To ask why people feel the need to sell their new £5 notes

[Helloitsme87]

For more than their actual worth.
Someone on a Facebook selling site is seeking 4 of these notes for £100. They are worth £20. It's really starting to grate on me.
Disclaimer. I am drunk and totally overreacting

It's ridiculous isn't it. A couple of weeks ago someone sold an upside down £5 for thousands!! Fools and their money are soon parted!!

Cos some douchebags will buy them!

but honestly. These people actually think they are worth something. It is FIVE pounds. No more, no less. Just use the bloody things and be done.

Pink! Hahaha I saw this and found it hilarious upside down notes are clearly a goldmine

Because idiots will actually pay more for them! My dh sold one for £25. Madness

I think the original ones being sold were due to serial numbers or maybe down to money laundering perhaps?

The ones now are trying to capitalise on that with their regular notes.

The ones with AK47 and AK74 are worth a mint to wannabe ganstas.

An AK47 only got £10 on eBay last week. Seems hardly worth the bother.

"These people actually think they are worth something. It is FIVE pounds."

Well to be fair, cash is an imaginary system anyway, the notes themselves aren't worth anything, we all just pretend they have a fixed value...

That was very Moist of you, tabulahrasa

AK47 followed by a myriad of inconsequential numbers. Someone trying to sell it on fb. Wanker. I was pleased to see the replies basically saying, mate, don't be a knob

People are still selling them.

I gave two to a mate a few weeks back (owed her a tenner) and kept apologising because they didn't look like real money.

Someone on FB was asking how much their fiver was worth because the serial number started AK45. I and others soon put them straight. Idiots.

On a similar note people on Ebay were selling £2 coins for £1. I kid you not.

I sold a 50p for £48 last month.

I don't get it either but if someone is daft enough to pay a shit load of money for a £5 note then why not

If people are stupid enough to buy them, let others sell them.

I'm also drunk and now completely bemused.

I kind of get the AK47 ones but there are loads on eBay with apparently inconsequential serial crumblers for about £300. Are these being sold by chancers, or am I missing something?

Ah hem. Serial numbers. I'd have a lot more time for serial crumblers, especially if blackberry and apple was involved.

I have a Peter Rabbit 50p piece. It is very cute and DH insists it's worth more than it's face value. It's not, is it?

SpeckledyBanana he's right, it is worth more than 50p! I had one and the women in the pound shop wouldn't take it as she said I could get money for to.

DP sold it for £75...

Ohhhh I have 2 peter rabbit 50p's

Lol and what about postage on ebay, is that another fiver on top? I too am always baffled by it all

If you don't want one, don't buy one.

It is silly isnt it. I read that someone on ebay forgot to put a reserve on their £5 note and it sold for less than that

£75?

Would eBay be a good place to sell it?