I've been stung..

EdgarAllenPoo

...not by an insect but by a shop assistant.


I was getting some milk and bread and the like in my local Supervalu, I got handed my change and thought nothing of it, it was the correct amount.

When I got home I emptied my pockets to discover that I've been given bloody turkish coins (what should have been €10).


I know it's turkish currency because when my brother went on holiday there two years ago he brought back his change (as you do).

Now I can't use them (and they're worth practically nothing on exchange) but at the same time if I go back to the shop they'll deny it giving them to me.

Has this happened to anyone else?

Here's what I'm talking about

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ryG9DqUflLUghM:http://www.darphane.gov.tr/ted.%2520paralar/50kurus.gif

Nothingcompares

you can always try explaining this to the shop. if they tell you to fo try and **** them into vending machine or parking meters.

Cuddlesworth

Yes, go back to the shop and find the manager. Say that staff gave out fake coins. Do you relise how serious a matter that is?

EdgarAllenPoo

Nothingcompares wrote:

you can always try explaining this to the shop. if they tell you to fo try and **** them into vending machine or parking meters.

You can't use them in machines here, apart from the fact it's illegal the coins are a different weight to euros.

Trojan911

GDM wrote:

...not by an insect but by a shop assistant.


I was getting some milk and bread and the like in my local Supervalu, I got handed my change and thought nothing of it, it was the correct amount.

When I got home I emptied my pockets to discover that I've been given bloody turkish coins (what should have been €10).


I know it's turkish currency because when my brother went on holiday there two years ago he brought back his change (as you do).

Now I can't use them (and they're worth practically nothing on exchange) but at the same time if I go back to the shop they'll deny it giving them to me.

Has this happened to anyone else?

Here's what I'm talking about

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ryG9DqUflLUghM:http://www.darphane.gov.tr/ted.%2520paralar/50kurus.gif

Sounds like the shop assistant is on the "Hey Diddle Diddle" (Fiddle). Go back and get a till check done... Definately speak to the manager...

TJ911....

indough

I got one of those as change in a shop before. I just went back in there and spent it, they accepted it

Pinker

boo hoo:eek:

Richard W

Use it on the bus if you can't get your money back.

Rabies

Give it chuggers on Grafton street.

Karoma

Rabies wrote:

Give it chuggers on Grafton street.

Chuggers don't take cash on the streets.


...Dublin Bus take coins.

Black Swan

We get Canadian coins in the States all the time and they are worth less than US. For some reason I have never seen pasos from Mexico.

dfx-

Happened to me ages ago...got given back a five euro note or so I thought.

I found out later that was half a five euro note.:(

Terry

Blue_Lagoon wrote:

We get Canadian coins in the States all the time and they are worth less than US. For some reason I have never seen pasos from Mexico.

How about Pesos?

Remember the British coins were accepted here?
All we see now are French and Spanish ones.

homah_7ft

Blue_Lagoon wrote:

We get Canadian coins in the States all the time and they are worth less than US.

Not any more!

Terry

homah_7ft wrote:

Not any more!

1.00 CAD = 1.00772 USD

1.00 USD = 0.992349 CAD

At current rates.
xe.com/ucc

admiralofthefleet

Richard W wrote:

Use it on the bus if you can't get your money back.

best advice and best place to get rid of it, but also be on the lookout for israeli shekels, they are also more or less identical to €1 coins

homah_7ft

Terry wrote:

1.00 CAD = 1.00772 USD

1.00 USD = 0.992349 CAD

At current rates.
xe.com/ucc

Damn you to hell Terry . In my defence it was stronger for virtually all of September and certainly the days of checking to make sure you don't get a Canadian dollar in your change (in US) are over.

spiritcrusher

I got some of those a while back, didn't know what to do with them but some foreign dude in abakebabra took them no bother at 2 o'clock in the morning (for "food" obviously)...

someothername

dfx- wrote:

Happened to me ages ago...got given back a five euro note or so I thought.

I found out later that was half a five euro note.:(

so you got back €2.50 then???

The Denouncer

Yeah I got a Turkish coin before equivalent of 50c, its recognised in vending machines as €2! So to the OP, feed the change into vending machines.

seamus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_baht

It's a common scam for Irish people now. They go to Thailand, get their hands on as many ten baht coins as they can, then use them as €2 coins. They're pretty much identical in size and weight.

A mate of mine went into a bank in Thailand and bought €200 worth of these things. If he passed them off as €2 coins they were worth €2000 to him. He got pulled up a few times on it by shop assistants and tried to pretend it was a mistake despite having a pocket full of the yokes. I called him an asshole in more words than that.

L1011

South African 5 rand is the worst as you usually get them in pubs or the like and vending machines -never- take them as the 2 euro coin you were passed off as. They're the same colours and size and roughly the same shape.

Rabies

Karoma wrote:

Chuggers don't take cash on the streets.

Throw it at them

Rob_l

I cant remeber which coins but I do remember bringing back thai coins and passing them off as 2 euro coins the look very similiar except the gold coloured metal is in the middle and the silver coloured metal is ont he outer edge.

AS it happens about two years after i passed them off i got given them as change myself in a shop didn't notice until much later

kept them ones then though

Are you sure you just weren't in Turkey anyway?

philstar

Rob_l wrote:

I cant remeber which coins but I do remember bringing back thai coins and passing them off as 2 euro coins the look very similiar except the gold coloured metal is in the middle and the silver coloured metal is ont he outer edge.

AS it happens about two years after i passed them off i got given them as change myself in a shop didn't notice until much later

as the old saying goes..."what goes around comes around"

Shame on you!!......and all other scammers

kittenkiller

Blue_Lagoon wrote:

We get Canadian coins in the States all the time and they are worth less than US. For some reason I have never seen pasos from Mexico.

I think you'll find they're pronounced Pay-sos!

Tar.Aldarion

It's only a tenner, explain it to them.

kev_s88

just go spend them in some other shop..... no one ever looks closely enough at the coins to realis they're not european


even better, go spend them in the same shop you got them. that'll show the slimey f**kers

connundrum

You should go to Turkey and spend the moneh there. Quit yo jibba jabba

limklad

homah_7ft wrote:

Damn you to hell Terry . In my defence it was stronger for virtually all of September and certainly the days of checking to make sure you don't get a Canadian dollar in your change (in US) are over.

You can blame busshy for that, I blame him for everything now, since he has screwed up everything else in the world.

Cheeky_gal

See this is my point....so many foreigners now that even the moneys gettin mixed up! Jaysus wats next!!!

starlight07

What shop was it?! Name and shame my friend!

I went to thailand for the summer, had two 10 baht coins left comin home, the 10 baht coins are exactly like our €2 coins, used one to buy a bar of chocolate and a drink in the airport then the other to get the bus home

Bold I know, and to think I could have changed €20 into 10 baht coins and they would have been worth €200... prob would have got stopped in customs tho.... lol