[arista]

What a Outrage using Scottish Pounds!


[A campaign has been launched to
make Scottish currency legal tender
across the UK after Judy Murray
was told she couldn't buy doughnuts with it.
The 59-year-old coach - and mother of tennis
superstars Andy and Jamie - tried to pay
for two doughnuts at a London bakery
on Sunday, but was told her Scottish currency was not valid.
Murray, whose sons have
won Grand Slam titles including
Wimbledon, tweeted: "When you go
to pay £9 for 2 donuts (yes, really)
in London and your £10 Bank of Scotland
note is refused because "we only take British ones".]


https://news.sky.com/story/london-sh...enner-11690842


[According to the Royal Mint, the phrase "legal tender" is a narrow technical term
referring to the settlement of debts,
and in ordinary transactions both parties can agree to accept "any form of payment".]

[Twosugars]

yup, shops are funny about Scottish notes
ridiculous

[michael21]

What a donut

[Liam-]

9 quid for two donuts? That’s the true scandal here

[Toy Soldier]

Technically it's legal to refuse any note you want to refuse but I don't see why anyone would, as there's never a problem banking them . Doing themselves out of money really.

[Josy]

That's the law

[bitontheslide]

Any shop has the right to refuse money offered if there is a possibility that it may have been forged and with Scottish money the person won't be familiar it and know if it has been forged or not. It's quite possible that the shop assistant would be held responsible for any dodgy money taken

[Oliver_W]

"Et's leegul tenduh!!"

[LeatherTrumpet]

Its nothing more than abject ignorance and poor education by shopkeepers

throw in some xenophobia too

vile

[hijaxers]

Every single time i've used a scottish £20 a manager gets called over to ok it !
Never ceases to amaze me how few people have ever seen one.

They always take them where i shop though , i'd be pretty furious if they refused .

[chuff me dizzy]

Last time we had been to Scotland I had some Scottish notes left when we came home ,the performance in Morrisons checking it was pathetic, she even pressed buzzer for a supervisor to come check !!

[Cherie]

Too right we don't want any of this foreign muck infilterating our pure plastic notes

[LeatherTrumpet]

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

looks well dodgy

[Wizard.]

BUT do they accept English notes in Scotland that's the question!

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Riley.

BUT do they accept English notes in Scotland that's the question!

They accept plenty taxpayer notes

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

Any shop has the right to refuse money offered if there is a possibility that it may have been forged and with Scottish money the person won't be familiar it and know if it has been forged or not. It's quite possible that the shop assistant would be held responsible for any dodgy money taken

Sorry to say it Bots but as the manager of a cash-intensive business, I consider the inability to spot ANY forged note on contact to be an incompetence that requires further training. They are not difficult to spot and anyone who is handling cash regularly should (literally) be able to identify a forged note with their eyes closed.

[Twosugars]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Pretty note.
Robbie Burns, huh?

[LeatherTrumpet]

correct

the People's Poet

[Vicky.]

A fair few shops round here refuse them..we had huge issues when we withdrew cash on a visist to glasgow and half the shops refused them..I didn't know they could tbh. Infact thinking of it, every bar I have worked in said not to take the clydesdale notes because they are so easily forged or something..

[James]

I wonder if Scottish shops take Northern Ireland banknotes? I've never seen them here.

[MTVN]

Scottish notes do seem to be the ones that are faked the most as people know that English staff will be less familiar with them and could probably be quite easily intimidated into accepting them by insisting that 'it's legal tender'

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by James

I wonder if Scottish shops take Northern Ireland banknotes? I've never seen them here.

We can and should take them just like any other sterling bank note; however I would imagine, as with Scottish notes in England, inexperienced staff probably reject them out of fear that they're not "real money".

They're not that common though, I'd say I bank 1 or 2 Irish fivers a week and a very occasional 10/20.

[Livia]

Originally Posted by James

I wonder if Scottish shops take Northern Ireland banknotes? I've never seen them here.

I was listening to the radio earlier and someone said, if you think using Scottish notes in England is tough, try using a Northern Irish note in Scotland.

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by hijaxers

Every single time i've used a scottish £20 a manager gets called over to ok it !
Never ceases to amaze me how few people have ever seen one.

They always take them where i shop though , i'd be pretty furious if they refused .

It's not really about never having seen them, like we were instructed not to accept them for a while. Probably just because people are so unfamiliar with them they're less likely to spot a fake. We have a machine to check all notes are authentic now so it's not such a big deal anymore. But at the moment, we're not allowed to accept Scottish/Irish 50s.