To want to write to Adams head office and get them to explain their "policy"?

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Following on from my "I was asked to elave a shop" thread, I did make it into Adams, and had got some stuff for my neice and my goddaughter etc. it came to something liek £28. SO I ahnded over a £20, and 2 £5. One of which was a Bank of scotland. The woman took teh money, then looked at teh Scottish note, held it up to the light, looked at me, looked at the note again then said "have you got anything else". No i said ( I did but wasn't telling her). Oh well do you have a card she said. Yes, i did but wanted to pay cahs, "It's our policy not to accept these kind of notes".
So, me being me and being downright awkward, said "what kind of notes, it is a sterling note, it clearly says on it "promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of £5.oo" ".
She said it was their policy not to accept Scottish notes.
I did ask her how on earth they managed with their stores in places like Glasgow, Edinburgh Dundee , where every customer would have scottish money and did they just refuse to serve them.
Then i walked out.
I had a bad day anyway (see other thread) and this was the final straw.
I feel like writing a letter to their head offcie and telling them they have a daft policy.

Policy not to accept Scottish notes my arse! Should have asked her if it was company policy not to accept legal tender.

stupid people!yanbu.its money!!!!!!

Superdrug don't take them either. I was in there the other day and the cashier went to hand me one and got a rollicking from her manager for accepting it in the first place.

apparently (accroding to some chick on R2) scottish notes are not techinically legal tender. And it is at a shops disgression what notes they do/don't accept. and it's all perfectly legel.

i'll just add here: what a bunch of bastards.

I'm pretty sure that they can't refuse to take them, it's legal tender.
I'm feeling suitably combatative today, give the fiver to me and I'll take it down there and get them to take it

Definitely complain, they should have accepted it. IT's true that they're not technically legal tender but similarly English notes are not strictly legal tender in Scotland and they are never refused!

purplemonkey - I believe that English notes aren't actually legal tender in Scotland (or wales for that matter)either but I've never yet seen anyone in a Scottish shop hold an English tenner up to the light and look at it, then wave it around at other staff saying "can we accept these" before then saying "sorry we don't take them"

My local bakery has a sign up apologising for the fact taht they will not take scottish notes. Explaining that there has been a rush of forgeries lately.
But then I remember when I was a student in glasgow always trying to get rid of the scottish notes before I came home for holidays as for some reason scottish £20 notes were always viewed with maximum suspicion. Also, in those days there were still scottish £1 notes in circulation when the £1 coin had replaced notes in England.
I do think that a larger store, particularly one with shops across the whole of the UK, should accept all legal tender. I can see though that my local baker would be at greater risk of financial difficulties if they had a spate of accepted forged notes.

AH! see they never explained THAT bit on the radio. (obviously becuase they don't want to point out that the english are bastards about other people's money and we aren't)
not that i ever shop there anyway but Adams is now on THE LIST.

I'm tmepted now to annoy all teh shopstaff down here by getting my mum to send me lots of Royal Bank notes or Bank of Scotland notes or better still, Clydesdale bank ones and see what happens.
I am surprised though as in Cornwall and Devon they have taken them before without any question and down here, where there is a large military community, many of whom will go back and forth to scotland I would have thought they would accept them

Have just remembered though that the student union and some pubs had signs up saying no to english £20 notes. Think again was because of forgeries. Or maybe just tit for tat Fair enough really.

I think an alarm would go off before you even got into the shop if you had clydesdale notes!
I do remember being rather confused when I first got to university that there were different bank notes, RBS and Clydesdale. But I got over it.

They are being arses, but they are perfectly within their rights to refuse to accept it, legal tender or not. Retailers don't have to accept any form of payment they don't like the look of - neither are they legally obliged to sell anything to anyone if they don't want to. However, if they want to piss off their customers that's their problem! I would write - they might offer you vouvhers or something as a goodwill gesture!

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Scottish banknotes are unusual in that they are technically not legal tender anywhere in the UK ? not even in Scotland ? they are in fact promissory notes. Indeed, no banknotes (even Bank of England notes) are now legal tender in Scotland. Nevertheless, like debit cards and credit cards, they are used as money because they are commonly understood and agreed to be money.[19] Despite this, Scottish-issued notes are sometimes refused in England and Wales and are not always accepted by banks and exchange bureaus outside of the United Kingdom. This is particularly true in the case of the Royal Bank of Scotland £1 note, which is the only £1 note to remain in circulation within the UK

we used to get into bother when we'd go back to canada with scottish notes. the banks would have to do them seperately from the english notes. we just thought they were being wankers!

Scots get really arsey about shops in England which won't take Scottish notes. But just try spending a Norn Irish note up here ... let alone a Manx one ...

Go to St Andrews or Leuchars - they are used to NI notes there. I used to get them from the local cashpoint regularly, and spend them no bother. it's all teh military personnel coming backand the students that bring them over from NI

How are they going to cope if we get the Euro in this country? Most of the Euro coins I've seen all look different since they're minted in different countries .

Having said that....I tend to waltz into banks with Scottish notes and demand they change them for English notes if I get one out of a cash point purely to avoid this problem in shops. Tis similar with Channel Island money and getting it accepted in the UK - they had £1 notes there long after the UK had abolished ours.

I read this week that it's because it's the banks that issue notes here - not the treasury. So, say the Clydesdale (bunch of wan*ers) or the RBS had the same trouble as Northern Rock, technically they could fold and the notes would be valueless.

Agree it's a stupid policy though. I got six £1 notes in my change today. It's the first time in months that I've had a pound note.

I've seen 2 £100 notes this week. (haven't seen them since I was a child)

I have more chance of seeing a Scottish forged £20 than an English one. Lots of small shops refuse them locally.

daft daft policy.

however, when i was visiting scotland a few years ago i did have a scottish taxi driver refuse to take an english £10 as payment

you saw £100 notes as a child?

I think I've only seen a couple of £50 notes and I am 35. A friend used to keep one in his wallet to wave at bar-people. They came over out of interest or imagining a shipping order worth of drinks whereupon when they went to the optics for the first few, he swapped it for a £10 . I saw him jump many a queue with that.

Thinking about it, I wonder it was a photocopy .

A Scottish £100 note - yes my dad once showed me one. I thought he had won top prize on the Pools.

I didn't even know that there were £100 notes.