Is There A Legal Amount

[albaqwerty]

that a shop will not accept in change?

(Inspired by Cloverjo's post)

I suppose it would make sense that a shop could refuse to sell items if it was, say, £20 or more, in small coins, but can a shop refuse to sell if total came to £4 for example and you were paying in a mixture of 5/10/20 p coins?

Have a feeling I'm not wording this Q properly, but hope you get my drift.

[dannyk13]

http://www.royalmint.com/help/help/legal-tender-amounts

[ummmm]

I think they have the right to refuse.

My local shop would welcome it though. They are always running out of change.

Banks don't accept much change in one go.

[Old_Geezer]

They don't ? IMO they should ! They dish it out, who do they think needs to take it back and redistribute it ?

[albaqwerty]

Thanks Danny x
Informative.

Ummm, my local shop likes change too and is much happier if folk bag it.
He's got scales and a list for how much a bag of 1p coins should weigh etc.
Saves him counting it out.

[Old_Geezer]

So if forging pennies make them twice as heavy ;-)

[SIRandyraven]

Banks do accept large amounts of change provided it's counted and in bags.
The most change based that I paid in once was over £6,000.
This was at HSBC.

[albaqwerty]

stop forging them OG :-D

local fruit n veg shop does the same too
(got some strange shop-keepers near me)

[donny48]

Ummmm,
"Banks don't accept much change in one go. "
I must be unlucky in that I have frequently been waiting in a bank whilst someone has brought in bags and bags of coins.

[ummmm]

Andy....Nationwide have a sign up saying they only accept X amount in change.

Albs...when my local shop runs out of change they phone me. I just hand them over my jar and leave them to count it out. :-)

[albaqwerty]

Donny, that would have been SirRandy :-D

[ummmm]

Are they business accounts?

[albaqwerty]

ooops, sorry, put in an extra R :-D

Hope you charge him commission Ummm :-D

[baza]

A man renewed his annual season ticket ( over £2,000 ) and paid with £50 notes, glad he didn't pay with coins.

[donny48]

Ummmm,
They may have been business accounts, it's just my luck though if I go into the Post Office I can be sure that someone in front wants to send a parcel to Outer Mongolia and at the same time wants to check the postage rates for half the planet. xx

[ummmm]

The commission is he counts the change out :-)

[ummmm]

My granddad, a publican, used to bank with Allied Irish. Although he could get better deals elsewhere he stuck with them because 'there's never any fecker in that bank'

[albaqwerty]

Baza, was that you?
Or were you standing behind him?

Donny, I seem to be next in line at the PO when someone in front is faffing about with loads of Q's too.

Ummm, good arrangement :-)

[baza]

alba, I was the poor sod that had to count the notes.

[albaqwerty]

greatest sympathy Baza, a heckuva pain in the tonsils.
(Not not being facetious btw, worked in B&B once and long stay guest came to settle her bill in notes, £20, £10 and fivers. Gawd, strewth!)

[EDDIE51]

I still see my 80 year old friend who refuses to have a bank account and keeps his cash under the mattress. I've tried countless times to get him to open a bank account. I had to take him to buy a new TV set he stood there counting out £499 in cash !