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Hi,

Yesterday i left my work at tea break and went to a shop for a couple of rolls on sausage, i paid with a new queens jubilee £10 note i got from a cash machine the night before and got my change back.

Today i walked into the same shop and ordered the same order and was bluntly told that the £10 i handed in yesterday was fake, they said the colour was smudged and that a line had been drawn where the silver strip should be and got asked if i would like to pay the money back to the persons boss.

I was quite taken aback as the shop was full of customers and i wasn`t ready to argue about it so i said fine, i will take it back to the bank and ask them to scan it to be sure, i got the £10 note back and went into my pocket to get money out to cover them.....i gave them 5 pound coins and a £5 note which i received as change the day before and the person held the £5 up to the light ...tore it a bit then said that it was fake as well!

Everyone in the shop was looking at me and i had a brass neck.

I took the £10 and £5 note to the door and held them up to the sunlight and could see the silver strip in both of them so tore it a bit and took it back in to show them and they still said it was defo fake notes.

I ended up going to the bank and asking them to check them for me and they were both fine.

So i have been annoyed all day and night about this as i am a very genuine and generous person and don`t like to be looked apon  like that, i wasted my teabreak  by running to the bank without any breakfast. I will be going back into the shop tomorrow to give them 10 pound coins and tell them they were wrong but i doubt they will believe me.

Get £10 in pennies from the bank.  Say loudly to them you checked the notes with the bank and they said they were fine but you don`t want to be accused of anything underhand so...

EDIT: I know it might be a bit of a faff, but if you start getting weird treatment in a shop, make a note of serial numbers on your notes, especially higher denominations and then if they try something like substituting a note you`ve got them.  An assistant in our local chemist screwed me over with a £20 giving me change for a £10 a while back.  Of course the till reconciled when they cashed up that night so I lost the money.  Now I don`t tender cash for more than £5 and if I have to use paper money above £10, I make a note of serials.  Paranoid I know but I`m not affluent enough to be able to shrug off losses.

J Mark Oates

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This item was edited on Sunday, 30th September 2012, 01:05

I am so bloody stubborn I would have demanded they call the police just to prove them wrong

I`d have 5*!t through the letterbox


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This item was edited on Sunday, 30th September 2012, 08:59

Go back in when they`re nice and busy, don`t bother waiting in the queue and start shouting for the manager and an apology.

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I used to be with it, but then they changed what `it` was.
Now, what I`m with isn`t it, and what`s `it` seems weird and scary

as above goin at lunchtime when they are busy and demand to see the manager, if a chain get details of the area manager, and head office and write a letter or complaint, with details of the memebr of staff, details of the notes and that the bank confirmed them to be genuine.

Perhaps the assistant has an issue with you? Make sure that you bring this to the attention of the aforementioned, they may have previous for it???
  
I personally would never step foot in the place again, you earn your money, spend it where you get decent product/service. 

Once sorted, I would never return to that shop if I was you, and tell all not to use it.

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An assistant in our local chemist screwed me over with a £20 giving me change for a £10 a while back.

Same thing done to my mother-in-law at poundland with a new sales person, and we were outside at the time so did not see it happening, but she called us in and we waited to see the till balance and it did add up according to the manageress, so the sales person had done a switch-a-roo, and replaced her tenner for my mother-in-laws twenty into the till. Just waiting for `a dithering old person`, who would not complain.

So we had no option, to either call in the police to seach her there and then, or forget it, and my mother-in-law did not want a fuss, so we left,

We tell mother-in-law now to say loudly to any salesperson that she is handing a twenty over, and show the sales person it in front of their eyes, and get them to acknolwedge it, before handing over  

PS..that poundland dodgy sales woman got her books the following week, assume caught doing the switch-a-roo again. But you really have to watch nowadays, Britain used to be so honest with cash transactions at shops but not so much now with this recession.

I`d definitely not return to the shop... Always make a point now when I`m handing over notes to say "There`s a five / ten / twenty etc"... even if there`s nobody else but me and the assistant, it makes them aware that I know exactly how much I`ve just handed over.

Yes its a pity there`s no longer trust, but it is the world we live in now.

I handed the money in and said that t
he cash was real but they never responded so just left, I should have got the money changed to pennies at the bank.

Cheers for the replies!