Ok, I need $200 worth of fuel." His problem now.