Never accept a $100 bill even if it was real.
Few places will accept it when you try to buy something.
What a miserable weekend
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Never accept a $100 bill even if it was real.
Few places will accept it when you try to buy something.
Cash is king.
Was it the old style 100s you had? Those are popular to fake because they didn't have strips or water marks. Have read articles where they "bleach out" lower denomination bills and re-print them in 100 denomination.
I don’t carry $20s and I don’t get them from the ATM.
Too little value in $20s. A few hundred in 20s is a big fat lump in my wallet.
$50 bills are well accepted and take up a lot less room in my wallet.
I don’t use credit cards often. For a while, I was having to get a new card every six months due to fraud, even with chip and PIN. I have my cards in an RFID blocking wallet. A huge pain to replace the card that often.
Even with travel notices, my banks (I have three) often decline foreign transactions.
Every time I hand my card over, it is at risk.
Apple Pay fixed that. I generally use ApplePay now, when traveling and overseas.
Or cash. I’ve got a fair amount of cash in my kit bag.
Until you’re on a snowy road, in a rural state, and the tow truck driver only takes cash.
Or need a cab in a foreign country, and the driver only takes cash.
Sure, I use Uber, but there are times when cash, and only cash, allows you to complete the transaction.
“No need for cash“ is a first world perspective.
I always carry cash with me, up to $200 at any given time. I never use it but I have it. Old habit I guess.
Heck, I go to the stores sometimes and I dont even take my wallet out anymore.
Just realized that in the last few months, I pay everything with my iPhone and NOW I dont even take the iPhone out of my back pocket and I pay with my Apple Watch.
I always used to pay all cash, when I have smaller bills I will leave cash tips for the waiter or waitresses but charge the tab. Otherwise EVERYTHING goes on our credit cards for one reason, EVERYTHING we buy we get anywhere from 2% to 5% cash back. I save it to buy stuff I may not normally buy but lately with all the Credit Card offers and cash back that we get we came close to just shy of $2000 cash back last year and I dont even know what to spend it on. YET
) I feel like its a perk and dont want to waste it by depositing it in the bank even though my wife deposited some of her cash back just recently...
Having good credit pays you back over and over. Multiple offers we took up from credit cards in the last year added another $800 to our accounts in cash back just for signing up for the credit cards, 2 for my wife and 2 for me. Now Chase wants to give me $350 to open a checking account with them. Im still on the fence if I want to bother with that one only because I would cancel it after a few months, after getting the $350.
Heck, I go to the stores sometimes and I dont even take my wallet out anymore.
Just realized that in the last few months, I pay everything with my iPhone and NOW I dont even take the iPhone out of my back pocket and I pay with my Apple Watch.
I always used to pay all cash, when I have smaller bills I will leave cash tips for the waiter or waitresses but charge the tab. Otherwise EVERYTHING goes on our credit cards for one reason, EVERYTHING we buy we get anywhere from 2% to 5% cash back. I save it to buy stuff I may not normally buy but lately with all the Credit Card offers and cash back that we get we came close to just shy of $2000 cash back last year and I dont even know what to spend it on. YET
) I feel like its a perk and dont want to waste it by depositing it in the bank even though my wife deposited some of her cash back just recently...Having good credit pays you back over and over. Multiple offers we took up from credit cards in the last year added another $800 to our accounts in cash back just for signing up for the credit cards, 2 for my wife and 2 for me. Now Chase wants to give me $350 to open a checking account with them. Im still on the fence if I want to bother with that one only because I would cancel it after a few months, after getting the $350.
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It’s maddening when you find out you’ve been carrying around counterfeit money. It happens, and you did right by correcting the mixup. 
I am wondering, how did you get $100 back as change? Did you return something, or exchange 5 $20 bills for a $100 bill?
I am wondering, how did you get $100 back as change? Did you return something, or exchange 5 $20 bills for a $100 bill?
I am wondering, how if OP sure the bill he got back is the one he paid with? The rule has always been, get rid of the old maid. Could the bar owner have gotten rid of an old maid by passing it off to OP? I always rub the shoulder of Ben on hundreds with a fingernail. It should feel like corduroy.
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Because you have no experience with it...
I can understand, but cash is still king with some transactions. Fuel discounts are just one aspect of that.
At 10,000 miles per month, that discount adds up to some very nice lunches!
At the right restaurant, try putting a $20 on the table and hand it to the server when ordering. Watch how good the service is, and how delicious and ample your food becomes.
I get them all the time from my tenants. I usually just deposit them at the bank and have yet to get a fake one. I prefer the $100's over the $20's, those take forever to count and I always count it in front of the tenant so sometimes it takes a while if it's all 20's. I had a tenant once from overseas that was paying first, last and security plus broker fee and it was almost 10k. He also did 20's so it took a long while.
As for spending $100s, if you're a regular there, they give you a funny look maybe and they take it. Or it's good at restaurants.
I was at a McDonalds once and a kid walked up to me asking for change for a $50. It had a funny look to it and I declined and asked him why he just didn't try it with the cashier. Those fast food places will sometimes take a large bill sometimes too. I'd never make change for a stranger.
I did NOT use the fake $100 for the 13th?? Time. I got it as change. SMH!!
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This used to not always be the case.
I'm a truck driver with a passport and these are all fake scenarios that don't exist anymore. Visited Serbia and Jamaica last year. There's also nothing wrong with a first world perspective because I live in the first world.
Can you run it by us a second time? You got the $100 as change at a store. How do you get a $100 bill as change? I guess when you get change next time you won't accept $100 bills? Also in your first post, it sounds like you paid with the $100 bill and they called you about it and then gave it back to you later although how you could be sure it was your bill and not some scam from someone else working there? There's a story of how a worker swapped real cash for counterfeit. Are you sure you weren't scammed? If they don't catch it on the spot, how can you really be sure it was you that passed it?
https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article258111798.html
I was a cashier in high school and a car washer that earned tips. I have plenty of experience with it haha. Cash at this point is just a hobby for old people, and that is okay. They like the theater of it. They like pulling it out and counting it and saying keep the change and all that, or arguing about returned change. It's just something old people enjoy.
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Let's see what would I rather have a plastic gift card or cash.....
Cash......Gift cards to me are a joke.
And they were a joke when I was your age... Cash is king...
The plastic ain't fantastic...
But hey it's all good right...?
Cash is king. Here on out any large bill I get: it’s gettin checked at my credit union. No if and or buts
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