€100 Note

i_steal_sheep · 11-02-2013 01:40PM #1

*First World Problem Alert*

I happen to have 2 €100 notes in my wallet... and after visiting three different shops over the weekend, not one of them would accept them. In the last shop, when I opened my wallet and produced the note to pay for groceries he just laughed and said 'You don't think I'm going to accept that, do you'? So I left him with the groceries and I went on my way. Are they that unusual that people are so fearful of getting scammed? I'm just going to have to go to Bank at lunch and get them to give me 'small' money! Legal tender is legal tender at the end of the day.

smash · 11-02-2013 01:41PM

I've never had problems using a €100 note

Then again, I only use €500 notes...

antodeco · 11-02-2013 01:41PM

First thing I would say is, how much were you to trying to spend?

Secondly, I doubt very much the guy said that!

Bad Santa · 11-02-2013 01:42PM

I have a similar issue with all my left over gold.

yoyo · 11-02-2013 01:42PM

i_steal_sheep wrote: »

*First World Problem Alert*

I happen to have 2 €100 notes in my wallet... and after visiting three different shops over the weekend, not one of them would accept them. In the last shop, when I opened my wallet and produced the note to pay for groceries he just laughed and said 'You don't think I'm going to accept that, do you'? So I left him with the groceries and I went on my way. Are they that unusual that people are so fearful of getting scammed? I'm just going to have to go to Bank at lunch and get them to give me 'small' money! Legal tender is legal tender at the end of the day.

I had one recently and Tesco accepted it... The guy at the checkout did give it a thorough going over though, I think it's more a fact that having to give change out of a 100 euro note can clear out the till, but Tesco do accept them, well the Rathmines one did anyways..

Nick

seamus · 11-02-2013 01:43PM

Depends on what you were buying. If you went in early in the day to buy €10 worth of groceries with a €100 note, you could wipe out the float in one go.

Many shops have a policy of not taking anything over €50 basically because people generally don't know what a €100 note looks like, so someone could be handing over any old yoke they printed off at home.

FloatingVoter · 11-02-2013 01:44PM

OP, maybe the guy in the shop had some sheep stolen recently. Just a thought.

11-02-2013 01:44PM

I've used a €500 note, although I did get a dirty look. I can't imagine any other reason with the exception of cleaning out the till to refuse.

If you are really having that much trouble go to a bank.

Death and Taxes · 11-02-2013 01:44PM

smash wrote: »

I've never had problems using a €100 note

Then again, I only use €500 notes...

Apple Green Services on the M1 wont accept them either.

poisonated · 11-02-2013 01:45PM

antodeco wrote: »

Secondly, I doubt very much the guy said that!

It's not exactly unbelievable that someone would say it. I suppose you might just have to go to a bank. I didn't have any real problem, your man did look at it a bit longer than usual but that is to be expected.

11-02-2013 01:45PM

It somewhat depends on when you went in. If you went in in the morning, when chances are that a cashier hasn't had much change bar their standard float, then giving change out of a €100 is pretty damned difficult, especially when you didn't spend much. If it really is much of a problem for you, then just go into a bank and ask them to give you notes of a lower denomination - I mean, it obviously bothered you enough to create a thread about it, but not to do something to solve it.

Shenshen · 11-02-2013 01:45PM

My mother had the same problem when she visited me here a while back.
It's a perfectly normal thing in Germany, if you go to an ATM and take out €100, you will get a €100 note most of the time.

We got chatting to a shop keeper, because they had problems accepting the note, and were told that since most of their tills are made in the UK, many of them simply have no option for any values above 50 - apparently there are no £100 notes?

not sure if it's true, it's what we were told. They did manage to enter the transaction by entering it as two €50 transactions.

muff03 · 11-02-2013 01:47PM

I went into a local store over Christmas and was buying a few bits for lunch, about €7 worth. I had only a €100 and my visa, so thinking the girl wouldn't take the cash I used my card. "Sorry, but we don't accept cards for anything under €10" she said. So I said "fair enough, but you'll be breaking €100!" And she did, but she was bulling haha

smash · 11-02-2013 01:47PM

Shenshen wrote: »

We got chatting to a shop keeper, because they had problems accepting the note, and were told that since most of their tills are made in the UK, many of them simply have no option for any values above 50 - apparently there are no £100 notes?

So in any of these shops you can't spend more than €50?

Shenshen · 11-02-2013 01:49PM

smash wrote: »

So in any of these shops you can't spend more than €50?

Not sure... as I said, that was what we were told, it's well possible it was just bull.

davet82 · 11-02-2013 01:49PM

got refused in a topaz with a €200 euro note (sold a car) to buy €20 petrol and smokes, he told me his float in the till was less than the change i would recieve so i paid by laser, no biggie

smash · 11-02-2013 01:49PM

Shenshen wrote: »

Not sure... as I said, that was what we were told, it's well possible it was just bull.

Sounds like it.

11-02-2013 01:50PM

davet82 wrote: »

got refused in a topaz with a €200 euro note (sold a car) to buy €20 petrol and smokes, he told me his float in the till was less than the change i would recieve so i paid by laser, no biggie

There's a €200 note?

biko · 11-02-2013 01:51PM

Had to google what they look like

Shenshen · 11-02-2013 01:52PM

smash wrote: »

Sounds like it.

Yep, quick google shows that the UK does in fact have £100 notes.

Which raises the more interesting question, why are €100 notes such a rare thing in Ireland?

RoyalMarine · 11-02-2013 01:52PM

Shenshen wrote: »

We got chatting to a shop keeper, because they had problems accepting the note, and were told that since most of their tills are made in the UK, many of them simply have no option for any values above 50 - apparently there are no £100 notes?

not sure if it's true, it's what we were told. They did manage to enter the transaction by entering it as two €50 transactions.

£100 only exist in Scotland and N.Ireland.

Dravokivich · 11-02-2013 01:52PM

seamus wrote: »

Depends on what you were buying. If you went in early in the day to buy €10 worth of groceries with a €100 note, you could wipe out the float in one go.

Many shops have a policy of not taking anything over €50 basically because people generally don't know what a €100 note looks like, so someone could be handing over any old yoke they printed off at home.

Even then, a lot of the times, local shops/newsagents will have to constantly throw money into the back office to keep the float down as well. So regardless of when you go in, it's likely you won't be able to get change for it.

TheGoldenAges · 11-02-2013 01:53PM

Since many people haven't seen all the euro notes

http://mindmillion.com/images/money/euro_notes.jpg

smash · 11-02-2013 01:54PM

Shenshen wrote: »

Yep, quick google shows that the UK does in fact have £100 notes.

Which raises the more interesting question, why are €100 notes such a rare thing in Ireland?

I don't know. I don't get it. I've got €100 and €200 notes from ATM's abroad but in Ireland you withdraw €500 and you're usually handed a pile of €20s... it's strange.

davet82 · 11-02-2013 01:55PM

Deleted User wrote: »

There's a €200 note?

yes (its the yellow one) i had a few that day and a couple of €500 euro notes (which are huge things), i loved trying to break the €500 note in shops for the crack (made me feel like a big man :cool:) it wasn't long after the euro's came in either...

spent the the two €500 euro notes in dixons on a technics radio... what waste actually

Shenshen · 11-02-2013 01:56PM

smash wrote: »

I don't know. I don't get it. I've got €100 and €200 notes from ATM's abroad but in Ireland you withdraw €500 and you're usually handed a pile of €20s... it's strange.

I always found the German ones very considerate... if you take out €50, most of the time you will get a tenner and 2 twenties.
So you never have the problems I often have now where you take money out the ATM to buy a bus ticket, and the driver can't make the change.

KTRIC · 11-02-2013 01:56PM

Someone might correct me on this but as far as I recall the €200 and €500 notes were never issued here. It doesn't mean they're not legal tender though which I've been told on numerous occasions in shops.

davet82 · 11-02-2013 01:57PM

smash wrote: »

I don't know. I don't get it. I've got €100 and €200 notes from ATM's abroad but in Ireland you withdraw €500 and you're usually handed a pile of €20s... it's strange.

i withdrew €500 from an ATM in Madeira and it gave them to me in €5 notes so be careful what you wish for!

smash · 11-02-2013 01:58PM

KTRIC wrote: »

Someone might correct me on this but as far as I recall the €200 and €500 notes were never issued here. It doesn't mean they're not legal tender though which I've been told on numerous occasions in shops.

The €500 was decommissioned here because the only people to use them were criminals.

davet82 · 11-02-2013 01:58PM

KTRIC wrote: »

Someone might correct me on this but as far as I recall the €200 and €500 notes were never issued here. It doesn't mean they're not legal tender though which I've been told on numerous occasions in shops.

only place i came across them is guys own car dealerships for some reason, never banks although post office seem to have lots of €100 notes for some reason

john_cappa · 11-02-2013 01:58PM

Changing a 100 euro note doesn't clean out the till any more than breaking a 50 euro note! It's the same amount of small notes and coins needed in change plus a whole 50!

Never had a problem. Do people not know who to check them ffs

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