Did you hear the one about the irish businessman who accepted a toy eur 100 note?

[northernladuk]

I thought Euros were monoply money anyway

Maybe but it's much cheaper monopoly money than it was a few months ago!

[MicrosoftBob]

I thought Euros were monoply money anyway

[d000hg]

€100 isn't worth much more than a sandwich these days

[xoggoth]

Good idea. Got several charity shops in town, mostly staffed by short sighted old ladies. Sure I could get a used jacket for one of my Monopoly notes.

[vetran]

I think plod needs an understanding of how business works (although in the case of this business he might have a point). They could only be 100 euro down if the sandwich was sold for nothing and they also changed the ELC note for real money.

indeed they charge €100 for a sandwich they would probably give change. So if the sandwich was €4 then they gave €96 change and lost the cost and profit of the sandwich.

so plod of course is wrong they are at maximum €100 down. Scary that anyone would let them out.

[barrydidit]

Clearly no checks were done on this note and that business is now 100 euro down plus the value of the goods it was used to 'pay' for!

I think plod needs an understanding of how business works (although in the case of this business he might have a point). They could only be 100 euro down if the sandwich was sold for nothing and they also changed the ELC note for real money.

[MyUserName]

When I was a cashier the petrol station didn't really care if you accepted duff notes. They just took it out of your pay.

Although I caused a scene once when I refused to accept a ten pound note which had been ripped and then taped back together. They guy and his girlfriend demanded to know why a different place accepted it and were perplexed when I said they probably had a different note checking policy and how could somewhere have accepted it if they still had it?

I hated that job.

[VectraMan]

It is understood it was used to buy a sandwich in a fast food outlet.

Must be a good sandwich.

[SueEllen]

Lots of the larger shops/chains have pictures of larger denomination notes at the tills for the cashier to see and often two people are needed to verify the note is genuine.

I know smaller shops in England have refused to accept Scottish notes and others refuse to accept £50 notes. So the business could have just refused to accept the note if in doubt.

[BrilloPad]

BBC News - Kids' toy 100 euros note accepted by business in Newry